Example sentences of "put [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He put them in the warm water . |
| 2 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
| 3 | These two seemed friendly enough , but their questions about Sweetheart put him on the defensive . |
| 4 | That put him on the 142 mark alongside Sam Torrance ( 72 ) , with McAllister just behind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To my surprise , voices from the Labour Benches shouted , ’ Put him on the Scottish Grand Committee . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Did you know that Queen Victoria put him in the same class as Landseer ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Thank you for flying Maggovertski Airways ; please return the stewardess her pantyhose , put her in the upright position , and kindly pray that the tyres do n't blow . ’ |
| 12 | Charles was relieved that the information put her in the clear ; she had been telling the truth . |
| 13 | He put her behind the mic and the first hit was ‘ Shame ’ , an unstoppable , enormous disco and pop hit in 1977 . |
| 14 | As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’ |
| 15 | Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself . |
| 16 | Cos Paul put it on the next day . |
| 17 | As he put it to the 1955 Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party , ‘ socialist ideas can only triumph when the peoples of Eastern Europe eat like the delegates at this Congress ’ . |
| 18 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 19 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 20 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 21 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 22 | As Thomas Becon put it in the sixteenth century , it was a ‘ duty of children ’ whose parents were ‘ aged and fallen into poverty , so that they are not able to live of themselves , or to get their living by their own industry and labour ’ , to work and care for them and ‘ provide necessaries for them , ‘ just as in their own childhoods ‘ their parents cared and provided for them . ’ |
| 23 | His central point , as he put it before the National Press Club on May 4th , was that ‘ you certainly ca n't help Hong Kong by hurting our economy . ’ |