Example sentences of "[prep] put the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By eight-thirty , after putting the army to rights , and warming ourselves on one cup of tea after another , we were too cold to stay up . |
| 2 | And er if you went quietly back after putting the feed out say before dark , put the feed down there and you went quietly back and watched them , you would n't believe how many would have been there . |
| 3 | But after putting the case as powerfully as I could — including some speculation about the alternative of an inefficient and out-of-date inspectorate — the point was conceded and the money found . |
| 4 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 5 | ‘ Had a good day ? ’ she called as Melissa closed the garage door after putting the car away . |
| 6 | Apparently erm , they often do this and of course , they sort of went into their home and got this girl with her friend and they sort of put the pegs on their noses and have these sort of rubber hats with those |
| 7 | He served with the Parliamentary army as a chaplain on two occasions , although he also disapproved of putting the king to death . |
| 8 | Thirty years on , English is a large and entrenched subject , and there is no likelihood of putting the clock back , and starting again in some other way : my proposal for a division between Cultural Studies and a degree in poetry is a pragmatic proposal for a way out of current difficulties . |
| 9 | They were therefore accused of putting the clock back and bringing the best hope of Christendom to an impasse . |
| 10 | The idea of putting the army on an island is preposterous . |
| 11 | This would definitely rule out the provision of tea or coffee , which would be seen as a way of putting the taxpayer at ease — which is the last thing the inspector would wish to achieve . |
| 12 | It is worth noting that this task of putting the UK economy in its international context is quite different from that of making international comparisons . |
| 13 | When they returned , there was the usual ritual of putting the shopping away . |
| 14 | The builders of the new machinery , principally the DES , do so with the good intention of putting the law into practice . |
| 15 | Yeah but its , you got ta try and give them instead of putting the law first , not |
| 16 | This way of putting the question reveals a sound judgement of the school curriculum : it has to be related to a child 's needs , and justified if and only if it satisfies those needs . |
| 17 | So what what I 'm that that that 's the sort of basic outline and I see it as an opportunity of putting the name in front of quite a lot of schools |
| 18 | When toilet training , a systematic approach of putting the child on the potty or the lavatory after each meal and before going to bed can start to establish a routine and pattern ( Levine and Bakow 1976 ) . |
| 19 | Roscarrock could ill afford it , but short of putting the child out in the street he had little alternative ; so they struck hands on it , and that evening , when the money had been paid over and a receipt obtained , Tristram returned home in the company of Jennifer Gristy to be greeted by his father 's stinging sarcasm . |
| 20 | While still a boy he submitted a model of a railway carriage to the Greenwich Railway Company , which adopted his method of putting the wheels under the carriages . |
| 21 | Racial and cultural difference are addressed in this context both as determinants in the production of meanings and as a means of putting the concerns of White Western feminist film criticism into perspective . |
| 22 | Instead of putting the phone down there and then she 'd listened , half-wishing she could have joined the escapade . |
| 23 | Vandals who put a gas cylinder on a railway line have been accused of putting the lives of two hundred people at risk . |
| 24 | Pitching : there are two methods of putting the tent up — either flysheet first , or you can leave the inner attached and put it up all in one . |
| 25 | This way of putting the hypothesis is useful in that it does two things . |
| 26 | Why is it that so many companies fail on the simple basic of putting the customer first |
| 27 | Now the Government choose to blame the European Commission instead of putting the blame where it rightly lies — on their own lack of support for the project . |
| 28 | ‘ The whole stupid , f—ing happy idea of putting the song on the album was to say something about struggle , ’ adds Fruitbat . |
| 29 | We have no intention of putting the success of that operation at risk because of the usual bungling by the authorities . ’ |
| 30 | The formalities of putting the Shell account into operation involve a minimum of paperwork . |