Example sentences of "put [pron] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got half a dozen drunks and three women dressed as Mother Christmas and put them on a truck and we drove round the West End on the busiest shopping day of the year playing loud jazz and bunging up the traffic . |
| 2 | Put them on a window-sill and water them every two or three days . |
| 3 | Cos what I 'm doing , I put them on a series and keeping them for revision . |
| 4 | She made a chicken salad and poured herself a glass of chilled white wine , then put them on a tray and took them into her sitting room . |
| 5 | Put them on a list and wait . |
| 6 | So do you want to copy this number down onto one label for each category and then put them into a bag and then But before Now wait a minute , wait a minute . |
| 7 | Put them into a product and you can take out most of the preservatives . ’ |
| 8 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 9 | Strain them ( keep the liquid — it will make a good basis for a vegetable soup ) , put them in a bowl and while still hot stir in plenty of olive oil , sliced onion , garlic , parsley , and a little vinegar . |
| 10 | Low stated that , if any Croats escaped into Austria , " we would guard them , disarm them , put them in a camp and later return them to Yugoslavia " . |
| 11 | His view was that Hollywood could never make such a picture ‘ simply because in all America you could hardly collect a hundred actors and put them in a picture and keep them from acting ’ . |
| 12 | The horse under me got upset and started bucking , and there were suddenly sheep everywhere , but he calmly rounded them up , put them in a corner and sat watching them . ’ |
| 13 | just put them in a pan and cook 'em |
| 14 | Among his most celebrated compositions were 0'0 ’ ( 1962 ) for which he chopped vegetables , put them in a blender and drank the juice , and the 4'33 ’ ( 1952 ) which required the performer to remain onstage , silent and immobile for four minutes , thirty-three seconds . |
| 15 | they 'll just er stick them put them in a box and sling them you see |
| 16 | And finally , the expert again we spoke about that , a good example really is in the computer world where you have individuals who get on really well with computers and programming but put them in a group and they really do n't provide any in fact if anything they take away from the group . |
| 17 | and put them in a boat and bring them back ? |
| 18 | To eliminate the problems of prostitution , they sometimes take the women from the cell , put them in an ambulance and drive them over the border to Honduras . |
| 19 | Then they put me in a room and asked me questions . |
| 20 | He told me that if you put one in a box and tapped on the lid , it would knock back , thinking you were another beetle offering itself in marriage . ’ |
| 21 | Put her in a hole and stoned her and covered her up with earth before she was dead . |
| 22 | When we brought him here , we put him under an anaesthetic and then cut the wire down here . ’ |
| 23 | We put him in a tent but he found the sensation of being , as he put it , sealed up so distressing that the idea had to be abandoned . |
| 24 | Henry took the heavily laden tray from Peggy 's hands and put it on a side-table as Lizzie said , ‘ Did she have her dinner and tea all at once ? ’ |
| 25 | If the film was , say , Old Mother Riley Goes to Paris , you 'd have three of your doormen dressed up as Old Mother Riley , which was a very cheap costume to hire , and you 'd build an Eiffel Tower , put it on a barrow and go round the town during the busy shopping time . |
| 26 | Put it on a plate and find a quiet place to sit where you will not be disturbed by other people , by the radio or by the telephone . |
| 27 | Why did Granddad put it in a dump or of the pocket ? |
| 28 | You take the card back next time and they put it in a machine and add more points to it . |
| 29 | We have to get special stuff called bulb fibre and wet it and put it in a bowl and then we plant our bulbs in it . ’ |
| 30 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |