Example sentences of "[noun] put [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It 's just that most offices put them in the open near the coffee machine or the Ladies loo and anybody can see what 's coming over .
2 Although there is much in these three books to put them in the category of Ruritanian adventure , Scott may be a stronger influence .
3 I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope .
4 You 'd like that , would n't you , Leith ? ’ he had the unmitigated nerve to put her on the spot .
5 After the Istanbul Biennale last autumn , it is the turn of the Greek art dealers to make a bid to put themselves on the international map .
6 The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement .
7 Fairness to his creditors demands that he should not be able to deplete his assets in this way in a deliberate attempt to put them beyond the reach of his creditors .
8 The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place .
9 The transfers by Ward Marston sound very good , but any sonic limitations are in any event soon forgotten , so completely does Stokowski put you under the music 's spell .
10 I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts .
11 I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and
12 On their return to Orkney , however , the Social Work Department put them into the Camoran Children 's Home in Kirkwall .
13 look , yes you are , you er , you 're mummy puts you in the front , but she 's a lot taller than I am , and she can tip it up easier , I need James in the front because he 's the lightest , you 're the heaviest
14 By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted .
15 In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region .
16 In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region .
17 Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water .
18 Injuries permitting , he should finish this season approaching 600 career games — with a tally of goals putting him among the 300-plus elite .
19 In Chile , in an address to the Congress , Bush stated that the country 's economic policies put it in the " forefront of the free-market movement now taking hold across Latin America " and that this made it a " prime candidate " for debt relief proposed under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative .
20 I think you 've probably had enough actually , you get he 's , just have one , one little bit , put your finger in , and then we 're gon na put it in the , er three fingers put it in the wash
21 And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place .
22 I think I a bit put it in the back now .
23 This of course put me in the wrong .
24 Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green .
25 David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent .
26 As Sir John Simon put it in the Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the City of London 1849–50 , ‘ It is no uncommon thing , in a room of twelve foot square or less , to find three or four families styed together … in the promiscuous intimacy of cattle . ’
27 MODEL Jerry Hall put herself in the picture when she opened an art show yesterday .
28 Curtis put him in the picture ; his large , powerful hands seemed to tear vivid images out of thin air .
29 Meanwhile , David Speedie puts himself in the shop window at St Andrews tonight .
30 Silage was found mainly on the larger units as the cost of machinery and buildings put it outwith the scope of the small family and part-time farmers .
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