Example sentences of "put [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 2 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 3 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 4 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 5 | London local authorities had delayed hearing petitioners ' cases and put them to considerable inconvenience . |
| 6 | They take some of Britain 's toughest and most notorious criminals and put them through intense therapy ; forcing them to confront what they did and why . |
| 7 | We write it out in longhand , each of the 700 or so entries on individual sheets of A4 paper and then put them into alphabetical order . ’ |
| 8 | Employment Action is a scheme that will take people off the dole queue and put them into full time work for benefit plus ten pounds . |
| 9 | I count them put them into little money bags . |
| 10 | Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin . |
| 11 | Just put them in boiling water for about thirty seconds . |
| 12 | 8 Get some air-bricks and put them in long grass or under bushes . |
| 13 | Put them in numerical order , have you got them all mixed up now ? |
| 14 | Put them in cold water |
| 15 | It spat a worrisome mixture of steam and flame out periodically and covered the bottom of the pans with black ooze , a treacly goo that got itself on to my pile jacket and put me in good humour for an hour or so . |
| 16 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 17 | Mike Woodhead studied soil-science in Holland and put it to good use when he purchased his wine estate . |
| 18 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
| 19 | On balance , the GDR , Hungary and Bulgaria have shown themselves able to absorb Western technology and put it to effective use ; but Romania and , more conspicuously , Poland , have combined high levels of dependency with ill-conceived investment decisions and the worst adaptation problems of the kind discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 20 | There was an old Intelligence adage which held that if you want to hide something , put it on public view . |
| 21 | He said I know I put it on full power . |
| 22 | Yeah , , try try and erm , put it into literal translation , to modern English . |
| 23 | Why does n't it just , put it in upper case then ? |
| 24 | The bill would give the service a ‘ new lease of life ’ and put it in good shape to provide an even better service by setting up a new system of financial management and creating new incentives to efficiency . |
| 25 | Oh I just boiled the ends a bit and erm and then put it in deep water . |
| 26 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 27 | And you put it in Chinese food ! |
| 28 | ‘ They put us under tremendous pressure . |
| 29 | They never put us in foster care . |