Example sentences of "[vb past] to put [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped to put it back on again , clamping it on his head and holding it there . |
| 2 | Horrified at the thought , Paige tried to put her off . |
| 3 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 4 | But as for putting poison in his wine , or setting a pitfall under his feet at a hunt — no , he 'd hew off the head of any man who tried to put him up to it . |
| 5 | She tried to put him out of her mind while she drove along and had almost succeeded when she pulled up outside the surgery and saw a car standing in the yard . |
| 6 | One MP even tried to put him right last night . |
| 7 | He 's not been too bad but I tried to put him to sleep upstairs did n't I this afternoon ? |
| 8 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 9 | Er even the headmaster said , he tried to put me off . |
| 10 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 11 | tried to put them at our at the cost of our of the work for quite a while . |
| 12 | It was all very well conceiving these things in the abstract ; the problems emerged when you tried to put them into practice . |
| 13 | Initially my son did n't want to see me , the youngest girl thought it was her fault and tried to put it right , while the middle one seemed completely untouched by the whole thing . |
| 14 | When he tried to put it in my back passage , I said no . |
| 15 | It did n't happen often , but when it did , we tried to put it from our minds — to remember only what we were trying to do for our country . " |
| 16 | The Copts will say we tried to put it on him and the Moslems will say we let him off . ’ |
| 17 | Er we always tried to put it over at er Everest product prices . |
| 18 | Mrs Kipling said her husband tried to put it out with a jacket . |
| 19 | Mr Roberts said when the men were arrested , Angela Wolfe , 18 , of Thompson Street West , Darlington , Drummond 's girlfriend took £14,267 to Newcastle where she tried to put it in a safety deposit box . |
| 20 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 21 | Anyway , I sat down and tried to put you right out of my head by immersing myself in work . |
| 22 | Absolutely , tried , I tried to put you off , but I did n't manage it did I . |
| 23 | Fred Bradley stayed very much in the background and his soft , kind eyes helped to put her at ease . |
| 24 | These people and a host of others provided ideas and helped to put them into effect ; the guiding hand and political boss was Franklin Roosevelt himself . |
| 25 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 26 | The union then supported me further when I got another job and was a steward there , a branch secretary a district committee member and then on the regional committee and they also helped to put me through polytechnic and into the job that I did looking at mergers at the University of Warwick . |
| 27 | We did not really listen , but it helped to put us in the right mood . |
| 28 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 29 | When she came to put them back , they were both put back upside down . |
| 30 | Not much of a job when it came to put them on like the erm you know the pipe that pushes them out ? |