Example sentences of "[conj] put [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She said I 'd have to pay the full amount or put it back in the freezer , ’ said Mr Parker , of York . |
| 2 | Never throw a fork or spade or put it down near your feet . |
| 3 | No detractor however imaginative or ingenious could find anything that would pain him or put him out of countenance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had to say something humorous without being a smart-ass or putting her down in any way . |
| 6 | Was it the Chases ' dinner party that put it out of his mind ? |
| 7 | Sanguinetti 's faction of the PC , although not opposed to privatization as such , opposed Lacalle 's plan to sell off state assets through direct negotiations with potential buyers rather than putting them up for public tender . |
| 8 | Yeah and that put him out of his career . |
| 9 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 10 | ‘ You wo n't be saying that if we have to close the factory and put everybody out of work . ’ |
| 11 | Erm but anyway you s you started off with er with some greeting and er and er appropriate sociability erm one thing I noticed that Martin seemed to take control of the handshake and that 's something that was pointed out this morning and , and looked at and from where I was it looked as though he was keeping hold of your hand some time , you had your buyer 's guide and whatever in your other hand and you could n't , you know , bring it over and , and put yourself back into control erm and an interesting one and a , an e an example to all of us I think . |
| 12 | While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election . |
| 13 | They cut the petticoats into six pieces and put them on to sticks . |
| 14 | No he did n't er P C found some trousers , I 'm not sure where he got them from er and put them on for him . |
| 15 | And suddenly he took the rumours and put them on like a coat . |
| 16 | Sweetman took a pair of polarised sunglasses from his shirt pocket and put them on before inspecting me again . |
| 17 | Wear support tights ( these also offer support to the abdomen ) and put them on before getting out of bed ( keep your pants and tights under your pillow ) . |
| 18 | Companies generally take their guests down to Sunsail 's Port Solent base near Portsmouth in the evening , give them dinner and put them up in a hotel . |
| 19 | When you 've finished , you just tear off all your flip charts , and put them up round the room or something so people can |
| 20 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 21 | I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table . |
| 22 | Thirdly , and most important of all in the genesis of Doctor Who , are the people who inspired it — the few who drew the notion of Doctor Who from the seeds of human inventiveness and put them down on paper . |
| 23 | I carried the coffee jug and filter and two cups back into the living-room and put them down on my coffee table , which sounds posh but in fact it doubles as a dining table , poker table and ironing-board . |
| 24 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 25 | At eighteen it 's so easy to romanticise things and put them down in a song . |
| 26 | He saw things in a flash and put them down in a sentence or at most a paragraph . |
| 27 | Vivienne would pick them up and say , it 's alright I 'll just wash them down and put them back on the rack . |
| 28 | Albert took off his glasses and rubbed them on his handkerchief and put them back on , as if clean spectacles might make him think better . |
| 29 | ‘ And he tied the horse up ; took the shoes off and put them back on again . |
| 30 | and she says she sat , she sat er still you know with her arms folded and all like that and she says , oh she says I think you er collect the books and stamp them and put them back on the shelves and she said they all laughed , but she got the job in opposition to er , a few others you know |