Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] put [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All your twenties were on her little list and when Mr Nassim put them in the bank yesterday he got a nasty shock . |
| 2 | ‘ The biggest executive operation , ’ as Mr Montagu puts it , is the benefits system , the largest single employer in the Civil Service ( 70,000 staff ) and distributor of the largest single chunk of public expenditure ( about £50bn ) . |
| 3 | A third theme will be nature , or as Mr Zhu put it , ‘ people 's desire for tranquility , harmony and purity ’ . |
| 4 | The reason he did not start this game was that , as Mr Wilkinson put it ‘ he did not get a kick ’ , when Leeds were beaten 4–0 , their heaviest defeat of the season , by Manchester City a week earlier . |
| 5 | ‘ You only find out after marriage what a load of rubbish they are , ’ as Mr Llambias puts it . |
| 6 | As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Malik put him in your care ! ’ she hissed . |
| 8 | I told Mr Kennedy to put them in the kennels last night . |
| 9 | As Mr Kinsley put it , they should have had another plank : ‘ A united Ireland through consent ’ should have been followed by ‘ cheaper air fares through the abolition of gravity ’ . |
| 10 | He had several phone calls from Japan to deal with , and a request from a Bombay-based Hindu businessman that he fly out in the next few weeks to — as Mr Kapoor put it — ‘ spring clean ’ his collection of modern primitives . |
| 11 | ‘ In such cases the documentation has to be correct from the word go and if Mr Grainger puts it all down in writing his account will be used as the basis for our inquiries . ’ |
| 12 | Because we know that , as Mr Cormack puts it , ‘ not all leavers ’ who go to England and Scotland to take their degrees ‘ are willing leavers ’ . |
| 13 | As Mr Thompson put it : ‘ Leasing is too well established . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Macfadyen put it to him that at the meeting with Mackie the next day he had not advised him that Shanks & McEwan intended to issue a profits warning . |
| 15 | Mr Newbery puts it rather differently for Britain : cars using city centres at rush hour , he calculates , incur marginal costs more than 100 times higher than cars on the average motorway or country road . |
| 16 | As Mr Chatrier put it : ‘ All I would ask of any successor is that he will always try to put the best interests of the sport before money . |
| 17 | As Mr Armitage puts it : ‘ We may not be hitting the quantity , but we are certainly getting the quality . ’ |
| 18 | Xerox has , as Mr Zelmer puts it , ‘ 100,000 hearts and minds focused on customer satisfaction ’ . |