Example sentences of "they put [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I count them put them into little money bags . |
| 2 | They put something like 30,000 Chinese refugees back over the border each year and it was a custom of international law that such immigrants are received back , she said . |
| 3 | They took me along and they put me into this dormitory . |
| 4 | Well , I 'd had so much time on the sick , they put me on half pay . |
| 5 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 6 | By the way those did I tell you they put me on some tablets to re to erm to erm |
| 7 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |
| 8 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 9 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 10 | They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli … |
| 11 | I have to track them down cos they put them in obscure places sometimes , but there are conference notice boards . |
| 12 | You see , they 've got a card of the fella that did the thingy so , when they put him onto this other fella he says , er , yeah , his name were Mr so and so . |
| 13 | ‘ They put us under tremendous pressure . |
| 14 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 15 | And then she checked Well anyway the week after he 'd phoned there was no what you call in it so he wrote it in to the damn thing and said why is it when some people puts adverts in they not only put it in once they put it in three or four times the same week |
| 16 | But I do n't know if it 's still there , is thing they put it in last year I think , but I . |