Example sentences of "put [pers pn] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philby claimed he thoughtfully put them on the right track to divert suspicion from himself . |
| 2 | Unless I put them on the outside wood . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't wash your feet and put them on the dirty floor , do you ? ’ he asked as he got ready for the guests who would soothe the painful passage towards the critics . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's definitely put me on the right tracks for the future . |
| 5 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 6 | Then she walked with me to a bus stop — I had to take one step every two minutes , and that in slow motion — waited with me , put me on the right bus and reminded the conductor where to let me out . |
| 7 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
| 8 | If you put it on the right feet it 's clearly one of the best available . |
| 9 | LEFT Especially if you are not used to fitting a check chain , take care to ensure that you put it on the right way round . |
| 10 | But make sure we put it on the right side though ! |
| 11 | So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it |
| 12 | ‘ We did not want the burden of administration falling on the taxpayer so we put it on the prime beneficiary , which is the farmer himself . ’ |
| 13 | The Rosewood 's very close to a Jazzmaster sometimes , actually , because it 's very sweet ; when you put it on the front pickup it 's very mellow . |
| 14 | When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove . |
| 15 | He removed the vase and put it on the occasional table next to the wedding photograph . |
| 16 | I 've done m is there , are there any gaps in between , if you put it on the good quality like , can you see any spaces ? |
| 17 | So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom . |
| 18 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 19 | This appears to put him on the right side of the new rulers , even if Steaua were answerable to one of Ceausescu 's brothers . |
| 20 | You would n't mind if he married your daughter , but you would n't want to put him on the front page . |
| 21 | ‘ There is a big future for this club , and I intend to put it on the right footing . |
| 22 | Putting them up in the wires and other men putting them on the hot plates to fire . |
| 23 | After emancipation the state could transform recruitment by enlisting more people each year but putting them on the reserve list much sooner . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's the worst thing for a hangover and could put you on the slippery slope to alcoholism , ’ warns the magazine . |
| 25 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
| 26 | What Hornung had done was to take his brother-in-law 's famous detective , Sherlock Holmes , and put him on the wrong side of the law ; a friendly dedication acknowledged the debt . |
| 27 | To hell with reason , she was scared today : what if she 'd lost her way , and nothing could put her on the right track . |
| 28 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 29 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 30 | They 've put him on the top floor like the other ones we 've had . ’ |