Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [be] put [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
2 | My father died erm sixteen years ago and I was put on to tranquillizers , up until that point I had never needed a drug in my life , and I was put onto tranquillizers and I had a terrible experience ! |
3 | Er because the pit bottom was lit up and it meant going down into the dark , an exciting thought for a young fella , er and so off I went and I was put down on one of the faces , as a lad , and said , Right lad , you want to be collier ? |
4 | Just dial HOL 3434 , and you are put through to ‘ a very special weather expert watching a radar screen ’ . |
5 | ‘ Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner , ’ says Richards . |
6 | Fortunately for some in the audience the soppy songs in Benny Green 's reworking of George Bernard Shaw 's 100-year-old romantic comedy You Never Can Tell act as an anaesthetic and they are put out of their misery long before the interval . |
7 | ‘ Gregoire now has some hair and he 's put on weight ! |
8 | The mention of a sinus problem suggested a possible allergy and he was put on a simple allergy-exclusion diet consisting of lamb , pears and water for five days . |
9 | Doctors tried out different medications to ease Glenn 's condition but tests showed his heart muscle was damaged and he was put on the waiting list for a transplant . |
10 | When Curtis had gone Wycliffe asked the operator to get Sidney Passmore 's number and he was put through to a woman who spoke with self-conscious refinement . |
11 | The telephonist at the other end was cheery and casual , and he was put through in no time to someone called Cyril Causeley , who , the girl said , was editor for the Walter Machin books . |
12 | The monument was brought from Stanwick in about 1920 , Mr Carter says , and it was put up by a local firm , Charge Brothers . |
13 | Bernadette : With my other babies they 've mostly left them quite close to me , but she was put over to the side , the doctor was slow in coming , and she went over and checked her over , instead of coming to speak to me as they usually do — she went out again and did n't even look at me [ laughs ] … |
14 | But she was put out — not disappointed but made uneasy — by the images of the Maries in the church . |
15 | He has an injection of concentrated Vitamin B so he can play that night 's gig at CBGB 's , but he is put on a special diet for three weeks — with strictly no drink . |
16 | Sometimes the intention to go on the Pill is there , but it is put off until next week , or until their sixteenth birthday . |