Example sentences of "put [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Your glasses and keys you put through a small slot .
2 As has already been stated , the great majority of bodies were not embalmed , but put into a lined coffin , whose mattress overlaid a quantity of sawdust , wood shavings and bran to soak up any leakage associated with putrefaction .
3 Put into a hot pan and cook until the fat runs out .
4 Put into a greased and lined 23cm ( 9″ ) round shallow tin .
5 Put into a deep frying pan with about 3 in water and bring to the boil .
6 Put under a hot grill for a few moments until golden .
7 They put in a tremendous physical effort in the second half .
8 Put in a V-shaped trench 6in apart above a layer of course sand .
9 At best , they put in a decent effort in executing the entrepreneurial hero 's grand design .
10 We put in a new sink and Malcolm bought us a Baby Belling cooker , one electric ring on which we could heat a an of beans very , very slowly .
11 We put in a new management team and floated the company at £27 million . ’
12 Ca n't we sell them ours and put in a new one
13 That 's got rid of the sludge in the tank and everything , you put in a complete sealed unit on .
14 So I brought it to Gary Brawer , the San Francisco luthier who does a lot of my setup work and he filled it up — took out the springs and the bar and filled it all up with ash and we put in a regular DiMarzio stop tailpiece , with through-the-body strings .
15 It was the home side who took the lead in the twenty sixth minute when Doug Taylor beat Brian House on the right wing , put in a low cross and Pedro Herbert crept in behind the defence to score .
16 Chop cheese into small cubes ; put in a small pan together with the cream and stir continuously on a low heat until cheese is completely dissolved .
17 put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little
18 Erm th the reduction in the cost of discretionary awards which is partly the result of the policies that are partly also changing the , in the national situation and increased recruitment funding and in an area into which officers put in a great deal of time to try to make sure that we do the equivalent they should be getting .
19 If you put in a great big long string does it change the t
20 You wo n't get any increase this year , but if you put in a good bid now you might get your allocation upped for next year . ’
21 With both sides suffering dead and wounded , Davidian lawyer Wayne , put in a desperate call to the deputy sheriff , Larry who he knew .
22 Put in a fireproof dish eight carrots cut in round pieces , about half an inch thick , half a dozen small onions , parsley , salt and pepper and a rasher of bacon cut in small pieces , add a tablespoon of water , cover the dish and cook on a slow fire for about three and a half hours .
23 Put in a large casserole with the pork , petits pois , beans and herbs .
24 You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder !
25 They had a couple of people round , but no no nibbles , or I think , yes , I think somebody a silly offer because of course all the property pages and places like that , Daily Telegraph are urging everybody , go on put in an offer for a house , put in a silly offer !
26 Put in a big alarm .
27 Shall I wait and then put in er would it be better for me to wait and then put in a big lump sum ?
28 It goes in the cokes mid-afternoon you leave that until next morning and take it out , put in a clean muslin and turn it back in the coke and more pressure until the next morning .
29 Obviously put in a little camera in the
30 I put in a square bracket on the minutes
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