Example sentences of "put [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place .
2 Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them .
3 I mean the old index-linked certificates , when they came up I put them back into the fourth issue , and then the fifth issue and so on because the bonuses are better .
4 Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’
5 he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year .
6 ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy .
7 When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on .
8 I 'm terribly lazy and always put it off until the last minute . ’
9 We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside
10 I I think the best thing to do with the flutes is to put them along with the first
11 I 've had to put it together over the last three days .
12 McCarrick put them ahead in the eighth minute and they should have settled it in the 67th when Muir had a penalty saved , but Rimmer made no mistake from the spot to level the scores in the 83rd minute .
13 If your marriage is on the rocks , the thing to do is throw a wobbly on a motorway at night so that your husband will put you out at the next lay-by .
14 Horne should have increased Everton 's lead when Ebbrell 's ball put him through in the 62nd minute but he delayed too long .
15 If anybody put him off at the 17th it was me jumping up and down .
16 He finished on the rostrum in three of the first four GPs ( ignition failure put him out of the fourth ) and he beat John Kocinski in stunning style to win the fifth GP of the season at the Nurburgring .
17 I remember on one occasion the four of us went down to Glastonbury Fair where he sang , but due to a balls-up over the sound and the electricity , they did n't put him on until the next day and that was at about 5.00 in the morning when the sun came through .
18 The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over .
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