Example sentences of "[conj] put in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask your local delicatessen to keep the end of a new Parma ham for you , or put in a bid for the unsliceable knuckle end . |
| 2 | ‘ She would either have to be carried or put in a wheelchair . |
| 3 | The steward of a lordship or the master of the royal game might guard the Crown 's interests as a landlord — or put in a deputy to do so but he was not concerned with the collection of taxes , the maintenance of order , and the execution of justice . |
| 4 | Ca n't we sell them ours and put in a new one |
| 5 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 6 | And nerves too when you have a finger whose paralysed and could n't remove it and put in a nerve and then they could work again . |
| 7 | I 'll come and put in a couple of hours , so you can get a bit more comfortable . ’ |
| 8 | So it 's worth asking around , and putting in a bit of homework before choosing your solicitor . |
| 9 | In this instance the individual exhibited items are unnumbered and put in a check list ; the main critical writing is within 136 pages , written in ten sections by Judith E. Stein ( six sections ) and Ann-Sargent Wooster ( four sections on video ) . |
| 10 | Used correctly , you should n't have to bend your back during general digging , although it wo n't lift out the soil and put in a barrow if you need to move it ! |
| 11 | The figure , which is slightly damaged , was made during the Tang dynasty ( 681-907 AD ) , and put in a tomb . |
| 12 | * Instead of rinsing your pasta after cooking , drain it and put in a serving dish or back in the saucepan , then add a few knobs of soft butter . |
| 13 | Slip the whole tray into a clear polythene bag , and put in a warm and light position . |
| 14 | She rubbed out the twisting horizontal line and put in a short straight one . |
| 15 | Other mornings it had been rolled up and put in a plastic case within minutes of my getting out of it . |
| 16 | Now in the UK we have laws which prevent most wild birds from being taken and put in a cage . |
| 17 | I took this bandage off and put a cold compress on , making a proper patella dressing , got the ambulance and got him off to hospital , and put in a Report about this broken gas-lid . |
| 18 | BHC cut the machine in half and put in a central section to carry more cars and passengers . |
| 19 | Mr John Cleese , the icon , has revealed that when his mother dies he intends to ‘ have her stuffed and put in a glass case in his front hall . ’ |
| 20 | On the eve of the 24 June names are written on paper , folded and put in a bowl of water . |
| 21 | Bernard excised it and put in a piece of nylon . ’ |
| 22 | Hullabaloo had ideas of his own and put in a short one . |
| 23 | ‘ And at a time when we need the PA more than ever , with all those Eurocrats around and so many other pressures on the PA and the trade generally , we need people who will come forward and put in a bit of time . ’ |
| 24 | The container itself is then covered with black plastic sheet , or glass and brown paper , and put in a warm place , as with the cuttings . |
| 25 | Those skins are going to be shipped home and stuffed with sawdust and put in a glass case in our museum . |
| 26 | I simply write to Madame Tussaud 's and put in a list of requests for figures . ’ |
| 27 | Because it 's small , the Coles decorated their bathroom in light colours and put in a white suite and white tiles . |
| 28 | I did n't bother the milkman , but a lady kindly came and put in a little battery — and then the neighbours adjusted it and got it going . |
| 29 | She ripped out the paper and put in a fresh sheet . |
| 30 | Confusion occurs when the student is taken out of the ‘ rut ’ , so to speak , and put in a situation where he has to execute flawless techniques from many different angles . |