Example sentences of "put [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Camcorders can play back their recordings immediately after they have put them onto the tape . |
| 2 | And look they 've put them on the bottom , instead of doing the top ones first , they obviously have n't . |
| 3 | I suppose what I did there was put them on the spot so how could I word that so that it does n't put people on the defensive so much ? |
| 4 | More than that , the caring crème de la crème were also confronted by the result of what had put them at the forefront of that generation in the first place : they were very good at what they did ( teaching , lecturing , theorizing , media of all kinds , creativity of all stripes ) , and they were becoming , perish the thought , Successful . |
| 5 | Right , having put them under the banner , clear banner of sales you know |
| 6 | Oh I 've put them in the drawer , top drawer , the er kitchen drawer |
| 7 | The only thing I 'm asking you to do is put them in the diary now . |
| 8 | No , mum said if they 'd have come erm , she 'd have put them in the bathroom . |
| 9 | A drawback is that it 's put them in the frame for some pretty clueless advances from non-comprehending journalists eager to get to the bottom of this modernist lark . |
| 10 | I thought we 'd got those books , I 've put them in the cupboard have n't I ? |
| 11 | I 'm told it 's nothing personal ( it 's never anything personal in racing — a fellow who had just put me through the wing at Naas visited me in hospital to tell me it was nothing personal ) , but the end result is the same . |
| 12 | I 'm trying to remem you 've put me on the spot now . |
| 13 | Erm you 've put me on the spot I do n't I do n't I 've really I 've really got no preference on them . |
| 14 | The Board said that they deserved their percentage because they had put me in the position to attract the money . |
| 15 | He 's already been denied £4,000 in not facing the Windies , and said from his Melbourne home last night : ‘ The selectors have put me in the position where I have to work out what is right for my family and me . ’ |
| 16 | Ahead you 'll find a series of lucrative events which may well put you in the public eye , and carry you to further success and acclaim . |
| 17 | He was longing to ask Emily more about Vic , but having put her on the spot , he felt that this was not the right moment . |
| 18 | The next second he had put her under the shower and turned on the cold tap . |
| 19 | Graf is one of the world 's top tennis players whose supreme athleticism and guts have put her at the top of a very tough profession . |
| 20 | I have put her in the parlour ; she insisted on waiting until you returned . ’ |
| 21 | His new album Goodbye Jumbo seems to have put him at the top of the list of those eager to nominate a spokesman for the green generation . |
| 22 | Now the Supreme Court has put him on the spot . |
| 23 | The Resistance would have put him in the grave if the Nazis had followed them . |
| 24 | He won the local Easter parade a couple of times as the best-dressed man which , in the depressed Thirties , must have put him in the mould of something of an exhibitionist . |
| 25 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 26 | He had put him in the Cabinet because , with Bonar Law gone , he needed a man from the Law stable to preserve the balance . |
| 27 | The Party chairman had rung the area agent in Birmingham , who had put him in the picture . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've put him in the side ward , just as a precaution . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've put it on the back burner , but have never given up the long-term goal of going round the world by sailboat . |
| 30 | You might have put it on the word processor and she could print off |