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 .
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