Example sentences of "put it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table . |
| 2 | As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ . |
| 3 | He put it on the floor . |
| 4 | The panel came away after a little while ; he put it on the floor in front of him , and wriggled through on his elbows and knees into the darkness beyond . |
| 5 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
| 6 | Billy would n't notice if she put it on the back seat . |
| 7 | Taking the parcel from her , he put it on the back seat . |
| 8 | The pigskin suitcase was his ; he put it on the bed and filled it with essentials . |
| 9 | She put it on the kitchen table now but suspected it would still be lumps of ice when they came to eat it . |
| 10 | As the New York Daily News put it on the eve of the ballot : ‘ The Muck Stops Here ! ’ |
| 11 | and a bloke down in Cardiff put it on the jig and he erm he er does all the taxi 's you know |
| 12 | Hey right guess how they put We Three Kings , it goes this is how Gary put it on the sheet , he goes We three kings , no is bitter perfume he will die and go in his tomb . |
| 13 | Michael Ramsey took Eden 's letter into the chapel but knew what his answer would be even before he put it on the altar . |
| 14 | When Camille entered the open-plan area that was Barbs 's kitchen and dining-room , she realized she was still holding Barbs 's handbag , and she put it on the table with a swift , rejecting movement as though it was hot or unclean . |
| 15 | Helen put it on the table . |
| 16 | He put it on the table and fixed the end of it under the lamp . |
| 17 | Two months ago he put it on the market for £2 million . |
| 18 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 19 | At Headingley , David Gower , thirty-three years old , became the youngest player to reach one hundred Test matches — or , as Don Mosey put it on the radio , he reached his hundredth Test in fewer games than anyone else . |
| 20 | Slipping off her ring , she put it on the bedside cabinet with an inward sigh . |
| 21 | And despite their recent successes , Mickey put it to the star 's coach , Don Jameson , that they 've yet to find a way round Harringay 's defensive system . |
| 22 | Pipkin put it to the ground . |
| 23 | The ball fell clear and Benjamin put it into the corner of the net from 15 yards . |
| 24 | On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track . |
| 25 | Sara had a key now and with a sense of the importance of the occasion she put it in the door and they entered the house . |
| 26 | I mean , she put it in the freezer so it 's gon na er all |
| 27 | The music is lost , but Cavalieri 's contemporaries agree that it was he who , as Peri put it in the preface to his Euridice ( 1600 ) , ‘ before anyone else made our music ’ ( i.e. the ‘ nuova maniera di canto ’ ) ‘ heard on the stage ’ . |
| 28 | As Arthur Koestler put it in The Act of Creation : |
| 29 | I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts . |
| 30 | I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and |