Example sentences of "putting [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guinness flows , putting everyone in a confessional mood . |
| 2 | ‘ You are putting me through my paces , ’ Flavia said evenly . |
| 3 | ‘ Why are you putting me through this , Dane ? ’ |
| 4 | As soon as they pulled up in the courtyard of Broom House , Joanna jumped out and said jubilantly , ‘ Mr Jarvis has been putting me through my paces with regard to pigs . |
| 5 | No doubt he 's putting me to the test to see how good I 'll be at sorting it out . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , all this business putting me on the carpet … implying that I might leave you short . ’ |
| 7 | But Martin kept putting me on him at home and in the end I fell for it . |
| 8 | doctors they started putting me on anti-depressants , tranquilizers , sleeping pills erm , and you know , they were , their whole manner was just absolutely terrible ! |
| 9 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 10 | But Martin kept putting me on him at home and in the end I fell for it . |
| 11 | It 's a good idea of yours putting me on the floor Rocket . |
| 12 | Tremayne was held in genuine respect and I saw more sympathy than smirks : yet he in many respects was the stoker of the ill-feeling between his warring jockeys , and putting me among them was n't a recipe for a cease-fire . |
| 13 | Up at the old house , Donald kicked the kettle in a spasm of impatience and said angrily to Jean , ‘ Why are you putting me in a vice ? |
| 14 | Thanks for putting me in the picture , Patrick . ’ |
| 15 | A group of whirligig beetles span round and round on the surface of the water putting me in a daze . |
| 16 | ‘ Got no business putting me in there . |
| 17 | He totted up the number of points according to guidelines worked out by Denplan with categories from A to E. In my case , the extent of dental work meant I scored 158 points , putting me in the most expensive category , E. |
| 18 | She said , ‘ Nobody 's putting me in no garbage can . ’ |
| 19 | As she walked past his crumpled body she had said again , ‘ Nobody 's putting me in no garbage can . ’ |
| 20 | Sometimes I so hated JTR for putting me in this position . |
| 21 | I found myself hating them , hating myself for hating them , hating myself for wanting to say so , hating them for putting me in a position of wanting to say so . |
| 22 | My aggressiveness towards the adults around me for putting me in such an invidious position was certainly unacknowledged and unconscious , and had my sisters not told me of my bullying tactics — which I had conveniently forgotten — it is likely that I should not be able to acknowledge it even now . |
| 23 | I thought the hand-cranking on the ‘ 109 a bit dodgy , till an impatient Navy pilot threw me off the wing of a Harvard into the prop , miraculously only tearing my jacket and grazing my arm , putting me in dock for a couple of days . |
| 24 | Immediately he lent me his support , his judgement and helped me find a publisher , putting me in touch with Jan Martens and the Fonds Mercator which publish admirable art books . |
| 25 | ‘ For putting me in the right frame of mind for facing that rat Silvio . |
| 26 | Whereas , taking him taking one guy a week for a week , is putting no-one in jeopardy and giving somebody a decent wage for a week . |
| 27 | You concentrate on interpreting my ideas , putting them onto paper and making them work . ’ |
| 28 | Clearly the whereabouts of those bottles , and the number of them , had been one of the P'daytabird 's little secrets , for Warnie writes , ‘ Nothing brought home to me the finality of the old life as did the carrying out of those bottles and putting them into [ the ] car — to see the mysteries of that jealously guarded secret room emerge as plain matter of fact bottles , and the cellar stand revealed as an ordinary empty cupboard was an unpleasant feeling . ’ |
| 29 | They must survive the heat and other stresses involved in putting them into a warhead that can disperse them in a fine mist over enemy positions . |
| 30 | If the threat of ( big ) wars is small , it will make sense to spend more of that money researching and developing weapons and less on putting them into full-scale production — or on training and feeding expensive troops . |