Example sentences of "was put [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernadette : With my other babies they 've mostly left them quite close to me , but she was put over to the side , the doctor was slow in coming , and she went over and checked her over , instead of coming to speak to me as they usually do — she went out again and did n't even look at me [ laughs ] … |
| 2 | That was legislation was put through by the Liberals at the time , would it be ? |
| 3 | When Jeff Tyson was put up for the job of guitarist for Californian metal trio T-Ride the recommendation came from his ex-guitar teacher , Joe Satriani . |
| 4 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 5 | And also any alterations or recommendations for the national agreement the case was put up for the delegates . |
| 6 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |
| 7 | The two tests were explained in that case by the Lord Chancellor … who commented that not the law but our mode of life has changed over the years ; that what has changed is " the degree in which certain things have seemed susceptible of being put up as mere ornaments whereas at our earlier period the mere construction rendered it impossible sometimes to sever the thing which was put up from the realty . " |
| 8 | The stone pillar carries an inscription to the effect that the pump was put up by the Earl of Upper Ossory in 1785 . |
| 9 | A barrier designed to stop vehicles gaining access to Orford Ness and damaging flood defences and wildlife habitat was put up by the National Rivers Authority last year and is controlled by the FCO . |
| 10 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 11 | The most determined resistance of all was put up by the Koryaks and Chukchis of the north-east , who faced a fierce and explicitly genocidal Russian campaign up to the 1750s . |
| 12 | Which is where everything starts to fuck up , because the moment we turn our attention to Herr Mayer he tells us that the money he used to pay the Iranians was put up by the son of a well-known local citizen . ’ |
| 13 | Nevertheless , a creditable show was put on for the public , which in true GWAD fashion , stood their ground despite what the elements threw at them . |
| 14 | Nigel leafed through a few large-print Agatha Christies but was put off by the noxious inexplicable stains on the pages . |
| 15 | But David Holloway in The Daily Telegraph was put off by the author 's ‘ inalienable cynicism ’ and Nicci Gerrard in the Observer damned it as ‘ a competent novel that Mortimer can pull of without really trying ’ . |
| 16 | Hunt was put out of the new US Grand Prix ( West ) at Long Beach , following a shunt with Patric Depailler ( Fra ) as Lauda finished second to stretch his lead to 18 points . |
| 17 | The Marine Caterer for October 1911 records that " foreign labour having been introduced into Cunard , Mr Cotter , among others was put out of the Mauritania " and that in 1909 he asked the assistance of the Liverpool Trades Council to organise seagoing stewards . |
| 18 | Though he claimed merely to have followed the Protector 's orders , he was put out of the commission of the peace . |
| 19 | His injury comes in the same week as Danish world champion Jan O Pedersen was put out of the sport for 18 months with serious spinal injuries and compatriot Hans Nielsen , who was due to ride for Oxford against Havelock tonight , broke his collar bone . |
| 20 | Mr Michael Oakley ( York ) , supporting the motion , said it was vital the matter was put out to the dioceses . |
| 21 | At the same time a bomb set fire to a sofa in a furniture store — but was put out by the store 's sprinkler system . |
| 22 | It is worth lingering over Churchill 's ‘ overlord ’ experiment , as it was put back on the agenda of reform by Sir Douglas Wass , former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury , in his 1983 Reith Lectures . |
| 23 | I was put back on the diet designed to ‘ build me up ’ . |
| 24 | time that the education was put back to the parents to enforce both |
| 25 | The eight-year-old female eel was put back into the sea so she can breed . |
| 26 | Then I was put back onto the house . |
| 27 | Then a new verbal mantra was put about by the IMF : Structural Adjustment . |
| 28 | ‘ He was put in with the bread and took out with the cakes . ’ |
| 29 | If the doctor 's estimate of the time of death is anywhere near right I doubt if he was put in before the turn of the tide . " |
| 30 | But after the first year , everyone who came below twentieth in the class was put down to the B stream . |