Example sentences of "[pron] have put a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then I was showered with the realisation that I had spent half a working day thinking these thoughts , during which time , if I had put a foot wrong , I would have immediately proved , to some people 's satisfaction , the innate unsuitability of women for this kind of work ; and that clinched it ; and I wrote the letter and confirmed the complaint .
2 I had put a point to the unions concerning long-term pay arrangements on which she had neither been informed nor consulted .
3 If I had put a tea cosy on my head I would have been a dead ringer for Mrs Pankhurst , but it affected my behaviour even more than my looks .
4 I 've put a message down the place .
5 I 've put a plaster on like that .
6 I 've put a vertebrae out .
7 I 've used certain Hendrix lyrics and poems throughout the exhibition and I get grief from Fairchild if I 've put a comma in the wrong place .
8 But I 've put a plan of the Lab in my office for you .
9 as oh that 's good , I feel that they 're now acid and alkalis , seem to be important , I 've done I 've put a lot of effort into them , maybe just a quick glance at those occasionally to keep up to date .
10 I 've put a lot of time and effort into them and I 'll not allow you or anyone else to change them ! ’
11 I 've put a lot of work into the last few days . ’
12 I 've put a lid on it anyway
13 I 've put a list up erm for the things that I want for my birthday .
14 I 've put a sprinkling of brown sugar and a dash of milk on it .
15 Er , I 've put a cloth on the top of it cos we 'd only put it in on the Tuesday and it was wet through on the top !
16 I 've put a note on my door saying , ‘ If you 've got problems , please do n't come today because I 'm not in the mood . ’
17 For their telephone number I 've just put a question mark and I 've put a note here to say I was internally transferred .
18 Erm , what I 've done is , I 've put a label in the cell .
19 Erm , I 've put a label A B C , in one cell , D E F in another cell , and in this cell B five , I 've got the formula , plus the three ampersand B four , and th the result of it is this longer label , if you join the two labels together to make this label A B C D E F. Anybody using ampersand at all ?
20 Your son 's got more sense than me , look I 've put a coat on I 'm sitting here sweating
21 If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical .
22 It was hard to hear what was being said , but someone had put a nail through a pipe .
23 I mean I have put a payment in , i it 's not as though I did n't , I mean that was quite easy mistake to make , to me .
24 and I have put a question er a ring and a question mark
25 The other thing one can do is once again increasingly to use food that we , ourselves , can not or will not use , and the imposition of quotas which has put a degree of extensification on dairy production , has in fact encouraged this trend .
26 Section 239 gives the court a like power in respect of a transaction by a company which has put a creditor or guarantor into a better position in the event of the company going into insolvent liquidation than otherwise would have been the case .
27 If somebody had put a match to it , it up there you see , it would then come under S S A ,
28 It felt like somebody had put a gun to his kneecap , said David Lawrence today as he came from his bed at the hospital in Wellington to meet reporters .
29 Somebody had put a notice inside the glass , ‘ Closed indefinitely ’ .
30 Well no , knowing our it 's probably the er electricity board 's come along , to read the meter , somebody 's put a screw in it , and they 've got a crowbar and just opened it up .
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