Example sentences of "[was/were] put [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 2 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 3 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 4 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 5 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 6 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 7 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |
| 8 | Because what Niki was doing-the subject was Niki 's contract and terms for 1977 — was putting himself on the same level as Enzo . |
| 9 | Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care . |
| 10 | Siberia for me , but all they did was put me on a plane heading for Berlin . |
| 11 | I suppose what I did there was put them on the spot so how could I word that so that it does n't put people on the defensive so much ? |