Example sentences of "[adj] put [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid to put one in the kitchen |
| 2 | Against the urgent advice of Keith , Fraser and other veterans , they decided that the English were afraid to put it to the test ; but they were not . |
| 3 | ‘ I doubt if His Grace would ever stand up in a court-room to give evidence on my behalf , but I counted on Magistrate Peck being afraid to put it to the test . ’ |
| 4 | Oh well it 's always protection of the family and yet they 're not prepared to put anything to the family . |
| 5 | During a visit to the hairdresser 's I realized that we women are prepared to put ourselves through the most extraordinary practices in order to improve our image . |
| 6 | I really think , although I would not be prepared to put it to the test , that you could go out in the streets of London in your nightdress and nobody would notice . |
| 7 | Patients who have had previous experience of hypnotherapy ( even if no regression was involved ) are more likely to have confidence in the technique and in its safety , and therefore are often more willing to put themselves in the hands of the therapist and trust their own subconscious . |
| 8 | A as opposed to U is n't it , so it 's really like lugg age so if you say it quickly together it becomes luggage , yeah , okay , the next one , oh sorry put it in a sentence |
| 9 | The scenes of destitution which the journalists could not be prevented from glimpsing-it is impossible to put someone in a hermetic bubble all the time , even for ten days — had not apparently impaired their appetites . |
| 10 | One said it was pointless to put him on a waiting list , but letters from a grain merchant 's and from Littlewood 's Pools promised to file his application and interview him when he returned home . |
| 11 | I think it is immoral to put it in the water when you do n't know how much water people drink . ’ |
| 12 | It 's hard to put yourself on the line ; you need incredible conviction , and you 've got to be dead sure about what you 're doing , because leading a band is absolutely riddled with paranoia . |
| 13 | ‘ It is hard to put yourself in the mind of a general , , Cameron answered . |
| 14 | I asked him why this change of heart and he said that it was because Harold Wilson had seen fit to put her in the Lords . |
| 15 | are n't you supposed to put it into a conversation though ? |
| 16 | They also get the largest amount of pocket money in a week — £5.20 , compared with a UK average of £3.62 — and are most likely to put it in the bank . |
| 17 | The day her mother was due to put her in an institution Ursula Findlay , a nurse from Gloucestershire visited the ward . |
| 18 | Well , I think it 's a bit unnecessary to put me on the spot — this is n't a bloody inquisition . |
| 19 | It would have been quite possible to put something into the pockets of my dressing gown and then put it back into my clothes when I took the dressing gown off . |
| 20 | I think it would have been perhaps better if you , somehow er , maybe er I du n no , you could erm , nothing to do with you so you ri you 're not in a position to be able to move them erm but if it was possible to put them in a , a different situation I think would have made a more interesting picture . |
| 21 | It might be prudent to put it to the test . |
| 22 | It is sometimes useful to put oneself in the shoes of another person . |
| 23 | So if you do use bottled water it 's advisable to put it in the fridge after you 've opened it . |
| 24 | I mean , he was able to put himself among the duped . |
| 25 | ‘ You have to be able to put yourself in the place of the athlete and work out what they need ’ , she says . |
| 26 | Technical considerations are being completed , and I hope that we shall be able to put it to the House before long . |
| 27 | When we ger this fantasy football stuff going , would we be able to put it on a different server . |
| 28 | SOCIAL ‘ Sociologists apparently have come round to the belief that 50 per cent of middle-class parents who send their children to private schools would be happy to put them in the state system if dinner money was renamed lunch money . ’ |
| 29 | An expensive film may well be a flop ( Blade Runner cost $27 million yet took under $15 million in North American ( NA ) rentals , which are traditionally supposed to cover negative — that is production — costs for break-even ) ; the fact that it was intended to be profitable puts it in the domain of popular cinema . |
| 30 | As regular , well-known members of the church it is difficult to put ourselves into the shoes of the first-time visitor . |