Example sentences of "they put [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 have they put her on a diet ?
2 she said no , Jean said oh I ca n't walk that , have a bloody heart attack she says , so they put her in a trolley
3 they put her in a bloody trolley and oh course she said , this woman said erm
4 So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial .
5 It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men .
6 Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week .
7 ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab .
8 And erm I did n't get the actual job I went for but they put me on the , on the relief register so that I go round to different people 's homes or different big hospitals and different Mencap homes relieving people when they 're on holiday or if they 're short of staff or something like that .
9 They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours .
10 I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown .
11 So they put me in a detention centre for six months .
12 Then they put me in a room and asked me questions .
13 They put me in the bin because I suddenly had a talking jag , ’ Edward said .
14 They put me in the prison hospital .
15 Started at that 's right , yes and er I did and er they put me in the machine shop filing keyhole and Those times they had to be all cast over the rim locks and all that , now they 've made for us and all that .
16 They put me in the same category as Martinho .
17 And they put me in the banqueting room , erm but we could n't , d' ya know .
18 They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks .
19 When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns .
20 They put me by a table er near the wall but it for a table for two and then another lady came by herself , I remember her name was Miss and erm and she said , have you been here before ?
21 and they 've I gave them to them and they put them on the hedges
22 But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop .
23 Or they put them under the wrong door .
24 They put them into a box with one of Bobbie 's prettiest handkerchiefs .
25 I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar !
26 In days when guests used to go out on the hill with gillies if they were fishing a large loch , and caught undersized trout , they did n't put these small fish back ; instead , they put them in a bucket , taken along for the purpose , and carefully carried the little fish to an adjacent lochan .
27 as most Easter eggs go to kids , they put them in a breakable cup , while they do n't put them in a plastic one or a melamine one
28 ‘ Then they put them in the sun to dry out , and when the meat curls away from the shell it 's put into sacks .
29 And if they died , we us I helping my moni my Mother many at time , to wash them down , before they put them in the coffins .
30 I wonder why they reduced them then , if they put them in the new catalogue , oh there 's a slight difference ai n't there , there 's no bow
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