Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] put [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts decided readily enough that in this instance the offence is one requiring proof of mens rea ; ‘ the gist of the offence to my mind lies in the intention with which the thing is done , ’ as Darling J. put it . |
| 2 | ‘ Easy money , ’ is how 19-year-old Pascale puts it . |
| 3 | But happy Harry put it out of his mind as he planted a smacker on his new date at a New York film premiere . |
| 4 | As one DCSL put it : |
| 5 | As one DCSL put it : |
| 6 | First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header . |
| 7 | The doctor stayed for another hour , gave Cora-Beth the promised sedative and a tearful Becky put her to bed . |
| 8 | ‘ In the past ’ , as G. M. Trevelyan put it , ‘ poverty had been an individual misfortune ; now it was a group grievance ’ . |