Example sentences of "[coord] put [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Simply take something off or put something on , and your companion will never know the real reason you stopped .
2 Even if I can get rid of the the tour operators erm or put somebody like onto because we got up and running now and I have n't got anyone to deal with it
3 One 's called the Austin Special , and it 's really cool-looking with three hotted-up Danelectro-style lipstick tube pickups that you can either run as single-coils for that crinkly kind of clarity , or put them together for a humbucking sound .
4 " [ T ] he language of an exemption clause is prima facie to be construed against the person who drafted it or put it forward … [ and ] the language of an exemption clause must be sufficiently explicit to disclose the common intention of the parties without straining the language " ( Cumming-Bruce LJ in Acme Transport Co Ltd v Betts [ 1991 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 131 ) .
5 ‘ She said I 'd have to pay the full amount or put it back in the freezer , ’ said Mr Parker , of York .
6 Sometimes he picked something up , squatting on heels to examine it , then slipped it into a bag that hung from his shoulder ; or put it down again , going on .
7 Never throw a fork or spade or put it down near your feet .
8 And , or put it down the cellar in the
9 or put it down the cellar , you see , out the way .
10 Then make a Jelly with pipins & put them in .
11 Quite simply , these are times when there is more healing to be done , more effort is required by the natural healing powers to maintain order or to put it slightly differently , it is no longer possible for a balance and harmony to be sustained without the production of symptoms of disease .
12 Or to put it differently , he saw in nature a storehouse of artistic forms .
13 Second and equally important , as Fratter ( 1989 ) also asks , can parents release and mourn a child to whom they are attached or to put it more bluntly , can parents mourn a child that is not dead ?
14 But with those grown to man 's estate , I think he fails ; he failed with me , or to put it more correctly , I failed with him .
15 Secondly , it will go , in accordance with the voter 's intention , to his next-preference candidate , or to put it more accurately — since it can not go to a candidate already elected or eliminated — to his next available preference .
16 What is tying these together is an ideal , or to put it more concretely , a certain position associated with some alienated intellectuals in late capitalist society .
17 Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time .
18 Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit .
19 Unless you 're a chicken , or to put it boldly , animals have rights too !
20 Perhaps the most interesting property of all , though , is that the range of sizes present at any one point in an air-fall pumice deposit is rather restricted , so that the fragments tend to be all more or less the same size , or to put it formally , the deposit is said to be well-sorted .
21 ‘ I 'm sure the manager knows that if I keep playing the way I am then he 's either going to have to let me go or put me in . ’
22 ‘ I 'm sure the manager knows that if I keep playing the way I am then he 's either going to have to let me go or put me in . ’
23 Or put him there , ’ she agreed wryly .
24 No detractor however imaginative or ingenious could find anything that would pain him or put him out of countenance .
25 Particularly if there 's any suggestion that anything a bit like hypnosis has been used um this er business of of well it must be the therapist making them up or putting them up to it in some way becomes a particular argument that 's raised quite often .
26 Urging them on or putting them down .
27 Ridding yourself of clutter does not just mean organising things into tidy piles , it means either being properly rid of them or putting them in or on something — like shelves .
28 I had to say something humorous without being a smart-ass or putting her down in any way .
29 They were n't used to doing this kind of thing — they were n't used to rock and roll or putting something up and taking it down every day , so really it was a white elephant from the beginning .
30 The GDR 's choice is between dealing with chaos quickly and overcoming it or putting it off .
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