Example sentences of "[prep] putting [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly there was no question of putting them under any duress and no one said there was a problem . ’ |
| 2 | Oh I never think of putting them in that . |
| 3 | From putting them through living hell to treating them like babies , just about everything humans can think to do to animals has been done to pigs . |
| 4 | Looked at in this way theory then becomes the ordering of facts and findings in a meaningful way and this ordering and building up is of the very essence of scientific enquiry , since without ordering facts and without putting them into some systematic framework there can be no generalizations and no predictions . |
| 5 | Therefore a study of the types of question is a useful preparation point : Types of Question Question type Explanation ( 1 ) A data recall question requires the pupil to remember facts without putting them to any use , e.g. " When was the Battle of Hastings ? " ( 2 ) A naming question asks the pupil to name something without showing how it relates to the historical situation , e.g. " What are the men in the picture wearing ? " |
| 6 | If the threat of ( big ) wars is small , it will make sense to spend more of that money researching and developing weapons and less on putting them into full-scale production — or on training and feeding expensive troops . |
| 7 | The council was informed about the anniversary two years ago but has dragged its heels over putting it on any agenda . |
| 8 | And who is responsible for putting her into this position ? |
| 9 | She felt illogically furious with Guy for putting her in such an impossible position . |
| 10 | She would never forgive fitzAlan for putting her in this position , she promised herself . |
| 11 | Abruptly she looked away , hating him , hating herself , hating everyone for putting her in this horribly vulnerable position . |
| 12 | I would n't be able to live with myself for putting him through that , but then he would nicker to me and I could breath a sigh of relief . |
| 13 | My aggressiveness towards the adults around me for putting me in such an invidious position was certainly unacknowledged and unconscious , and had my sisters not told me of my bullying tactics — which I had conveniently forgotten — it is likely that I should not be able to acknowledge it even now . |
| 14 | Sometimes I so hated JTR for putting me in this position . |
| 15 | ‘ They deserve a chance and I had no qualms about putting them in this quality field . |
| 16 | The key is to start with something simple ; 95 per cent of the decisions you make are unconscious — for example , when you drive a car you never really think about putting it into first or second gear . |
| 17 | Surely in a sense you 're unfair , for example , to the gifted children by putting them through this mode . |
| 18 | Just as one can know whether one is short or tall only by comparing oneself with others , so one can know whether one 's own political system is " short " or " tall " only by putting it alongside other systems and noting the differences . |
| 19 | I think the idea is that you just , they show you who 's doing the speaking by putting it in that little bubble from the person and then they write it again at the bottom . |
| 20 | In this poem Coleridge is clearly better able to understand his own mind by putting it in such a context , and , as in ‘ This lime tree Bower my Prison ’ such intimate understanding of his surroundings enables him to produce incredibly vivid Wordsworthian description of scene . |
| 21 | At clause level , a speaker announces the topic of his/her message by thematizing it , that is , by putting it in initial position . |