Example sentences of "[conj] put [pron] [prep] an " in BNC.

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1 Some furnishings , pot-holders and ornaments have a very strong-smelling varnish coating , particularly cheap bamboo products with a glossy surface If you have any items of this sort , banish them or put them in an airtight container .
2 and put them through an educational programme as a conditional of a probation order .
3 You do n't hurl them through space and put them through an electric field and a magnetic field and the rest of it .
4 As I clambered into the boat , moored near her big yacht , Lucy took the bottles of beer and Coca-Cola and put them into an open net bag which she lowered over the side , tying the net with a long rope to a hook on the gunwale .
5 He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash .
6 He clipped the sheets together and put them into an envelope .
7 On Dec. 16 the Netherlands authorities expelled 43 Russian Jews and put them on an aeroplane to Israel after their applications for asylum were turned down ; a further nine were expelled on Dec. 23 .
8 All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ .
9 He took five pips from an orange and put them in an envelope .
10 I was bleeding from a laceration on my scalp and was so drunk that I had no recollection of what had happened ; a Sergeant quizzed me closely and seeing that I was incapable of speech , took me downstairs and put me into an ambulance .
11 So they took me into care and put me in an assessment centre in Sydenham Hill for six months .
12 She left cash for the telephone , erring in favour of overpayment , and put it in an envelope by the phone .
13 And then he would fold it very carefully and put it in an envelope and then slit the flap he 'd he 'd not seal the envelope .
14 Sandison folded the letter into a small rectangle and put it inside an envelope which he addressed .
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