Example sentences of "[noun] put [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors put it to us that every individual has a comfortable , or ‘ setpoint ’ , weight , around which our bodies naturally fluctuate . |
| 2 | It 's just that most offices put them in the open near the coffee machine or the Ladies loo and anybody can see what 's coming over . |
| 3 | Popular images of parent-child relationships put them in a special category , distinct from other kin relationships , and suggest that this is where we will find the strongest feelings of duty and obligation . |
| 4 | But 30 young drivers put themselves through it to try and win the title best young motorist . |
| 5 | Why did Granddad put it in a dump or of the pocket ? |
| 6 | Although there is much in these three books to put them in the category of Ruritanian adventure , Scott may be a stronger influence . |
| 7 | He would need to be continually finding opportunities to put himself on display to the populace : walkabouts , tours of business premises and factories and farms , appearances in pubs and clubs , visits to colleges and hospitals and homes for the elderly , attendances at all sorts of social functions and ceremonies — the list could be endless . |
| 8 | Indeed , you 'd do the girl more kindness to put her in your dairy , for she 'll be utterly spoiled for any useful purpose . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She was in each morning like a circus trainer to put him through his routine . |
| 11 | You 'd like that , would n't you , Leith ? ’ he had the unmitigated nerve to put her on the spot . |
| 12 | It 's very much the last attempt — not er , not for , from the point of view of negotiating or er , but , but simply a matter of fact , er we need erm we need to move , we need to have additional sources of , sources of income , that er the type of facility that we 're looking to build will give the club to put it on a firm financial footing , and at the same time to give the local people of the City and er the , the surrounding County er tremendous new facilities . |
| 13 | After the Istanbul Biennale last autumn , it is the turn of the Greek art dealers to make a bid to put themselves on the international map . |
| 14 | Mistakenly thinking it would do no harm to put her at her ease — she was a plain woman with the faintest smell of spirits on her breath even at ten o'clock in the morning — he had mentioned the interesting photographs hung on the stairway leading to the stalls . |
| 15 | Their personal safety was guaranteed by an old-fashioned exchange of hostages : senior Iraqis travelled to Arbil to put themselves in Kurdish hands — taking a risk , given Mr Hussein 's record in disposing of unwanted colleagues . |
| 16 | His hands moved to her shoulders to put her from him , then he released her abruptly before turning to walk along the path . |
| 17 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 18 | The only , the , there is only the project engineer can get into the databases to put anything in , or , or their clerical support , to get anything into the general notes about that particular |
| 19 | If you own Local Authority Solicitor or Careers Adviser is unable to satisfy your need for information , ask your Careers Adviser to put you in touch with one of the County or District Council Liaison Officers appointed for your particular teaching establishment . |
| 20 | Fairness to his creditors demands that he should not be able to deplete his assets in this way in a deliberate attempt to put them beyond the reach of his creditors . |
| 21 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 22 | To Montano , Iago lies that Cassio is always drunk , and professes to ‘ fear the trust Othello puts him in ’ ( 121–31 ) . |
| 23 | As the Local Government Chronicle put it in its leading article of 1 November : ’ To introduce poll tax is a mistake , to bring in council tax is a disaster . ’ |
| 24 | A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans . |
| 25 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 26 | In fact , I can describe his manner at that moment no better than the way Miss Kenton puts it in her letter ; it was indeed ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 27 | The transfers by Ward Marston sound very good , but any sonic limitations are in any event soon forgotten , so completely does Stokowski put you under the music 's spell . |
| 28 | I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts . |
| 29 | I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and |
| 30 | — holding this second baby Ellen puts me in mind more and more of Oreste and I grieve to have him . |