Example sentences of "put [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I put all the ingredients together and put them on individual plates , but lots of people helped get the lobster out of their shells , and Alfred made the mayonnaise . |
| 2 | They arrived after practice , but , like a fool , I put them on untried for the race . |
| 3 | If you put them to shallow they come up |
| 4 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 5 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 6 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 7 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 8 | London local authorities had delayed hearing petitioners ' cases and put them to considerable inconvenience . |
| 9 | They take some of Britain 's toughest and most notorious criminals and put them through intense therapy ; forcing them to confront what they did and why . |
| 10 | We write it out in longhand , each of the 700 or so entries on individual sheets of A4 paper and then put them into alphabetical order . ’ |
| 11 | Employment Action is a scheme that will take people off the dole queue and put them into full time work for benefit plus ten pounds . |
| 12 | I count them put them into little money bags . |
| 13 | Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin . |
| 14 | Just put them in boiling water for about thirty seconds . |
| 15 | 8 Get some air-bricks and put them in long grass or under bushes . |
| 16 | Perfectly normal , kind , well-intentioned people will behave oddly , becoming upset , withdrawn or even vicious , if you put them in certain kinds of unusual situations . |
| 17 | They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli … |
| 18 | They wear muzzles at all times when they are together at home , and we put them in separate rooms whenever they are left on their own . |
| 19 | Because it says put them in individual glasses but er er |
| 20 | I round up all the suitable containers in the house — china , glass and plastic , plain and coloured — and on U-day , I sneak out first and put them in strategic places all round the garden . |
| 21 | Put them in numerical order , have you got them all mixed up now ? |
| 22 | I have to track them down cos they put them in obscure places sometimes , but there are conference notice boards . |
| 23 | us two , we do n't use many , so I made , I made quiches , I put them in raw in the freezer , you know ready just to cook |
| 24 | If we put them in little bags I think there 's some more in the grass outside . |
| 25 | Put them in cold water |
| 26 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 27 | It spat a worrisome mixture of steam and flame out periodically and covered the bottom of the pans with black ooze , a treacly goo that got itself on to my pile jacket and put me in good humour for an hour or so . |
| 28 | Put plenty of crushed ice in the large container and ( Fig 1 ) stir in several spoonfuls of salt . |
| 29 | Th the decision you were putting to us though Trevor , was whether we put somebody on extra duty payment ? |
| 30 | I said they would be noticed because you got a better response from people who put you in small groups feel there is less pressure on them . |