Example sentences of "putting [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt he 's putting me to the test to see how good I 'll be at sorting it out . |
| 2 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 3 | It 's a good idea of yours putting me on the floor Rocket . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , all this business putting me on the carpet … implying that I might leave you short . ’ |
| 5 | Thanks for putting me in the picture , Patrick . ’ |
| 6 | Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts , and also for putting them into the storage of memory , but words can also become snares , decoys or straight jackets . |
| 7 | This was again very close with only one goal scored by Cyril Bailey of Mullingar putting them into the Final . |
| 8 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 9 | Now she has refined those skills with the help of judo and is putting them at the service of her country . |
| 10 | After putting them on the rail the sellers sent the buyers an invoice stating ‘ At sole risk of purchaser after putting fish on rail here . ’ |
| 11 | He 's just putting , just putting , I got three eggs , I was just putting them on the bed I could n't be bothered with them then . |
| 12 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 13 | He then tried putting them on the roll — about tyre . |
| 14 | He 's putting them on the side , like , I 'm asleep in bed , he goes this one 's for you . |
| 15 | Well , he said , I 'm putting them on the train and they 'll be in Valley on the seven o'clock train for you On Friday night this was . |
| 16 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |
| 17 | ‘ I have n't the faintest , ’ said Shirley , taking off her outdoor shoes and putting them on the rack , putting on her indoor slippers , and guiltily , belatedly , bending down to wipe the shoe marks off the linoleum with spit and hanky . |
| 18 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 19 | Mrs Foster bobbed about collecting the items and putting them on the counter . |
| 20 | ‘ We have the whole story here in these papers , ’ said Mr Brownlow , putting them on the table . |
| 21 | ‘ And there 's some shortbread and chocolates and a jar of chicken breasts , ’ she said , taking them out of the basket and putting them on the table . |
| 22 | By putting them through the assessment and certification process we are demonstrating that confidence , as well as showing our commitment to quality assurance . |
| 23 | He found them before putting them through the saw ? |
| 24 | The High Elf army fell on the besiegers of Lothern , putting them to the sword . |
| 25 | Yeah , we went through these stories , and tried to link all different things they go under , got attitudes , weight , sex , exploitation , memories , mother and child relationships , old fashioned settings , aspirations , working women , ageism , husband and wife , loneliness , change , working in middle upper classes , racism and grief , and then , we started again , through the stories giving numbers , and putting them under the headings we thought they came under , but the thing is , we 've got a lot of them under all , well not all the headings , but a couple of the headings . |
| 26 | There were a lot more long balls down the middle of the field than usual , simply because Beeny was putting them there whereas Lukic had got into the habit of putting them in the stand . |
| 27 | I 'm putting them in the back of the buggy . |
| 28 | Instead of putting them in the Credit Card Centre 's outgoing mail — they were all addressed to ‘ problem ’ areas — Steve called in the Fraud Section who made sure they were sent registered mail in plain envelopes . |
| 29 | so I 've been putting them in the washing machine so maybe |
| 30 | No I ended up putting them in the box Joan had him out yesterday . |