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Example sentences of "i [vb mod] put [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ I do n't see why I should put on a show for the whole of Crane Beach . ’
2	Think I might put in a note actually .
3	Let's go in there and I 'll put on a cassette . ’
4	I think I 'll put on a jumper today , or a pullover it 'll be cold coming out of John 's tonight .
5	‘ I 'll put on the kettle . ’
6	come back I 'll put on the shelf .
7	I 'll put on the drawers
8	I 'll put on the heating , eh ?
9	That 's nearly boiling — I 'll put in a drop of cold .
10	‘ I 'll put in a request for them to check out Albany ’ George grumbled , ‘ but it takes months to get them to do your office never mind your home .
11	Richard get off the back of it or I 'll put in the buggy .
12	Anyway , I 'll I 'll put in the note anyway , because that 's the , thank you because I , I feel I 've got to get a few prices to find out
13	If you were someone the Department needed information from , I could put in an expenses slip for five thousand , and Hilary Todd would sign it . ’
14	It was a bit of a squash but he did n't seem to mind and I 'd put on a tape of golden oldies ( stuff from around 1985 ) for them to sing along to .
15	I 'd put on the pressure , really hard .
16	‘ Probably another £2,500 I 'd put into a larger stock fund such as the Fidelity Stabiliser .
17	A quarter of the cash I 'd put outside the UK , largely into Far East emerging markets , possibly through the Abbey Asian Pacific Fund which has a very consistent record .
18	Maybe I 'd put in a consultancy bill .
19	I just went over there and said it was okay , th I 'd put in a letter and they still could n't just take it off .
20	It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself .
21	I did n't know whether I 'd put in the right number and I thought well I 'll , I wo n't let anyone answer it , I 'll just re-dial .
22	Well I 'd put in the cerise and have all the jacquard colours , it , it would look very effective
23	I would put on a tape of Tudor madrigals — a new interest — and lie back in the contoured leather seats , letting myself melt into the crevices of Morley 's sinuous six-part harmony and observing the surrounding misery with mounting satisfaction .
24	Every lunch time , I would trot off with my large plastic box , and return an hour later with a container of milk which I would put in the office fridge .
25	I shall put in the report must do better !
26	I intend to start with the Dwarf Angel , and after three months I will put in a very young Regal Tang , which I would keep until it is three inches long .
27	she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship .
28	In the same way that there are rules within sentences , limiting which words can follow others , so there might also be rules within discourses , limiting which sentence can follow another one , and if I write ‘ The knight killed the dragon ’ , then there might be limits , or constraints , on what I can put as the next sentence .