Example sentences of "[adj] to put [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid to put one in the kitchen |
| 2 | Against the urgent advice of Keith , Fraser and other veterans , they decided that the English were afraid to put it to the test ; but they were not . |
| 3 | ‘ I doubt if His Grace would ever stand up in a court-room to give evidence on my behalf , but I counted on Magistrate Peck being afraid to put it to the test . ’ |
| 4 | Oh well it 's always protection of the family and yet they 're not prepared to put anything to the family . |
| 5 | I really think , although I would not be prepared to put it to the test , that you could go out in the streets of London in your nightdress and nobody would notice . |
| 6 | Patients who have had previous experience of hypnotherapy ( even if no regression was involved ) are more likely to have confidence in the technique and in its safety , and therefore are often more willing to put themselves in the hands of the therapist and trust their own subconscious . |
| 7 | I think it is immoral to put it in the water when you do n't know how much water people drink . ’ |
| 8 | It 's hard to put yourself on the line ; you need incredible conviction , and you 've got to be dead sure about what you 're doing , because leading a band is absolutely riddled with paranoia . |
| 9 | ‘ It is hard to put yourself in the mind of a general , , Cameron answered . |
| 10 | I asked him why this change of heart and he said that it was because Harold Wilson had seen fit to put her in the Lords . |
| 11 | They also get the largest amount of pocket money in a week — £5.20 , compared with a UK average of £3.62 — and are most likely to put it in the bank . |
| 12 | Well , I think it 's a bit unnecessary to put me on the spot — this is n't a bloody inquisition . |
| 13 | It would have been quite possible to put something into the pockets of my dressing gown and then put it back into my clothes when I took the dressing gown off . |
| 14 | It might be prudent to put it to the test . |
| 15 | It is sometimes useful to put oneself in the shoes of another person . |
| 16 | So if you do use bottled water it 's advisable to put it in the fridge after you 've opened it . |
| 17 | ‘ You have to be able to put yourself in the place of the athlete and work out what they need ’ , she says . |
| 18 | Technical considerations are being completed , and I hope that we shall be able to put it to the House before long . |
| 19 | SOCIAL ‘ Sociologists apparently have come round to the belief that 50 per cent of middle-class parents who send their children to private schools would be happy to put them in the state system if dinner money was renamed lunch money . ’ |
| 20 | As regular , well-known members of the church it is difficult to put ourselves into the shoes of the first-time visitor . |
| 21 | ‘ David is keen to put himself in the shop window before the end of the season so he can be involved in a new club with their pre-season preparations , ’ said Town 's general manager Alan Smith . |
| 22 | We wo n't feel obliged to put you under the microscope unless you force us to , but , if we do , we 'll find something nasty , take if from me . |
| 23 | ‘ TV highlights the unsavoury incidents , they are far too ready to put them on the screen . |
| 24 | All , from Davout down to the humblest ranker , were eager to put it to the test . |