Example sentences of "put [pers pn] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 32 | And when he 'd finished and been weighed again and she 'd changed his diaper and put it in the special container to go away for the chemical analysis — And a nasty old job that must be to do ! |
| 33 | I took the cheque , folded it and put it in the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 34 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 35 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |
| 36 | So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester . |
| 37 | And just to put them in the right mood , they have now been invited to take part in an international competition at Market Drayton next weekend ( June 19–20 ) involving the United States junior team , Eire and Great Britain juniors . |
| 38 | So they do have to put it in the individual enquiry ? |
| 39 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 40 | But even that performance is only sufficient to put it in the middle ranking of the world 's stock markets . |
| 41 | You told me to put it in the safe place . |
| 42 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 43 | And coach Bill Calcraft , a lock in Australia 's 1984 Grand Slam-winning team , agrees : ‘ If we can get promotion , and it 's a big if because this season only one club goes up , I do believe the club , with all its superb facilities and tradition , can attract the players to put it in the top flight again . ’ |
| 44 | We did not really listen , but it helped to put us in the right mood . |
| 45 | He put them in the warm water . |
| 46 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
| 47 | I could not pursue a conversation that would put me in the degrading position of having to ask Otto to fill in further gaps in my knowledge and understanding of my own lover . |
| 48 | ‘ For putting me in the right frame of mind for facing that rat Silvio . |
| 49 | And , as Dalgliesh had heard him argue , for all their demands for equality of status and opportunity , putting them in the front line behind the riot shields , taking the petrol bombs , the hurled stones and now the bullets , only made the job of their male colleagues even more onerous . |
| 50 | We got ta put them in the deep fat fryer . |
| 51 | I 'll put them in the deep part . |
| 52 | Put the rest of them , I mean , i , i , i , in the storage binder or you know , or you can obviously put them in the active binder if you want to do . |
| 53 | Could I put them in the soft box ? |
| 54 | This puts them in the international master category , with the equivalent of a fide rating of 2000 . |
| 55 | Dumbo puts me in the front passenger seat and seats himself behind . |
| 56 | A good position at the start line will put you in the front rank on the first leg |
| 57 | This runs the batch file which will put you in the correct subdirectory and run the program . |
| 58 | We often feel like one of the black sheep of the independent sector — accepting a licence fee puts you in the not-serious programme makers ' league . |
| 59 | The court had taken Harvey away from his father and put him in the foster home ‘ until such time as the father can control his drinking and make a safe home for the boy . ’ |
| 60 | Leithers will give the Prime Minister a warm welcome , but they will put him in the hot seat because of mass unemployment , homelessness and general misery , which have been experienced not just in my constituency , but throughout Britain . |