Example sentences of "to put [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words and melodies of the hymns used during the day all helped to put me in a receptive mood . |
| 2 | They were concious of their decision and did n't seem to put them in a great dilemna |
| 3 | We move them around deliberately , to gain experience and to put them in a different environment so that they come forward with fresh ideas . ’ |
| 4 | You certainly would n't want to put them in a different species , at least as far as you can judge from their shells . |
| 5 | And just to put them in the right mood , they have now been invited to take part in an international competition at Market Drayton next weekend ( June 19–20 ) involving the United States junior team , Eire and Great Britain juniors . |
| 6 | You 're trying to put them in the same leg darling . |
| 7 | IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’ |
| 8 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 9 | The scenes of destitution which the journalists could not be prevented from glimpsing-it is impossible to put someone in a hermetic bubble all the time , even for ten days — had not apparently impaired their appetites . |
| 10 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 11 | Encourage her to put herself in the other person 's shoes with explanations and reasons along the lines of : ‘ How would you feel if … ? ’ |
| 12 | But Iago 's ‘ practice ’ is so assured , his control of surface and perspective so total , that we have to put him in the highest class of hypocrites , along with Satan . |
| 13 | At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson . |
| 14 | He was trying to put her in the wrong again . |
| 15 | So they do have to put it in the individual enquiry ? |
| 16 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 17 | But even that performance is only sufficient to put it in the middle ranking of the world 's stock markets . |
| 18 | You told me to put it in the safe place . |
| 19 | That 's it you have to put it in the simplest of terms and that is the way that most people would understand it , you know , you come to sixty five or whatever and instead of having three hundred pounds a week you 've got eighty five pounds a week and what are you going to do about it . |
| 20 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 21 | Well as I say , I 'm going to put it in the big one once a year . |
| 22 | To put it in the broadest possible terms , we can see that intonation makes it easier for a listener to understand what a speaker is trying to convey . |
| 23 | And coach Bill Calcraft , a lock in Australia 's 1984 Grand Slam-winning team , agrees : ‘ If we can get promotion , and it 's a big if because this season only one club goes up , I do believe the club , with all its superb facilities and tradition , can attract the players to put it in the top flight again . ’ |
| 24 | Empathy is the ability to put yourself in the other person 's shoes and see the situation from their point of view . |
| 25 | It was difficult for me to put myself in the Guérigny frame of mind , to accommodate both the knowledge of a beloved 's death and the sense of her imminent return . |
| 26 | We did not really listen , but it helped to put us in the right mood . |
| 27 | And if one had to put oneself in a vulnerable situation , like rugging or grooming him , the handler had to carry a cane . |
| 28 | To be a recipient is normally to put oneself in a subordinate position . |