Example sentences of "he put it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing Louis 's concern for the Holy Land in 1147 he had led the French army on the Second Crusade — he put it about that all he really wanted to do was put his own house in order , make proper provision for his children , and then he would be off on crusade in his lord 's company . |
| 2 | Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs . |
| 3 | As he put it to one of his regional officials : " If Joan of Arc had married and had children , she would not have been Joan of Arc any more . " |
| 4 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 5 | Late in his life , summing up the views of his Bloomsbury friends and himself , he put it like this : |
| 6 | He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ . |
| 7 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 8 | As he put it in subsequent letters to Eisenhower , since an American nuclear attack would automatically place France in grave danger of a retaliatory Russian attack , France had an absolute right to participate in any decision about such an attack . |