Example sentences of "put it [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Put it over your chicken so it do n't dry up .
2 ‘ If we had enough money we could buy her ticket and put it through her letterbox without letting her know who it was from , ’ said Anne .
3 Well when it comes in from the cow it 's at blood heat , and e you put it through your strainer and then you drain it and er you leave it be and it coagulates , goes consistency of yoghurt , slightly thicker than yoghurt , and after that stood a certain time you apply heat then you warm it up and you stir it , you break up the curd , and the whey gradually rises to the top and your curds settles to the bottom .
4 Rich er Russ played that yesterday , I played it through that on his C D , put it through his Leek speakers , brilliant
5 Now when it 's opened it 's useful as a sling , two sorts of slings we 're going to do , high sling and the low sling but also if you fold it , it 's very useful as a bandage too , if you put it across your knee , then you bring the point up towards you like that and then again , fold it the base up to the top again .
6 She picked up her dog , put it under her arm , and walked briskly to her home .
7 Remember that fellow at work who walked into that gallery and just put it under his coat ?
8 It was still dark , middle-of-the-nightish , but I 'd scribble something — I had to put it in my possession , take away the terror of it , put it under my control .
9 No , I mean put it under your jumper .
10 You got it , you put it with your card .
11 He might as well get a gun like Denis Hurley 's gun — and put it to her head and shoot her .
12 With a single swift movement , almost by reflex , her only thought to prevent a second ring waking Dersingham , she picked up the receiver and put it to her ear .
13 She knew how to win that competition , too : when he reached through to her the fourth or fifth time , she did what she had often dreamt of doing before : kneeling up against the wall , she guided his hand and put it to her breast .
14 And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward .
15 All its imports could be seen as luxuries , and the Stuart government was very ready to see luxuries taxed ; as James II put it to his Parliament in 1685 , ‘ Lay it on Luxury , as chocolate , tea , coffee , East Indian commodities as not necessary for the life of man , and on wine . ’
16 He dragged a handkerchief from his pocket and put it to his mouth ; dark sediment lifting in a subterranean cavern .
17 He had lifted the phone and put it to his ear without ever coming properly awake .
18 I 'll go and wash this and put it onto his coat
19 Or just put it onto your poppadom like that .
20 With a wolfish smile , he grabbed her wrist again and put it above her head with the other one , and then slowly , deliberately slowly , bent towards her mouth .
21 She would pick up the thought and put it outside her mind .
22 Whenever mum was ill I used to get a little card and write a poem and put it on her pillow .
23 She had taken the sign MEN from the Gents , and put it on her office door .
24 She put the skull down on the table , took the ring out of her pocket , and put it on her finger .
25 To accomplish this , the spirit has to wander old cemeteries until it finds a human skull , put it on its head and then turn to the North Star .
26 On the front , you have a picture with a jigsaw-shaped piece missing which you have cut out and either put it on their back or hidden in a little flap on the costume , which can be seen if people lift the flap up .
27 If they cut out my picture and put it on their wall , maybe they do it because it makes them feel good when they walk into that room .
28 Put it on their record ?
29 So I said , well , put it on me bread and do n't tell me .
30 It 's a screen about this big right and you put it on your dashboard and plug it in to your cigarette lighter and er it 's like a control centre and if there 's been a crash
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