Example sentences of "they put [art] " in BNC.

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1 so he i he , he just put them put the washer in and , and just take care of it .
2 Yes , that 's when , that 's when they put no limit on it .
3 All over the place , not only at the fête , a psychic infection rages and erupts in small ugly-comic jests — ‘ They put a dead cat in my trunk ’ — but also in affronts to the human self as massive and immemorial as those Homer describes .
4 When they value a property in Sweden , they put a negative value on a historic house . ’
5 They put a strong emphasis on drama like we did .
6 All magazines and newspapers are a kind of conjuring trick — they put a gloss of coherence upon chaos .
7 They put a voltage between the tip and the sample so that an electric current will flow .
8 Where were you when they put a man on the moon ? ’
9 They put a stop to predators , parasites and cannibalism , simplified feeding and kept eggs clean — very significant for production when the law forbids farmers to wash eggs because of the risk of bacteria getting inside the shell .
10 Into these they put a few handfuls of the clay and cow-dung mixture and then , adding water , kneaded it until it was liquid and as pale and frothing as freshly-churned cream .
11 Several West Indians said that they liked the ‘ lay-away ’ system , where they put a deposit on something which the shop then keeps until — perhaps paying instalments — they have settled the full price .
12 Many parents find that if they put a pudding or sweets in front of the child as an incentive the child is likely to refuse to eat and just demand the reward .
13 They put a delayed payment on it — and we have just picked up the cheque . ’
14 They put a chain on the front door and bolts on the ground-floor windows .
15 When they start runnin' those muvvers ' meetin 's they put a lot o' nonsense in people 's 'eads .
16 It has even led in extreme cases to a few excavators being so certain of what they would find before they put a spade into the ground , that evidence was selected and rejected in accordance with their predetermined thinking .
17 At every turning point they put a greater distance between each other .
18 They thought that to do things by hand when a machine was available was waste of human resource , and so they put a lot of their energy into products that could be made by batch production .
19 When the Muslims arrived in Egypt in the seventh century , they put a stop to this particular barbarity .
20 Now the idea is that er they put a couple of monitors and monitor your brainwaves .
21 They put a big wooden house on the ice .
22 The Wages Act 1986 and the Employment Act 1989 radically altered the financing of redundancy payments by abolishing the government 's subsidy of employers ' redundancy costs.i These changes , which herald another shift in the purpose of the legislation , bring into question the role of redundancy payments and their relationship with the social security system , but above all they put a higher premium on dismissing the cheapest workers .
23 ‘ Anyway , that night they put a night-light in my room , in case I had nightmares , but the shadows were even worse than the darkness , and so I just lay there , under the covers , quivering with fear thanks to these damn dragons , and I wished Ken was back from University because sometimes I was allowed to sleep in his room , and I wished I was allowed a torch in my room , but I was n't , and I was wondering about crying really loudly , because that would bring mum and dad in to see me , but then what did I say was wrong ?
24 However , labour started on its own and as the contractions got worse they put a monitor on me .
25 The doctor said something about a tube in her to stop the , to stop what was it now , the doctor said there 's a tube , they put a tube in her and they do n't
26 And what they did was they put a tube from here into the next bit of the stomach , that comes round from underneath there , put a tube across there
27 So they put a tube across there .
28 Thus individuals desire certain goals and they put a value on these goals .
29 And you know these telephone-holes — when they 've dug a good hole they put a sort of canvas tent on top , so that they can work in comfort underneath .
30 I do n't know but an ordinary barge used to have a little wooden crate and he want to have a little tank , they put a fixed charge on of two and six pence that 's what they done .
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