Example sentences of "put [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | I put back so and then I put against the fence . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | The quality element is that which you put into the system . |
| 10 | How can you protect the money you put into the company ? |
| 11 | ‘ Put into the river , ’ said George , studying the circle of shocked faces , ‘ somewhere on these premises . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Not new light bulbs , the ones that she 'd taken out and put into the plastic bag . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To begin with , the new water you put into the pond was probably straight from the tap . |
| 21 | ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital . |
| 22 | It 's the stuff they put under the floor . ’ |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But it really does n't matter Whom you put upon the list , |
| 27 | ‘ So why 're you always fussing about what they put in the fishpaste ? ’ demanded Constance . |
| 28 | They put in the hook . |
| 29 | And erm well we wrapped up a whole pile of paper for paper paper recycling and erm we mushed it up and the best of the stuff we put in the liquidizer and erm we put it in a tank and dyed left some stuff as it were and we dyed some other stuff green . |
| 30 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |