Example sentences of "[noun prp] put [pers pn] in the " in BNC.

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1 I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts .
2 I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and
3 Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water .
4 As Sir John Simon put it in the Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the City of London 1849–50 , ‘ It is no uncommon thing , in a room of twelve foot square or less , to find three or four families styed together … in the promiscuous intimacy of cattle . ’
5 Curtis put him in the picture ; his large , powerful hands seemed to tear vivid images out of thin air .
6 In particular , a decision on the meaning of a word or phrase in a standard form commercial agreement will generally be followed because , as Lord Denning put it in The Annefield [ 1971 ] P 168 , " Once a court has put a construction on a standard form , commercial men act upon it .
7 The music is lost , but Cavalieri 's contemporaries agree that it was he who , as Peri put it in the preface to his Euridice ( 1600 ) , ‘ before anyone else made our music ’ ( i.e. the ‘ nuova maniera di canto ’ ) ‘ heard on the stage ’ .
8 As Thomas Becon put it in the sixteenth century , it was a ‘ duty of children ’ whose parents were ‘ aged and fallen into poverty , so that they are not able to live of themselves , or to get their living by their own industry and labour ’ , to work and care for them and ‘ provide necessaries for them , ‘ just as in their own childhoods ‘ their parents cared and provided for them . ’
9 Amanda put him in the newsroom . ’
10 As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine :
11 John Moncur put it in the back of the net .
12 She left twelve pence on the floor and Bill put it in the cubby hole in the fireplace and Gary says whose is this money and Arthur was going to pick it up an'all , he says leave that he says that 's for Enid 's money .
13 ‘ And the Trunchbull put you in The Chokey for a whole day ? ’
14 Did you know that Queen Victoria put him in the same class as Landseer ?
15 All your twenties were on her little list and when Mr Nassim put them in the bank yesterday he got a nasty shock .
16 They never looked back after Neil Hodgson put them in the lead after 24 minutes , Joe Peel adding tow more before half time .
17 Kersey came in and Wycliffe put him in the picture .
18 As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ .
19 As Arthur Koestler put it in The Act of Creation :
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