Example sentences of "[noun sg] put [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I broke it off , I thought I 've got a I 've got that clip that old piece , the other piece put it on better and underneath it there was a a hyacinth , and with it being sheltered |
| 2 | In some ways people in London ( flower of cities all , as a Scots poet put it long ago ) , both men and women , have more freedom to live as they want than they have in most other cities . |
| 3 | For Bradford Northern , this overwhelming defeat puts them perilously close to relegation with only two games remaining and now with a much inferior points scoring record compared with Salford with whom they are level . |
| 4 | As one teacher trainer put it not long ago , ‘ I have been in education for 25 years and I have never known morale so low . |
| 5 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 6 | No I 'll put that on it 's easier save that for your Mum put them on here did you say ? |
| 7 | The Social Security Advisory Committee put it more tersely : ’ Cases which have no merit ought to be rejected by the present wording of regulation 72 . |
| 8 | Now Grandma put it away now . |
| 9 | My husband puts it very nicely . |
| 10 | But the Pussy Posse both agree that the Femidom — or the ‘ Femy ’ as it 's known in Italy and Spain — gives women the freedom to put it in beforehand , leave it in afterwards . |
| 11 | Even if the political will were there , the money to put it all right again is not . |
| 12 | She groped around for her panties and shorts , ducking her head to put them on so that he would n't see the tears gathering in the corners of her eyes . |
| 13 | Almost at the same moment an English observer put it more succinctly : " Foreign service may sometimes provide a good stirrup but never a good saddle " . |
| 14 | The sherry in the clear soup put him out entirely . |
| 15 | He set her down beside the car , his arm firm around her shoulders as he steadied her and opened the door to put her gently inside . |
| 16 | There have been disputes between hon. Members over whether Carlo Ripa di Meana , the European Community Environment Commissioner , was within his rights or was interfering in every nook and cranny of British daily life — as our Foreign Secretary put it in rather colourful language — when he commanded that work on construction projects in this country should cease because environmental impact assessments had not been prepared although they should have been . |
| 17 | Although the size variation puts them in slightly different markets , they are practical family cars that are easy to drive and fun , too . |
| 18 | Let your mum put it on properly so it looks nice , yeah , lovely that |
| 19 | At last the sun-god put them down again , back in the forest where they had been before , and he said , " Listen to me . |
| 20 | Many members of the Bar still believe that the European Community is , as one Tory MP put it very recently , airy-fairy . |
| 21 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 22 | A spokesman for Cornell Business School put it more succinctly : ‘ Marketing men have to face the tact that America 's capacity to produce may have outstripped its capacity to consume . ’ |
| 23 | On the seventh spawning they knocked the glass down again , while I was at school , but my Dad put it up again before all the eggs were eaten . |
| 24 | As the ARCIC I statement on Eucharistic doctrine puts it so well : |
| 25 | Or as we English put it rather more euphoniously : the wood for the trees . |
| 26 | ‘ Unless the last time put you off completely , of course . ’ |
| 27 | For anyone who does not observe the difference of question word , there may be a temptation to put them down as merely predicate qualifiers with the addition of a resultative nuance . |
| 28 | I was deeply impressed at your delicious meal , for I know that it takes a lot of thought and time to put something together so excellently ( at least , I know about the thought + time ! ) . |
| 29 | I can not think of any flower that does not press better for being taken apart , although of course you will have to spend time putting it back together again when you want to use it . |
| 30 | It would just be awful if her family put her away somewhere . |