Example sentences of "put [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think that you are you can be sort of erm put behind the eight ball ? |
| 2 | Er now we , the pensioners , had no choice , we were picked up and put into the new scheme having paid our contributions appropriately to the old scheme rules which were the higher contributions , but only to pick up the new scheme rules that were against our interest . |
| 3 | Put into the social context of the late Middle Ages this meant that the class which had traditionally provided the leadership of armies was having its position , founded largely on social factors , questioned if not undermined . |
| 4 | Yeah , just erm , that was fine , fingering here , erm , why do you put a , put a four on that , I , I would of thought that , that is more sensible , you put into the next note down , let's try that , er mm |
| 5 | I put before the whole House my own views with an appalling frankness [ he typically but unwisely began the crucial passage ] . |
| 6 | I put in the usual request for official clearance through the valve and was pleased to find that we had got lucky . |
| 7 | They are aware of the need to improve their length so much that they put in the extra line so they are looking at a 1 or 1.5m ( 4 or 5ft ) area . |
| 8 | For instance to er to put in this lottery , and put in the new system that we just converted , recently , a couple of days ago err takes tens and tens of millions of millions of dollars , and most companies who come in and work on a percentage of sales , do n't get their capital investment back until several years into the contract . |
| 9 | My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place . |
| 10 | and some of them differ so much from others who you put in the same box and you |
| 11 | Instead , a store detective will look for suspicious actions and then try to put off the would-be thief by staring them out and making their presence felt . |
| 12 | It is too easy then for children to put off the evil day when they have to get down to work . |
| 13 | As one tutor put it : ‘ The temptation to put off the evil day is irresistible for most people . |
| 14 | It 's in their interests to put off the evil moment for as long as they can . |
| 15 | I was trying to put off the evil moment . |
| 16 | Paul has just that transformation in mind when he tells the Ephesians to put off the old self , be made new in the attitudes of their minds , and then put on the new self , ‘ created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness ’ ( Eph. 4:20–4 ) . |
| 17 | The way it is at present , we can not , we can not get more loot to put into the new project but the bank manager , i.e. the Chancellor of the Exchequer , reminded us a few months ago that the other way of funding our projects he encouraged us to look at our current assets and if possible liquidate some of that asset and fund it , or or use it to fund our new schemes and this Mr Mayor is what we should be doing . |
| 18 | If such people with planned social care can be kept in their own homes it is worth pressing for flexibility of resources to put in the extra help needed . |
| 19 | Andrew quotes a simple example as a note of warning : ‘ Anyone who is two stones overweight — and one in three people fall into this category — has to put in the extra effort equivalent to carrying seven bags of sugar in each hand — all the time ! ’ |
| 20 | As you are building a new pond , you have the opportunity to put in the best filtration system , without paying a fortune . |
| 21 | And you do n't need to put in the whole amount , but then if you do n't put in the whole amount or you withdraw the net interest which you 're entitled to do then you 're pulling away the build-up are n't you ? |
| 22 | As we have seen , in a large number of colonies the authorities had been involved in publishing newspapers , Using both the colonial and local languages , they had tried to put over the official point of view , often in an attempt to forestall or counter alternative interpretations and opinions . |
| 23 | Dorothy L. must be describing them to put over the dramatic picture of the abandoned easel , but I 'll take all that for granted . " |
| 24 | In place of God-consciousness , for which he had little time , he wanted to put on the one hand the revelation made in Jesus and recoverable through the historical study of the New Testament , and on the other the moral and spiritual response to Jesus which issues in Christian living and acting . |
| 25 | Zak and Emil arrived together at that point , Emil ready to set the tables for lunch , Zak in theatrical exasperation demanding to know if the actors were to put on the next scene before the meal as originally planned , and if not , when ? |
| 26 | And er at times , at spells , I 've got to put on the pink bandage , at times , you know , to get the swelling back down . |
| 27 | I want to put to the hon. Member for Sedgefield some important and fundamental questions relating to his party 's attitude to training and I hope that he will do the House the honour of answering them . |
| 28 | ‘ John Major began to put across the right message on Europe , ’ the former Prime Minister said . |
| 29 | We 're hitting the trail to put across the nuclear message |
| 30 | Moving slowly as though she could put off the dreaded moment forever , she changed into her favourite show costume — a long glittery number in gold . |