Example sentences of "put it [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry took the heavily laden tray from Peggy 's hands and put it on a side-table as Lizzie said , ‘ Did she have her dinner and tea all at once ? ’ |
| 2 | If the film was , say , Old Mother Riley Goes to Paris , you 'd have three of your doormen dressed up as Old Mother Riley , which was a very cheap costume to hire , and you 'd build an Eiffel Tower , put it on a barrow and go round the town during the busy shopping time . |
| 3 | Put it on a plate and find a quiet place to sit where you will not be disturbed by other people , by the radio or by the telephone . |
| 4 | Why did Granddad put it in a dump or of the pocket ? |
| 5 | You take the card back next time and they put it in a machine and add more points to it . |
| 6 | We have to get special stuff called bulb fibre and wet it and put it in a bowl and then we plant our bulbs in it . ’ |
| 7 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 8 | Once in , they had to dive for a golf ball , put it in a bucket and return to the trapeze to do it all again — fun eh ! |
| 9 | They put it in a bath and filmed it from above the surface of the water as it moved feebly about , but they were unable to get any detailed shots . |
| 10 | And erm well we wrapped up a whole pile of paper for paper paper recycling and erm we mushed it up and the best of the stuff we put in the liquidizer and erm we put it in a tank and dyed left some stuff as it were and we dyed some other stuff green . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 12 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 13 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 14 | Put it in a jar and at the end of the year we 'll give you the money . |
| 15 | Put it in a basin and |
| 16 | And then he would fold it very carefully and put it in an envelope and then slit the flap he 'd he 'd not seal the envelope . |
| 17 | Then she wrote out a cheque in payment of the forgotten parking-ticket , put it in an envelope and went out . |
| 18 | Rhubarb fool is made in just the same way as gooseberry fool , but needs an even larger proportion of sugar , preferably dark brown , and it is very necessary when the rhubarb is cooked to put it in a colander or sieve and let the excess juice drain off before the purée is made and the cream added . |
| 19 | Although truth criteria and the rules of discourse vary across disciplines , members are obliged to speak the truth as they see it , to put it in a form that other members of the discipline will comprehend , and to mean what they say . |
| 20 | Mr Duckett says : ‘ However poor the local infrastructure , with VSAT you can lay in the communications by literally packaging up the dish , putting it on a lorry and sending it to the site . |
| 21 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere saving of time in a library and taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or erm a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 22 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere erm saving of time in a librarian taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 23 | On the facts of the two cases it was unnecessary to decide whether , as argued by Mr. Jeffreys , the mere taking of the article from the shelf and putting it in a trolley or other receptacle amounted to the assumption of one of the rights of the owner , and hence an appropriation . |
| 24 | But those symbols of fire and of wind are useful because when we say God is in us , when we say the Holy Spirit is in us , we ca n't actually grab anything and say you know we ca n't actually put it on a video and say , that little bit to the right of my heart is the Holy Spirit . |
| 25 | Alternatively , you could put it in a pot and grow sweet peas in it , or lettuce or house plants . |
| 26 | Supposing I wanted a bit , do you put it in a thing and get some whiskers and then just plant it later ? |
| 27 | so , so then Anita goes , no I go tell him to put it in a letter then , yeah , and he was gon na put it in a letter and then he changed his mind and he said he was gon na ask me after school , but then he did n't ask me after school and Kate gave him my phone number and then he phoned me |
| 28 | er , you see , he never said owt he just says , I 'm gon na put it in an envelope and get it down to her but he never said how . |
| 29 | Perhaps Jamie dropped it on a visit to Puddephat 's rooms , and Puddephat put it in a drawer until he saw him again . |
| 30 | He put it in a nutshell when he said she was the sort of girl who , if there had been a meadow handy , would have been out there in a flash picking cowslips . |