Example sentences of "they put [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought , when this Lieutenant Colonel came back to him and said , oh my God the police budget 's in problems , we 've got em here , that they put something onto the council agenda . |
| 2 | I mean they put something round the mother 's tummy and they can see the heart beat beating , whereas we , if we wanted to know if the baby was alright and er it was n't getting distressed you 'd just put a , a cloth on the mummy 's tum and put your ear down to it and hear it that way . |
| 3 | Second , they put themselves on the defensive by shying away from subjects like food scares and by protecting the rogues within their industry . |
| 4 | During the autumn and winter of that dramatic year they put themselves at the forefront of agitation for more effective air raid precautions , and used their influence in the war factories to defend workers ’ living standards while criticizing the inefficiency of management . |
| 5 | This does not mean that they put themselves into the hands of an absolute authority . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
| 8 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ They put me in the bin because I suddenly had a talking jag , ’ Edward said . |
| 11 | They put me in the prison hospital . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They put me in the same category as Martinho . |
| 14 | And they put me in the banqueting room , erm but we could n't , d' ya know . |
| 15 | and they 've I gave them to them and they put them on the hedges |
| 16 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 17 | Or they put them under the wrong door . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | ‘ Then they put them in the sun to dry out , and when the meat curls away from the shell it 's put into sacks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | They they put him on the rail they tied him to the railway track so he 'd get run over by a train but I do n't think he did . |
| 23 | He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him . |
| 24 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
| 25 | ‘ They put us in the back . |
| 26 | Then they put us in the block . |
| 27 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |
| 28 | When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women . |
| 29 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 30 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |