Example sentences of "they put [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He thought , when this Lieutenant Colonel came back to him and said , oh my God the police budget 's in problems , we 've got em here , that they put something onto the council agenda .
2 I mean they put something round the mother 's tummy and they can see the heart beat beating , whereas we , if we wanted to know if the baby was alright and er it was n't getting distressed you 'd just put a , a cloth on the mummy 's tum and put your ear down to it and hear it that way .
3 During the autumn and winter of that dramatic year they put themselves at the forefront of agitation for more effective air raid precautions , and used their influence in the war factories to defend workers ’ living standards while criticizing the inefficiency of management .
4 This does not mean that they put themselves into the hands of an absolute authority .
5 ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab .
6 Started at that 's right , yes and er I did and er they put me in the machine shop filing keyhole and Those times they had to be all cast over the rim locks and all that , now they 've made for us and all that .
7 And they put me in the banqueting room , erm but we could n't , d' ya know .
8 They put me in the bin because I suddenly had a talking jag , ’ Edward said .
9 They put me in the prison hospital .
10 and they 've I gave them to them and they put them on the hedges
11 But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop .
12 I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar !
13 And if they died , we us I helping my moni my Mother many at time , to wash them down , before they put them in the coffins .
14 ‘ Then they put them in the sun to dry out , and when the meat curls away from the shell it 's put into sacks .
15 They they put him on the rail they tied him to the railway track so he 'd get run over by a train but I do n't think he did .
16 Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week .
17 He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him .
18 They put us in the back .
19 When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women .
20 Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go .
21 Then they put us in the block .
22 They wheel you over and they put you in the bath and they start stripping off your bandages which is absolute agony .
23 That was recommended to the employers , the employers said yes , that 's the action they would take , they put it to the trustees , the trustees agreed it and that was it .
24 They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers .
25 they put it on the drive for
26 Well at the time they put it on the market we , we all three thought that it would be a good idea if , if both families sold up and moved into something smaller and perhaps moved near to each other
27 but she had drapes and that to buy herself and , and they put it on the frame and she ca n't get into her drawers on bed , so they 're no good
28 So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden .
29 The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er
30 They put it under the fire .
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