Example sentences of "put [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Others who put off the evil day may find it helps to book a weekend away together so that there is time to talk and listen to each other and sort matters out .
2 One interpretation of the intermittent energy which Joseph Sturge put into the free produce movement in the 1840s is that it constituted an attempt by a Friend who had launched out into public and even political life to maintain links with more traditionally quietist brethren who none the less looked for greater perfection in the world .
3 ‘ They did n't suffer , ’ put in the young policewoman quickly .
4 ‘ Not at all , ’ put in the Prime Minister , reassuringly .
5 Though 45 stunt people were employed in Batman and they were heavily used in the final rooftop battle , it is a dummy that takes the Joker 's final long fall from the roof of Gotham City cathedral , possibly enhanced by a rotoscope artist who put in the diminishing image frame by frame .
6 It is other girls who are on set wages who put in the fat work [ i. e. the spacing ] and the house gets the benefit of it .
7 ‘ Not yet , ’ put in the thin man , ‘ but they will be by the time we 're back there .
8 ‘ Holidaying ? ’ put in the thin man .
9 As a Cold War frustrated the yearnings which the people put upon the new organization of the United Nations , a cold war entered Christendom .
10 Here is an example from a question he put to the prime minister on 9 July 1992 :
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