Example sentences of "put [pers pn] [prep] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was n't it about time she put him through some of the agony he 'd caused her ? |
| 2 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 3 | In a stand-up scenario , as the crazy newsagent , Merton was on form ( although rarely at his very best ) , but put him in one of his sketches and the limitations of his acting are obvious . |
| 4 | Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs . |
| 5 | As he put it to one of his regional officials : " If Joan of Arc had married and had children , she would not have been Joan of Arc any more . " |
| 6 | As Roosevelt put it in one of his homely comparisons : Say the New Deal is a tree which , as it grows , continually produces rot and dead wood . |