Example sentences of "put [pron] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We put them up one minute and the next minute they 're gone . ’
2 Oh yes , my curtains have arrived — Heather just got them finished before going to Australia , and I put them up last week .
3 The stench and the bloody process we watched put me off tinned fish for many months .
4 This is what applied mathematics should be about ; not the fallacious misproofs of Stoke 's theorem or the relentless linearisation of the nonlinear that put me off applied mathematics for 15 years .
5 You 're going that way Michael , put yours up that way one .
6 On reaching the box , he would take off his helmet and put it over one arm , while his tuck-box was held under the other .
7 I put it up that end cos I thought anybody
8 I had all my corner cabinet that corner cabinet out and put it down this end cos I 've wanted to move it cos I 've wanted me christmas tree .
9 So you 're saying the chances of getting four aces , provided you put it back each time and shuffled them again , would be sixteen out of fifty two .
10 And I meant you know , to bring some , I meant to put them out last night .
11 I 'll have to put you down some time .
12 I do n't believe it , paid all that money for a digital said look at the about stuff , at the end of the day they , he is five a side football stuff like that , had I 've been thinking about joining again , but I do n't really know what I 'm gon na do after Christmas now even Karen said she would n't mind joining but I tried , I managed to put her off that idea .
13 See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that .
14 they say oh tax is too high , I mean Labour want to put it up any way , but by the by , this answered them any way , what they say is oh its too high , erm even the American tax is four per cent , who gives a dam , because the thing is in America what you 're loosing , what you gain in your tax you have to pay out through the nose for health care
15 He had to put it down several times .
16 ‘ Thanks for putting me up last night , Leith , and for putting up with me in that condition , ’ he said sincerely .
17 I 'm an old-fashioned textual critic , not a biographer — I do n't go in for this sort of — it was n't profit — I 'll put them back next week — I wanted them to be a secret .
18 and I , John 's put his up three times since .
19 I know when I was at you just had one thing with a funny flavour and that 'll put you off that thing
20 I can put you off this boat any time I like . ’
21 This put him off personal involvement in scientific research but probably provided material for his novels The Search and The Affair .
22 If he has too many bad experiences with other children , it may put him off social interaction .
23 Do n't you dare I 'm in charge of this interview and erm and erm and erm what 's caused this and why discussion what has caused this change to try and find out and put him off Horrible feeling you see two people shouting at each other two people shouting at each other get the impression that the other party is actually doing an impression of a goldfish and going like that .
24 This claim might not unreasonably be held to cover such examples as we see in the following subject phrases : ( 15 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars the line defective is the one to the outside a dose strong enough would put him out all night In all these cases , prenominal position would also be acceptable and appears to give the same cognitive meaning for the sentence as a whole , hence encouraging us to accept a solution to the first question , above , in terms of " emphasis " or " focus " .
25 No I did n't put it on last night , but I did leave me heating on , it clicks off at nine o'clock , but the house was warm
26 That people will , will deliberately put it down half way through the term ?
27 Lost something put it down this morning
28 but I could 've put it off another day
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