Example sentences of "always put [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd always got , he always put his hand in his pocket wou could n't he ? |
| 2 | Always put my mouth in it . |
| 3 | But she had n't let the kidnapper in , she could swear to that because , having pressed the switch , she always put her head out to see who was coming in since there was n't a housephone . |
| 4 | Now she was a young widow , dignified but vulnerable , busy but not tastelessly careerist ; she believed that she always put her family first . |
| 5 | Put at its simplest , it was jealous suspicion , for when she had looked through Barbs 's windows she had seen Memet 's straw hat sitting on the sill : he always put his hat on the window-sill . |
| 6 | ‘ Bloody illiteracy always puts my back up . |
| 7 | He always puts his foot in it and tends to cause more confusion when he opens his mouth than when he keeps it shut . |
| 8 | It is this special relationship , whereby the solicitor ‘ like all professional men always puts his client 's interests before his own ’ ( Monopolies and Mergers Commission Report 1976b ) that is said to take the profession outside the market forces of the business world . |
| 9 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 10 | He was as cranky as a bad-tempered goat , always putting his head down and charging into things that annoyed him . |
| 11 | His mannerisms were lovely — he was always putting his arm around me . |
| 12 | I had always put my hand on that attenuated strip of iron to push the gate open . |