Example sentences of "put [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because however , however much brute force you put in , it 's how you put through the javelin . |
| 2 | We discovered that it was because of the pills put between the cocoa bean sacs to kill insects . |
| 3 | Put against the letters that I wrote they 've all been sent out . |
| 4 | I put back so and then I put against the fence . |
| 5 | comes out first and then you see how the padding because this wadding is stitched onto the back , and the front is the bit you put against the wound and you put it straight against the would without |
| 6 | The stately measure of the band , who were not particularly loud , was the steady , elegant funk they put into the music ; they did n't need flashness or speed to get across . |
| 7 | If you play around with the savings plan spreadsheet you will quickly discover that the earnings ratio is n't dependent on how much you put into the plan every month , only on how long you save for and the interest rate . |
| 8 | This week for 24 hours they 're refusing to cook , shop or even help the kids with their homework because , they say , they should get a regular Government wage for all the time and effort they put into the home . |
| 9 | put into the clouds |
| 10 | His book undoubtedly fills a need ; it may , besides , make you wonder whether we have most of us come all that far since the days of Babbage , the true father of the computer , who recorded in his memoirs that he often used to be asked by the mandarins of the English establishment , when they came to view his difference engine : ‘ Pray , Mr Babbage , if you put into the machine wrong figures , will the right answers come out ? ’ |
| 11 | But on privatization , they were split off to be the watchdog for what we put into the rivers . |
| 12 | The quality element is that which you put into the system . |
| 13 | How can you protect the money you put into the company ? |
| 14 | ‘ Put into the river , ’ said George , studying the circle of shocked faces , ‘ somewhere on these premises . |
| 15 | Whe and you know , put into the clothes basket and then pick it up on our way home from school . |
| 16 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 17 | Not new light bulbs , the ones that she 'd taken out and put into the plastic bag . |
| 18 | and it says , you can only appeal it will appear in November , that 's when it 's going to be , er put into the library |
| 19 | Around 3,500 of Britain 's industrial processes will have to be justified to the inspectorate for the pollution they put into the environment on land , into the air and into water . |
| 20 | We can all go and invest in PEPs , we can all go and invest in pension plans and all of that gets taken by the institutions and put into the stock market . |
| 21 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 23 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 24 | To begin with , the new water you put into the pond was probably straight from the tap . |
| 25 | ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital . |
| 26 | It 's the stuff they put under the floor . ’ |
| 27 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 28 | They had this very unhealthy large majority and they put before the House a Bill which offered total deregulation of shopping hours and to all intents and purposes stripped out nearly all the employment protection which has been a hallmark of Sunday trading legislation , certainly for the past century . |
| 29 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
| 30 | The social pressures I put upon the kids were designed to make my maths teaching more effective . |