Example sentences of "[conj] put [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's a model train with a price tag that puts it in a league of its own . |
| 32 | I could tell he was pleased with himself but a bit scared , just like when he used to keep the half-crown Father gave him on Sundays , rather than put it on the collection plate . |
| 33 | The owner of the estate , American John Kluge , agreed in principle to sell the estate to the crown rather than put it on the open market , but he did not consider the resulting offer to be high enough . |
| 34 | ‘ I understand from the Echo man that it was your paper in Nature that put him onto the track , ’ Kegan said maliciously . |
| 35 | GAME show host Leslie Crowther is fully conscious again , five weeks after the car crash that put him in a coma . |
| 36 | It was , however , his permanent design of the deceptively simple 1920 Whitehall Cenotaph ( originally erected in wood and plaster as a saluting point for the Victory March Past of Allied troops in July 1919 ) that put him in the eye of the general public and for the first time turned Lutyens into a household name . |
| 37 | But there could be no begrudging the 1990 innings at Hove that put him in the Somerset record-books . |
| 38 | Lady Grubb had fallen easily into the habit of behaving to her children as if she were some doggedly snobbish godmother , inviting them home every few months to look into their marriage prospects and treating the occasion as if it were a country weekend that put her to a lot of trouble , though her house was actually in the middle of London and fully staffed with unhappy au-pair girls . |
| 39 | Prentice reached up and put something on the thin collar of Rory 's shirt . |
| 40 | He stepped into the kitchen and put something on the table . |
| 41 | Try and put yourself in the employer 's place , or perhaps in the place of one of the people you may be dealing with as the employer 's representative . |
| 42 | Aware that Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had a massive audience , ranging from children to grandparents , Crawford said , ‘ I then go and put myself before the public ’ as Billy Liar , whose first words as he comes on stage are along the lines of ‘ Christ Almighty , bloody , blimey ! ’ in a song . |
| 43 | Catching hold of her and she could n't get back do you seem because he had slipped this hand down this stick , got hold of her and he you see , and then I let go of the dog and take the the front feet and we used to drag her out like that you see , from the burrow and put her in a bag . |
| 44 | she said yeah she said sorted that out and put her in a trolley |
| 45 | And we 'd shut them out shunt them out and then we 'd collect the two coaches and take them over to the main yard , and put them under a cleaning platform you see for the cleaners . |
| 46 | He added : ‘ Had we got an early goal and put them under a bit of pressure they may have reacted differently . |
| 47 | She picked up the shoes from the hearth and put them under the table . |
| 48 | Speechless with weary anger , she cut herself two crooked slices of bread and put them under the grill . |
| 49 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 50 | and put them through an educational programme as a conditional of a probation order . |
| 51 | You do n't hurl them through space and put them through an electric field and a magnetic field and the rest of it . |
| 52 | The Bakers had to take all our clothes and put them through the tumble drier ! |
| 53 | Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | He clipped the sheets together and put them into an envelope . |
| 57 | Where they become problematic , especially for members of marginalized cultural groups , is in what they begin to mean if we take them out of the pristine hot-house of the academy and put them into the messy struggles of day-to-day life . |
| 58 | ‘ She collected all the patients ' false teeth last night — and put them into the same bowl ! |
| 59 | She disinterred two frozen TV dinners from the big freezer in the basement and put them into the oven to heat . |
| 60 | Remove the remaining needles and put them into the ‘ outside needles ’ jar . |