Example sentences of "put them on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philby claimed he thoughtfully put them on the right track to divert suspicion from himself . |
| 2 | We did , yes , the two Rhododendron behind the and put them on the outside |
| 3 | Unless I put them on the outside wood . |
| 4 | ‘ You do n't wash your feet and put them on the dirty floor , do you ? ’ he asked as he got ready for the guests who would soothe the painful passage towards the critics . |
| 5 | She poked busily at the concoctions , withdrew the tins from the oven and put them on the scrubbed wooden table to cool . |
| 6 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 7 | Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move . |
| 8 | Putting them up in the wires and other men putting them on the hot plates to fire . |
| 9 | After emancipation the state could transform recruitment by enlisting more people each year but putting them on the reserve list much sooner . |