Example sentences of "[noun sg] put [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On their return to Orkney , however , the Social Work Department put them into the Camoran Children 's Home in Kirkwall . |
| 2 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
| 3 | The fireman put me in a car and drove me back home . |
| 4 | These two seemed friendly enough , but their questions about Sweetheart put him on the defensive . |
| 5 | As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ . |
| 6 | As Calum Davidson of Highlands & Islands Enterprise put it at a recent Open Forum conference , ‘ In the south of Scotland , in Silicon Glen , the Scottish workforce use their skills to produce IT equipment for their world . |
| 7 | Yet we felt we should give this fellow a chance , so my wife put it in a box and set it on top of the Aga . |
| 8 | And the next day — well nearly — the Service put me on the list as an Administration Trainee . |
| 9 | Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery . |
| 10 | On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track . |
| 11 | This decision might have been regarded as one asserting the value of individual choice , but the Court put it on a rather different basis , saying that ‘ the implementation of the rights conferred on the employees by the Directive could not be dependent on the consent either of the transferor or of the transferee or of the employees themselves , wit |
| 12 | Persia , Mesopotamia and Egypt remain more or less where Hellenistic erudition put them as the holders of barbarian wisdom . |
| 13 | Next day put them in a saucepan with the same water , plus a half teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda . |
| 14 | My need of M. Chaillot 's advice put me in a weak position . |
| 15 | As the New York Daily News put it on the eve of the ballot : ‘ The Muck Stops Here ! ’ |
| 16 | At Headingley , David Gower , thirty-three years old , became the youngest player to reach one hundred Test matches — or , as Don Mosey put it on the radio , he reached his hundredth Test in fewer games than anyone else . |
| 17 | The assistant put them in a paper bag and Tom handed them to him . |
| 18 | That punch put him in the Guinness Book of Records with the quickest KO in history when he flattened American Johnny Ellis in 12secs in November 1990 , and he has claimed two other victims in 19secs and 27secs respectively . |
| 19 | Mrs Wood paid for the shoes , and Pip 's father put them in a box . |
| 20 | A woman put her in a car and drove away and I did n't see Shelly again . |
| 21 | Life magazine put him on the cover and that single photograph of Manson , with his evil , hypnotic stare , became for the hysterical mass media , the face of a violent , drug-crazed substrata of society : the monster hidden in the heart of every hippie and longhaired supporter of a culture which seemed certain to encompass an increasing section of youth and bandwagonners . |
| 22 | The farmer put me on the table , with some small pieces of bread and meat in front of me . |
| 23 | As The Economist put it in a wide ranging analysis : ‘ European business needs more competition , not less ’ . |
| 24 | VICTORIOUS Bill Clinton hailed the women of America yesterday after their massive support put him in the White House . |
| 25 | He did n't want to run into Ballater again ; his wish to purchase the cottage put him in the enemy camp and threatened his peace . |
| 26 | And yesterday Darlington bus inspector Malcolm Humble told how a Sure Style salesman put him through a five-hour ordeal before threatening to send him a bill for his time . |
| 27 | Stories which Richard Burton brought out again and again because he was proud to celebrate his past and would not let any bounty or glamour of the present put it in the shade . |
| 28 | The defendant , who paid £10 per deal , said that the amphetamine put him on a high for an hour and that he used to escape pressures and worries . |
| 29 | Not just because of Joachim 's kindness but that chance encounter put me on the road to solving Selkirk 's riddles and the horrible murders they caused . ) |
| 30 | The doctor put him in the middle or late fifties , though , being a doctor , he hedged a bit by saying he might be anywhere between forty-five and sixty . |