Example sentences of "put [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | My young son put them into a barrelling machine to clean them , so they may have changed colour as a result . |
2 | The packet of Durex , bought in a chemist 's at Ipswich to meet an eventuality that Rosie had never allowed to materialize , lived permanently in his wallet ; he put them in a brown envelope in case a chance sighting made his intentions too crudely obvious . |
3 | He put them in the warm water . |
4 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
5 | My need of M. Chaillot 's advice put me in a weak position . |
6 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey put himself in a self-conscious pose of memory , as if rehearsing for a television down-memory-lane programme . |
7 | If he boldly avowed his real purpose thus publicly , he put himself in the wrong , and his cause past any help from the law , which would tamper here in the march only on unassailable grounds . |
8 | Pringle put one through a big gate via Wright 's edge . |
9 | The defendant , who paid £10 per deal , said that the amphetamine put him on a high for an hour and that he used to escape pressures and worries . |
10 | These two seemed friendly enough , but their questions about Sweetheart put him on the defensive . |
11 | That put him on the 142 mark alongside Sam Torrance ( 72 ) , with McAllister just behind . |
12 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
13 | What Hornung had done was to take his brother-in-law 's famous detective , Sherlock Holmes , and put him on the wrong side of the law ; a friendly dedication acknowledged the debt . |
14 | To my surprise , voices from the Labour Benches shouted , ’ Put him on the Scottish Grand Committee . ’ |
15 | And yesterday Darlington bus inspector Malcolm Humble told how a Sure Style salesman put him through a five-hour ordeal before threatening to send him a bill for his time . |
16 | Lowe put him through an intensive course of twice-a-week sprint training and night hill-running . |
17 | But it was with the coming of sound , in 1929 , that Colman 's Hollywood career really came into its own : the producer Sam Goldwyn was the first to realize the magic of that infinitely poetic , English voice , and put him under a long-term contract which was to last virtually the whole of the rest of his life . |
18 | Already there was the smell of roast beef and the white-coated cooks stood by with their carving knives waiting to hack the poor beast up and put him between a thousand Yorkshire teacakes . |
19 | He persuaded Reid 's wife , actress Dorothy Davenport , to sign Wally 's commitment papers which put him into a private sanatorium . |
20 | Election defeats at the hands of Shaftesbury , now lord chancellor , in 1673 ‘ put him into a great rage ’ and brought him to the fore in parliamentary debates . |
21 | In fact , she thought , tonsure his greying hair and put him into a plain robe and he would have passed for a tubby , somewhat benign-looking monk . |
22 | Keep the old man in there , get him out in good time to defrost , maybe even put him in a hot bath to remove any traces of his preservation . |
23 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
24 | The court had taken Harvey away from his father and put him in the foster home ‘ until such time as the father can control his drinking and make a safe home for the boy . ’ |
25 | Did you know that Queen Victoria put him in the same class as Landseer ? |
26 | Suspecting that her diarrhoea and wind might be due to Candida infection , she put her on an anti-Candida diet and a course of anti-fungal drugs . |
27 | Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery . |
28 | But when the frail widow let the man into her home to shelter , he knocked her to the floor and put her through a savage attack . |
29 | Oh , I might , thought Lydia , but she said : ‘ I did n't poison Betty either ’ , in a childishly defensive way which put her in a worse mood . |
30 | I paid 100 pesos for them to tidy her up and put her in a 900 peso coffin on which I paid a 200 peso deposit . |