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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To my surprise , voices from the Labour Benches shouted , ’ Put him on the Scottish Grand Committee . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Charles was relieved that the information put her in the clear ; she had been telling the truth . |
| 10 | He put her behind the mic and the first hit was ‘ Shame ’ , an unstoppable , enormous disco and pop hit in 1977 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |