Example sentences of "[was/were] put [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simplification of criminal procedure also may have discouraged false cases because defendants were put to less inconvenience when the charge had little or no evidence to substantiate it . |
| 2 | Stupidly , I presumed that the ancient axiom that females were put on this planet for purely decorative purposes or that being pretty ( or perhaps a spot of procreation ) were the pinnacles of achievement had forever died out alongside the bustle and/or the bubble car . |
| 3 | As you were put on this earth for , to see to men 's needs ! |
| 4 | The " smaller " systems of hypernumbers introduced were put into some kind of order by the American B Peirce in a paper published posthumously in 1881 . |
| 5 | On average 23 hours per week were put into these enterprises for 29 weeks of the year . |
| 6 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 7 | Thus two of the individual contributions which tile children were asked to make or able to make were put in this way : |
| 8 | Men who were drunk at market were put in these cells till sober , and then had to pay a penny to get out . |
| 9 | We decided the best way to do that was to put in this questionnaire . |
| 10 | And when she found she was putting on some weight , she took up swimming regularly . |
| 11 | It was the list of undesirable aliens who were banned from entering the Bahamas , and if my name was put on that Stop List , and if I was then thrown off the islands , I would probably never see my boat again . |
| 12 | Then I was put on some sort of medication to help me calm down because I kept on getting knotted up , getting uptight . |
| 13 | Pressure was put on some MPs who are the directors of companies from the bosses of the companies , warning them not to vote against the Government . |
| 14 | Ken complained to her employers , and she was put on another round , but kept forgetting the orders and was presently let go . |
| 15 | yeah , so anyway erm , he bought the car in to tell me that , garage down here , five hundred and forty eight pound labour right and that was put on another wing , save repairing the wing , put a new on , so what I did with mine is , I put on a new wing , right , and reduced the labour by sixty five quid to four hundred and five , I make plenty on the parts |
| 16 | The excess starters , generators , regulators and anything else that we were n't supposed to have was put on this trailer , was tied neatly to the canvas , we put a man on the tractor and all day long he drove around the perimeter strip with it . |
| 17 | I had a bath , then had to wait to see this officer in charge , and because they read on my notes that I 'd barricaded , I was put on this wing like C1 . |
| 18 | The willow was put to many uses by millers . |
| 19 | Remember Colin was put into that job er because he was displaced , he did n't want to go into the job . |
| 20 | Yes Chairman , the figure of a hundred thousand as we said did , was erm a figure quoted on by account chief 's executive of the purchasing consortium erm , that was spoken at a public meeting held here in Harlow last week erm the issue of the the transport around the area erm , was accepted by the the chief executive of the health authority erm or of that of the consortium erm , and the and the view that it would be much more difficult with the lack of public transport to get to the more relo , remote areas of Essex the the reason that the erm reduced use of London was put into this report was also erm , clearly stated by the chief executive , i it 's their clear aim to provide more of , to purchase more of the services from within the north Essex area , and that was stated in a major part of the conta , of of their erm achievements and that automatically means a reduced amount of choice for those people who would otherwise for , to London . |
| 21 | Cos she was put in that job when she was only a young girl and she 's never brought any shame or anything , not like the young ones are doing now ! |
| 22 | ‘ I wanted to be a city worker , not an industrialist , ’ he said , ‘ but I was put in this group by my teacher . ’ |