Example sentences of "and [verb] them under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crosland had realized ‘ the impossibility , as he saw it , of a Labour Secretary of State taking institutions from urban local education authorities which were predominantly controlled by Labour , and bringing them under the same regime as the universities ’ . |
| 2 | It is essential that we should do all that we can to take as many schools as possible out of local education authority control and place them under the control of governors and parents . |
| 3 | She picked up the shoes from the hearth and put them under the table . |
| 4 | Speechless with weary anger , she cut herself two crooked slices of bread and put them under the grill . |
| 5 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 6 | I dig a hole with the hand trowel and pop them under the courgette together with the hands , feet and eyes ( which I 'd already collected ) . |
| 7 | To guard against accidents — such as the loss of the first packet , for example , or a furious spate of activity when the chemists ' were closed — he bought another packet of condoms and secreted them under the lining paper of his sock drawer . |
| 8 | Or is this the time to bring home a few ingots , dig up the cellar and bury them under the floor ? |
| 9 | You must tie them together and bury them under the great gate of the city . |
| 10 | She dropped them on the chopping-board and crushed them under the blade of her knife . |
| 11 | Shops took incandescent bulbs off the shelves and kept them under the counter ; the only light bulbs in sight were the high-efficiency versions . |
| 12 | ( ii ) Pipette embryos gently up and down in the solution and observe them under the microscope . |
| 13 | Yeah , we went through these stories , and tried to link all different things they go under , got attitudes , weight , sex , exploitation , memories , mother and child relationships , old fashioned settings , aspirations , working women , ageism , husband and wife , loneliness , change , working in middle upper classes , racism and grief , and then , we started again , through the stories giving numbers , and putting them under the headings we thought they came under , but the thing is , we 've got a lot of them under all , well not all the headings , but a couple of the headings . |
| 14 | Its two main features are that it lifts cooperative R&D ventures from the suspicion that they are illegal per se and puts them under the rule of reason , and it provides a registration system which protects firms from treble damages in the event that they are subsequently deemed to have violated the antitrust statutes . |
| 15 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin issued a decree , reported on May 21 , transferring the troops of the Baltic border district to Russian Federation jurisdiction and placing them under the command of the C.-in-C. of Border Troops , financed from the Russian budget . |
| 16 | He dropped the lot into a shoe box and pushed them under the bed . |