Example sentences of "[coord] put [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already there was the smell of roast beef and the white-coated cooks stood by with their carving knives waiting to hack the poor beast up and put him between a thousand Yorkshire teacakes . |
| 2 | In fact , she thought , tonsure his greying hair and put him into a plain robe and he would have passed for a tubby , somewhat benign-looking monk . |
| 3 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 4 | One day his inquisitors would take Master Learmouth and put him to the question . |
| 5 | His return had been delayed by the same blizzard that had almost prevented Judith leaving Manhattan , and put him beyond the deadline Klein had set . |
| 6 | The sergeant followed him in and found him smoking and put him on a discipline charge — idling his time . |
| 7 | What Hornung had done was to take his brother-in-law 's famous detective , Sherlock Holmes , and put him on the wrong side of the law ; a friendly dedication acknowledged the debt . |
| 8 | But it was with the coming of sound , in 1929 , that Colman 's Hollywood career really came into its own : the producer Sam Goldwyn was the first to realize the magic of that infinitely poetic , English voice , and put him under a long-term contract which was to last virtually the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 9 | ‘ Then I got Harry out here and put him in a dinghy and we … er … floated down to the lock . ’ |
| 10 | ’ So I waltzed him across the road and put him in a doorway and left him for somebody else to find . |
| 11 | I removed the Lionfish and put him in a quarantine tank , but he died . |
| 12 | With a cheery wave he left them , and Kathleen helped the man to his feet and put him in a wheelchair . |
| 13 | His first book , Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Puritan Revolution ( 1967 ) , quickly established him as an important contributor to seventeenth-century studies , and put him in the forefront of the group of scholars who were beginning the process of reinterpreting the English Revolution of the 1640s at the grass roots . |
| 14 | The court had taken Harvey away from his father and put him in the foster home ‘ until such time as the father can control his drinking and make a safe home for the boy . ’ |
| 15 | Gently , he carried him outside and put him in the basket . |
| 16 | He told the assembly 's members that if they did not vote down the existing chief minister , a supporter of Mr Sharif 's , and put him in the post instead , the president would dissolve the assembly and they would all lose their jobs . |
| 17 | If you like I could have a word with the Chief Constable and put him in the picture , should you deem it appropriate . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Which is why I 've spoken to the captain and put him in the picture . |
| 19 | But when the frail widow let the man into her home to shelter , he knocked her to the floor and put her through a savage attack . |
| 20 | John was delighted , not only with her considerable ability but also with her smallness , and put her into the Manchester Mites . |
| 21 | ‘ Because when ben Issachar exorcised Kokos , and put her into the tree … ’ |
| 22 | Paramedics had to give Lesley a litre of plasma in an emergency transfusion and put her on a drip before she was taken to hospital . |
| 23 | Folasade felt she had changed in that having a baby had given her more confidence and put her on a more equal footing with her mother . |
| 24 | By the time I 'd caught the dog and put her in a box Rodney had disappeared into the gloom . |
| 25 | The BPA pay for her ticket out there and put her in a yard . |
| 26 | The city council , responsible for housing people with Aids , has taken her off the streets and put her in a room in a single-occupancy hotel . |
| 27 | Once upon a time ( I said , and he stared bitterly bitterly at the floor ) there was a very ugly monster who captured a princess and put her in a dungeon in his castle . |
| 28 | I paid 100 pesos for them to tidy her up and put her in a 900 peso coffin on which I paid a 200 peso deposit . |
| 29 | They wheeled her bed down a corridor , and put her in a huge bare room with blazing lights . |