Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] put it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos Paul put it on the next day . |
| 2 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 3 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 4 | The time may not , therefore , be too far away when , as McKinsey put it in their 1989 report , the scenario of ‘ potential unlocked ’ becomes a reality for AEA . |
| 5 | As Melody put it to Seb when they were discussing the matter for the umpteenth time at the farm , ‘ You go up there and try to tell 'em Anna should n't be marrying Nahum Plunkett and they 'll tear you to pieces and feed you to the dogs . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself . |
| 8 | As Roosevelt put it in one of his homely comparisons : Say the New Deal is a tree which , as it grows , continually produces rot and dead wood . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 11 | If Cipriani achieved little in the way of goals , he did , as C.L.R.James put it in his biography of the man — ‘ expand our conception of West Indian public personalities ’ . |
| 12 | As Wesley put it in an age stylistically more austere than that of Lyly : Style is the dress of thought ; a modest dress , Neat , but not gaudy , will true critics please . |
| 13 | If you do not keep all the things written in the book of the law , you remain under its curse as a lawbreaker As James put it in his Epistle , ‘ whoever shall keep the whole law , and yet offend in one point , is guilty of all ’ ( 2 : 10 ) . |
| 14 | The servants at the house were mostly foreigners who did n't know their arse from their elbow , as Morgan put it to himself . |
| 15 | As Longfellow put it in his poem ‘ The Village Blacksmith ’ — ‘ The Smith a mighty man is he ’ . |
| 16 | As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’ |
| 17 | The NHS had failed to produce ‘ a uniform standard of service for all ’ , as Bevan put it in 1945 . |