Example sentences of "put [pers pn] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 We could build a stable , put them at the bottom of the garden and how expensive the
2 But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop .
3 I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and
4 So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden .
5 But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without .
6 Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack
7 And you can mass type , erm mass headlines , and we do negative type leading and all the rest , but you have to add up that extra descender space and put it at the bottom of the headline .
8 Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen .
9 Connon picked up the plastic bag , opened it , put it at the edge of the table and swept the items into it with one efficient movement of his hand .
10 Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries .
11 He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government .
12 Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there .
13 And Taylor said : ‘ At last , our young players now have the facilities to put us at the top of the world game . ’
14 Now she has refined those skills with the help of judo and is putting them at the service of her country .
15 More than that , the caring crème de la crème were also confronted by the result of what had put them at the forefront of that generation in the first place : they were very good at what they did ( teaching , lecturing , theorizing , media of all kinds , creativity of all stripes ) , and they were becoming , perish the thought , Successful .
16 In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region .
17 In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region .
18 The key job , currently held by Michael Heseltine , would put him at the forefront of the drive to get the country back on course .
19 Bismarck 's aim was simply defined : to make Prussia the dominant state in Germany by putting her at the head of the vague movements for some form of unification which had arisen within the Confederation .
20 In making Gloucester chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , Edward was thus effectively putting him at the head of the surviving royal affinity there .
21 In making Gloucester chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , Edward was thus effectively putting him at the head of the surviving royal affinity there .
22 Graf is one of the world 's top tennis players whose supreme athleticism and guts have put her at the top of a very tough profession .
23 His new album Goodbye Jumbo seems to have put him at the top of the list of those eager to nominate a spokesman for the green generation .
24 Easy Over 's victory at Garthorpe puts him at the head of the area Young Horse title , and Shedid has increased her lead in the mares ' championship .
25 I mean , the the Tories are ready , should n't they complete to environmental issues , whereas every every public consultation or survey that ever carried out , demonstrates every time , that the public are very concerned that they 're , of the environment and they will put it at the top of the list , and I think our con the environment by having a dedicated Environment Officer proves our positive er commitment to the environment .
26 As his life-experience , including suffering , becomes integrated so he can put it at the disposal of others , explicitly and implicitly .
27 But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table .
28 well if you 'd of put it at the top of the basket , I would of seen it
29 The drifting phase of its life puts it at the mercy of all kinds of hungry animals , from other stationary filter-feeders to fish , so in order that its species shall survive , a mollusc must produce great numbers of eggs .
30 But even the refusal to talk about it , as Michel Foucault has noted , marks it as the secret and puts it at the heart of discourse .
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