Example sentences of "[pers pn] put [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Can I put in excellent restaurant that exists right here in County
2 They , well there 's no taste to it , I mean it 's what you put on white bread
3 And that is why you have to ensure that whatever elements you put in initial-clause position in your target text or in a given part of your target text add up to something that can be understood as a method of development and that can provide a point of orientation for that part of the text .
4 This enables you to put in recessed lighting , or to add an acoustic or tongue-and-groove wood finish .
5 Quickly she put on lacy underwear and pulled her best dress from the wardrobe , a cocktail-length skirt of full , flame-coloured taffeta topped by a portrait-necked bodice of black velvet .
6 She balanced these activities with what she was good at-dealing with the public and solving problems , skills she put to good use in her part-time work with the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau .
7 My mother always told me to put on clean underwear in case I got knocked over and taken to hospital , but the possibility that someone 's drunken wife might decide to revenge herself on her husband by going down on me was not a scenario we had ever discussed .
8 We put in real money into this area .
9 Einstein posed a searching question for such systems which we put in modern dress : can an astronaut inside the capsule determine his state of motion without looking out of the capsule ?
10 This was manned by a number of highly professional officers skilled and experienced in the technicalities of flying , and they put into practical effect the policies decided on by the member States to standardise procedures , facilities and levels of safety throughout the world .
11 Then you erm had them put in Modern number seven .
12 The imprisonment was , in fact , to last for six years , a period which Louis-Napoleon later called his ‘ university years ’ , and which he put to good use by both studying and publishing .
13 This tour of Europe and Asia gave the opportunity for Kitto to acquire the knowledge of customs and scenery which he put to good use on his return to England in 1833 by writing articles in the Penny Magazine under the title , ‘ The Deaf Traveller . ’
14 And it 's a quality he put to good use when he performed a parachute jump to raise money for a girl who suffers from a rare heart condition .
15 He put in total League appearances of 38 , 38 , 42 and 42 respectively and was one of only three ever-present players in the team that took Palace into Division I in 1968–69 .
16 The first half of 1992 was very hard with most of us putting in considerable effort to achieve as much as possible .
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