Example sentences of "put [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had the most ghastly pallor , Sabine thought , racing to fetch her jacket from the car and put it under the older woman 's head as a pillow . |
| 2 | They put it on a bigger scale but the entertainment far below ours ! |
| 3 | Cromwell , the head of state in the Republic , encouraged a reorganization of the East India Company , with a new charter which put it on a firmer basis . |
| 4 | No , I 've been and spoken to them again this morning and yesterday , R S C left it there not O S D although it 's O S D's van , so they should 've come out to move it on Friday and the mechanics did n't turn up , then they lost the keys , cos yesterday myself and who was it , Lyn , waited up for the keys cos they were gon na move down put it into a safer spot . |
| 5 | Firstly , although Wessel ( 1797 ) and Argand ( 1806 ) had tried to make complex numbers a little more respectable by showing how to interpret them , their addition and multiplication geometrically , there remained , possibly because of doubts concerning the intuitive use of geometrical arguments , the desire to put them on a firmer basis . |
| 6 | It measured up to precisely what he felt himself and he decided to put it to a higher power . |
| 7 | Their high delinquency level also puts them at a further distance . |
| 8 | Try some of our treats — they 'll put you in a better mood without spoiling your figure |
| 9 | Clement 's prose puts him in a higher class than any of his extant pagan contemporaries , and he was able obliquely to refute pagan critics ( such as Celsus , writing 177–80 ) who thought Christians an anti-cultural lot , by decorating his pages with a rich variety of quotations and allusions taken from classical poetry and philosophy . |
| 10 | Oh , I might , thought Lydia , but she said : ‘ I did n't poison Betty either ’ , in a childishly defensive way which put her in a worse mood . |
| 11 | Chairman Alan Brooker believes the company 's increased size has put it in a better position to win larger , long-term contracts , in line with DCM 's stated policy , and should lead to improved margins and faster growth . |
| 12 | As far as overall weight is concerned , it 's surprisingly manageable and its size puts it into the larger car boot category for transport . |
| 13 | There is a ‘ barrier ’ between the attractive and the unattractive — between , as Graham puts it on a later occasion , the ‘ beggars ’ and ‘ choosers ’ of the sexual life . |