Example sentences of "put [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think that you are you can be sort of erm put behind the eight ball ? |
| 2 | Er now we , the pensioners , had no choice , we were picked up and put into the new scheme having paid our contributions appropriately to the old scheme rules which were the higher contributions , but only to pick up the new scheme rules that were against our interest . |
| 3 | Put into the c-drawer items that do not require replies . |
| 4 | Put into the hot soapy water , all those tools that can be washed . |
| 5 | Put into the social context of the late Middle Ages this meant that the class which had traditionally provided the leadership of armies was having its position , founded largely on social factors , questioned if not undermined . |
| 6 | It shows , say the authors , what a spanking investment the politicians are making with every cent of public money they put into the three big museums . |
| 7 | Yeah , just erm , that was fine , fingering here , erm , why do you put a , put a four on that , I , I would of thought that , that is more sensible , you put into the next note down , let's try that , er mm |
| 8 | I put before the whole House my own views with an appalling frankness [ he typically but unwisely began the crucial passage ] . |
| 9 | Put in the baldest terms , one can say that the result of all this was that man — or , perhaps I should say , the hominid ancestors of modern man — became able to hunt and that , with the success of the hunting economy , came culture and civilization as we know it and with it its psychological corollary : the superego . |
| 10 | I put in the usual request for official clearance through the valve and was pleased to find that we had got lucky . |
| 11 | They are aware of the need to improve their length so much that they put in the extra line so they are looking at a 1 or 1.5m ( 4 or 5ft ) area . |
| 12 | For instance to er to put in this lottery , and put in the new system that we just converted , recently , a couple of days ago err takes tens and tens of millions of millions of dollars , and most companies who come in and work on a percentage of sales , do n't get their capital investment back until several years into the contract . |
| 13 | Put in the remaining 2 OZ. of butter , softened but not melted . |
| 14 | I put in the white chairs — just the basic shapes will do — and add some more light pink to the flowers . |
| 15 | We put in the wrong substances , we overload it and mistreat it and yet we still expect it to work efficiently and well , day in and day out , for the whole of our life . |
| 16 | My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place . |
| 17 | and some of them differ so much from others who you put in the same box and you |
| 18 | It would have been easy for me just to put off the difficult decisions we need to take , but I must do what is right for this country . |
| 19 | All of us have a tendency to put off the difficult tasks or those we dislike . |
| 20 | Instead , a store detective will look for suspicious actions and then try to put off the would-be thief by staring them out and making their presence felt . |
| 21 | It is too easy then for children to put off the evil day when they have to get down to work . |
| 22 | As one tutor put it : ‘ The temptation to put off the evil day is irresistible for most people . |
| 23 | It 's in their interests to put off the evil moment for as long as they can . |
| 24 | I was trying to put off the evil moment . |
| 25 | Paul has just that transformation in mind when he tells the Ephesians to put off the old self , be made new in the attitudes of their minds , and then put on the new self , ‘ created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness ’ ( Eph. 4:20–4 ) . |
| 26 | but when they came to put into the new concrete support cradles , they found on average there was 30 feet of peat on top of the bedrock , so it could easily have been done . |
| 27 | The way it is at present , we can not , we can not get more loot to put into the new project but the bank manager , i.e. the Chancellor of the Exchequer , reminded us a few months ago that the other way of funding our projects he encouraged us to look at our current assets and if possible liquidate some of that asset and fund it , or or use it to fund our new schemes and this Mr Mayor is what we should be doing . |
| 28 | The motion which I am anxious to put before the full plenary session of the European Parliament is in fact a motion to ban lead from petrol completely , not merely to reduce it as stated in the article . , |
| 29 | red and got those to put in the black |
| 30 | If such people with planned social care can be kept in their own homes it is worth pressing for flexibility of resources to put in the extra help needed . |