Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] to put " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used my shirt to put out the flames . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 3 | The electricity people called to ask my permission to put poles in my land so that they could take it even higher , and I agreed to it . |
| 4 | ‘ I had made up my mind to put this proposition to you today , ’ he said , ‘ but I see now that this was not the right moment to approach you , ma petite . |
| 5 | By this it will have come to your lordship 's ears what little success my attempt to put forward your terms for negotiation achieved in the council . |
| 6 | This month , however , is my chance to put all that to rights . |
| 7 | At least the President saw enough sense to agree to my request to put you in charge of the unit . |
| 8 | look at my mother pinching my meat to put on yours |
| 9 | It was my task to put the material together . |
| 10 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
| 11 | ‘ The majority of the old No. 3 Troop volunteered and I crawled out of my foxhole to put in my application ’ . |
| 12 | How do you know which fuse to put ? |
| 13 | The union is constantly looking out for ways like this to show promoters , record companies and the rest of the music industry the right way to treat musicians , and to remind the business yet again of their responsibility to put back into music just a small part of the rewards which they enjoy , thanks to the skills of musicians . |
| 14 | She had made up her mind to put the past behind her . |
| 15 | POWER firm National Grid is believed to be offering ‘ sweeteners ’ to landowners in its attempt to put electricity pylons across the North-East countryside . |
| 16 | A question for the middlemen is the choice of which side to put the rope . |
| 17 | She escaped into the house and went through to her bedroom to put on a dress . |
| 18 | Animal rights campaigners , the architects of the initiative , indicated their intention to put the issue before the electorate again . |
| 19 | The flickering light was fading ; it was winning its battle to put out the flames . |
| 20 | For Bakhtin , the radical force of the novelistic was grounded precisely in its capacity to put into play a multiplicity of languages , and parody opened up official discourse to travesty and irreverence : |
| 21 | To write , as one historian has recently , that " a sign of the vitality and strength of Orthodox churchmanship in the eighteenth century was its capacity to put forth new branches : Methodism and Evangelicalism " is to make one point while obscuring another . |
| 22 | Ruth took a deep breath and summoned all her courage to put into words what she had decided after her sleepless night at Mrs Taylor 's . |
| 23 | A woman she passed was telling her husband to put on his shirt or he would bum . |
| 24 | She groped around for her panties and shorts , ducking her head to put them on so that he would n't see the tears gathering in the corners of her eyes . |
| 25 | with her head to put her thing on and I said you ai n't got ta go . |
| 26 | Where the detective short story had as its object the displaying of an act of detection , the crime short story or suspense short story has as its object to put a person or persons into danger and give a revelation to one or more people , be they the perpetrator of a crime , its victim or simply a witness . |
| 27 | No one can achieve anything without the help of others and we are not talking about militancy , more the desire to support people in their quest to put Darlington to rights . |
| 28 | Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites … |
| 29 | As part of its drive to put pleasure back into rail travel , Regional Railways is invoking lyricism , literature and local history to capture the scenic flavour of its Great Railway Journeys . |
| 30 | It was not until they had rounded a bend in the road , and the echoes of Master Thomas 's good wishes had long since died away , that Isabel managed to pull herself together enough to recall her resolution to put fitzAlan at a safe distance — and keep him there . |