Example sentences of "and putting [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 2 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 3 | By the final scene , however , we infer his dislike of McKendrick from the fact that having seriously impinged on his negative face by placing Hollar 's thesis in his briefcase and putting him into a situation of considerable personal danger , he makes no apology for his action whatsoever . |
| 4 | ‘ I have n't the faintest , ’ said Shirley , taking off her outdoor shoes and putting them on the rack , putting on her indoor slippers , and guiltily , belatedly , bending down to wipe the shoe marks off the linoleum with spit and hanky . |
| 5 | ‘ And there 's some shortbread and chocolates and a jar of chicken breasts , ’ she said , taking them out of the basket and putting them on the table . |
| 6 | Mrs Foster bobbed about collecting the items and putting them on the counter . |
| 7 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 8 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 9 | A default colour palette will be displayed on the screen from which you select colours for your woolbox , rather like going into a shop , choosing cones of different colour yarns and putting them into a bag to take home ! |
| 10 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 11 | The doctor , however , acted in ways he found wholly admirable , and he thought that when he did get out he would apply his methods of handling patients — getting hold of them firmly and putting them into the right positions — to the positioning of his models . |
| 12 | Sullivan says IBM is ‘ taking the benefit of the productivity ’ by changing the jobs people do , and putting them into the revenue-earning areas of the company . |
| 13 | Yeah , we went through these stories , and tried to link all different things they go under , got attitudes , weight , sex , exploitation , memories , mother and child relationships , old fashioned settings , aspirations , working women , ageism , husband and wife , loneliness , change , working in middle upper classes , racism and grief , and then , we started again , through the stories giving numbers , and putting them under the headings we thought they came under , but the thing is , we 've got a lot of them under all , well not all the headings , but a couple of the headings . |
| 14 | are putting in they have high attendance rates because they 're including explained absences you know , as justified you know , and putting them with the actual attendance |
| 15 | to consult the landed and trading interest of the nation , by lessening its incumbrances and public debts , and putting them in a method of being paid off in a few years ; which could not have been done , unless a way had been found to make the Annuities for long terms redeemable ; which had been happily effected by the South-Sea Scheme , without a breach of parliamentary faith . |
| 16 | ‘ People have very quickly got used to the idea of crushing their cans and putting them in the special bins provided . |
| 17 | Blur , the Valentines and Dinosaur Jr on in the wrong order , at the wrong time , in the wrong place , before the wrong crowd , using inappropriate equipment , and putting you in the worst mood you could hope to be in for the Mary Chain ? |
| 18 | Stay with the traffic , ’ he reiterated , opening the Falkplan for her and putting it above the glove compartment . |
| 19 | Taking the score out of my brief-case and putting it on the podium : that is not my way . |
| 20 | Lean forward as you rise As in the beach start , by leaning down on a straight front arm you are taking the weight off the back of the board and putting it on the mast foot . |
| 21 | Mrs Blakey was already bustling about , taking butter from the fridge and putting it on the edge of the Aga to soften , taking a sliced loaf from the bread-bin . |
| 22 | ‘ Try harder , ’ he appealed and , taking her wine glass from her and putting it on the table , he drew her close . |
| 23 | A rewarded training trial consisted of transporting a rat in a slowly rotating opaque box from an adjoining room and putting it into the arena at and facing the centre of the N , S , E or W side-wall ( shown as an unfilled circle ) from which it could move around freely until it found the F+ feeder ; a non-rewarded trial lasted 60s and was conducted without either landmarks or feeders . |
| 24 | Using the trowel she chipped at the ground outside the door , prising cold earth from among the prickly stems and broken bricks , gathering it with her hands and putting it into the bucket . |
| 25 | A dozen years ago , half ICI 's sales were in the UK , tying the company 's fortunes to Britain 's anaemic manufacturing industry and putting it at a colossal disadvantage to rivals in more robust economies ; last year , the proportion was down to 21% , against 31% in the Americas , 25% in continental Europe , 17% in the Asia-Pacific region and 6% elsewhere . |
| 26 | She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed . |
| 27 | On the facts of the two cases it was unnecessary to decide whether , as argued by Mr. Jeffreys , the mere taking of the article from the shelf and putting it in a trolley or other receptacle amounted to the assumption of one of the rights of the owner , and hence an appropriation . |
| 28 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere saving of time in a library and taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or erm a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 29 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere erm saving of time in a librarian taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 30 | So Dymo effectively uses FDC as a data collection device , collecting the data locally , validating it , and putting it in an electronic format for automatic transfer to the head office for consolidation . |