Example sentences of "[vb past] put [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 2 | Through him he secured an introduction to John Dunbar , then the fiance of 16-year old Marianne Faithful , whose virginal looks and upper middle-class style had put her into the charts as a complement to the art student R&B bands . |
| 3 | The next second he had put her under the shower and turned on the cold tap . |
| 4 | Fate had put her in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man . |
| 5 | So it must have been the Gharrgoyles who had put me on the planets surface to die . |
| 6 | The Board said that they deserved their percentage because they had put me in the position to attract the money . |
| 7 | More than that , the caring crème de la crème were also confronted by the result of what had put them at the forefront of that generation in the first place : they were very good at what they did ( teaching , lecturing , theorizing , media of all kinds , creativity of all stripes ) , and they were becoming , perish the thought , Successful . |
| 8 | He had put him in the Cabinet because , with Bonar Law gone , he needed a man from the Law stable to preserve the balance . |
| 9 | The Party chairman had rung the area agent in Birmingham , who had put him in the picture . |
| 10 | He had put it on the draining board . |
| 11 | Hosanna started to smell the debris where she had put it on the marble top of the kitchen dresser and she shouted at him so that he darted out into the yard . |
| 12 | When the envelope had arrived she had put it on the mantelpiece in the small sitting-room , but almost at once she had decided to take it more closely into her possession . |
| 13 | They said the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , had discussed the proposal with the Egyptian president , Hosni Mubarak , in Cairo on Wednesday and Egypt had put it to the United States . |
| 14 | Somebody had put it in the drawer . |