Example sentences of "was put [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 2 | But not as black as the mark that the ensuing conversation was to put against the producer 's name . |
| 3 | Despite Schlesinger 's claims that ‘ there was n't anything in the movie that I had n't seen in some way somewhere ’ and ‘ one was always confronted by something worse on the streets than one was putting into the film ’ , they were attention-getting elements , unabsorbed into the texture of the film . |
| 4 | I pretended it was Annie 's hair we was putting on the tree , and I called her a little angel , but she got upset about that , so I stopped . |
| 5 | When someone who was putting on the records said : ‘ Fourth movement , called The Storm , ’ I wondered how the music would compare with the storm outside . |
| 6 | She looked at him , ignoring Bert , who was putting on the kettle , cutting bread , " You know you like a decent place , somewhere nice . |
| 7 | I used to go to work fearful of the dialogue I was putting on the screen . |
| 8 | But in fact all I was doing was putting off the moment of reckoning . |
| 9 | You see , And it was a just a bit of a trick , I was putting in the rosters you see . |
| 10 | In 1982 , the school was put on the market by the agents to the Church Commissioners and the Inner London Education Authority . |
| 11 | Much emphasis was put on the importance of identifying the key decision-takers and making sure that they had the right information — much was made of the necessity of their getting a balanced picture on which to take their decisions . |
| 12 | He had never considered that tightening the girth to the tightest hole the first time the saddle was put on the horse 's back could hurt and frighten the horse and make it ‘ girth shy ’ forever . |
| 13 | Thalidomide , as many will recall , is a drug that was put on the market in 1958 to calm the anxious and to overcome morning sickness in pregnant women . |
| 14 | They all say it 's time Hawkwood was put on the map against that Greycoats . |
| 15 | The book , due on sale next month , was put on the shelves in some shops yesterday by mistake . |
| 16 | Most politicians were opposed to the idea of any special treatment for language groups , and pressure was put on the TBC to drop Asian language and even English broadcasts . |
| 17 | The straw ‘ hat ’ was put on the tray once again , a maid was called and the tray lifted on to her head . |
| 18 | Proceedings have been started to remove 51-year-old Mr Missen and his 49-year-old girlfriend from the property which was put on the market over 18 months ago for £250,000 . |
| 19 | The Old Rectory at Stoney Stanton , Leics , was put on the market in 1990 for £325,000 . |
| 20 | I was put on the road with Lynyrd Skynyrd when they thought I was getting too big for my DMs , but they were real wild men and I liked them a lot and we got on very well . ’ |
| 21 | And so they returned to the kitchen again ; and after the meal was put on the table Aggie went through the other room and from the door yelled , ‘ Ben ! ’ just the once before returning to the kitchen . |
| 22 | Under the influence of researchers in America such as Paul Lazarsfeld ( 1901–70 ) , greater emphasis was put on the need for proof and on the importance of data being as objective as possible , i.e. that it should be free of any influence of the individual researcher who happened to collect it . |
| 23 | This commentary was put on the Index of forbidden books for its errors . |
| 24 | A single voice , if it comes from somebody sufficiently powerful , can overturn the consensus arrived at by the rest ( Sedgwick wryly ends his article by saying that the child 's name was put on the ‘ register ’ , the doctor having used his influence to overturn the decision made by the rest ) . |
| 25 | Mrs Banham said he was put on the operation waiting list in December last year , when the wait was about seven months , since then she has been told it could be 18 months . |
| 26 | A very provisional figure of FFr50 million was put on the market value of the forgeries . |
| 27 | The question of a regional convention in this whole field was put on the agenda of the Committee in 1975 and detailed reports were considered at its Twentieth Session in 1979 and its Twenty-Second Session in 1981 . |
| 28 | No blame was put on the officers who were confronted with a situation that was , perhaps , totally novel to them ; certainly it was unusual . |
| 29 | It transpired the reason why I was put on the works was because there was another woman on the works with the same surname who 'd gone to Holloway for her appeal and they thought she 'd come back and had got us mixed up . |
| 30 | If someone in a house got the plague , then the doors were shut and locked , and a big red cross was put on the door . |