Example sentences of "[noun] put [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxham put his hand on the door . |
| 2 | Bella put her hand on the receiver of the telephone by her chair but , even before she could lift it , she heard someone prise open the bedroom window . |
| 3 | Many people doubtless came to embrace the emperor 's religion for worthier motives ; but Eusebius put his finger on the radical novelty of the condition in which Christians now found themselves . |
| 4 | Rachaela put her foot on the red Persian carpet and started up , out of the scarlet ambience of the lamp . |
| 5 | OSSIE ARDILES put his job on the line yesterday by slamming the West Brom board for their decision to ban Bobby Gould from the Hawthorns . |
| 6 | Once again he sounded full of pain and Maggie put her hand on the strong brown arm ; she just could n't help it . |
| 7 | Gray put his job on the line and smashed the club 's transfer record by splashing out £95,000 for Nick Cusack , a homesick English centre forward playing in the Scottish Premier League at Motherwell . |
| 8 | Harald put his hand on the older man 's arm and stopped talking . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman put his finger on the cause of the problem — the excessive subsidies in Germany . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) The king put his seal on the letter . |
| 11 | Craig McGrugan put his name on the score sheet twice and Jonathan Kennedy got the other . |
| 12 | Philip put his foot on the ledge and his hands on the window and wriggled through . |
| 13 | Philip put his finger on the blue feathers that had other colours in , like petrol . |
| 14 | In the car , my colleague put his elbow on the wheel and drove with his chin cupped in his hands . |
| 15 | My father put my suitcase on the bed . |
| 16 | I saw Sarantopoulos put his hand on the man 's shoulder . |
| 17 | Very slowly , Mary put her head on the block . |
| 18 | ALL Ireland champions Kilkenny put their title on the line this afternoon against a Galway side desperately keen to revive the glory days of the late 80s . |
| 19 | Lawrence put his money on the islanders : ‘ In the end , the strange , sinister spirit of the place … will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens . ’ |
| 20 | Then the man put his hand on the horse 's shoulder and began to scratch , as one horse nuzzles another when they have decided to be friends . |
| 21 | After a moment the Old Man put his glass on the desk and looked at Graham , switching on his let's-get-down-to-real-business look . |
| 22 | The Pakistan seamer put his money on the table and said : ‘ The fact is we have nothing to hide , and I think it is more than coincidence that all the complaints have come after England have lost . |
| 23 | Marcus put his cup on the floor , snatched a biscuit from the plate and held it absently between finger and thumb . |
| 24 | Keith put his finger on the paper , beside the right one , and Jinny read it out . |
| 25 | See World Champion Macho Man Randy Savage put his belt on the line in the main event against The Ultimate Warrior . |
| 26 | Nora put her foot on the jar . |
| 27 | Harriet put her glass on the table and left the room . |