Example sentences of "[adv] put [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only put her in there for a minute . ’ |
| 2 | The negative side of all this was ben Eliezer 's polemics against straight-faced , over-serious rabbinism ; against those whose understanding of God 's nature was austere and unfatherly ; those who , while seeking to elevate the Most High , merely put him out of touch with his own children ; debarred them from his welcoming presence by a system or learning that became ‘ frivolous ’ in its intensity : not that its perpetrators could be frivolous : black was their colour , even as severity was their posture — as becomes the frozen-in-soul . |
| 3 | With the gentry his charm and distinction soon put him on excellent terms . |
| 4 | ‘ Just put her straight . |
| 5 | Lifting her out of the water we were totally silent , and neither of us seemed to be willing to commit ourselves on a weight so we just put her in the sling and let the scales do the talking . |
| 6 | There I got on a bus that took me to Le Hospitalet près l'Andorre , and through the frontier post at Pas de la Casa , over the Envalira pass and down into a land whose mountainous beauty at once put me under a spell I shall never forget . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) As he was obliged to do , the charging officer ( at a time when the Director was already interesting herself in the matter ) had told the applicant that he was not obliged to say anything ; yet only two weeks later the Serious Fraud Office was warning the applicant that he was going to be interviewed under compulsory powers ; and it was not much longer still before the office formally put him on notice that he would be asked questions which he would be compelled to answer on pain of punishment . |
| 8 | Penda had taken Eadfrith , son of Eadwine , into Mercia with him after the battle of Hatfield , possibly with the intention of restoring him one day in Deira as a dependent ruler , but perhaps ill-advisedly put him to death during the reign of Oswald ( HE 11 , 20 ) — though conceivably prevailed upon to do so by Oswald . |
| 9 | A Princeton professor who investigated the campaigns a few years later put it more bitterly : ‘ Cynical pseudo-egalitarianism replaced an older commitment to the maintenance of national standards . ’ |
| 10 | The step-sisters left without even a change of clothing : ‘ it was acting a novel , being an incarnate romance ’ , as Mary later put it . |
| 11 | But we did n't see any of that ; we did n't notice that , as O later put it , his eyes were n't just dark that night but almost blinded , blinded with grief . |
| 12 | As Nemesius , Bishop of Emesa in the fourth century AD , later put it : |
| 13 | Despite all these considerations , Tito 's intransigence left Alexander with no option — as Harold Macmillan , present at the conference , later put it in his diary — but to give " instruction to the planners for a full appreciation of the forces required to throw out the Yugoslavs " , while referring the matter to " his two Governments " . |
| 14 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 15 | Out of the kindness of their enormous hearts , the giants had lifted her out of her icy misery and carefully put her down in the warmer waters where she was to be found today . |
| 16 | Morris 's presence also put him off his stroke on the phone . |
| 17 | Ruth now put him at no more than five-and-twenty . |
| 18 | Despite his casual dress of jeans and shirt , there was still an air of sophistication about him that was in sharp variance to those around him , and she cursed Donal again for his stupid sense of humour because it now put her in the most ridiculous position . |
| 19 | They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker . |
| 20 | Keep the old man in there , get him out in good time to defrost , maybe even put him in a hot bath to remove any traces of his preservation . |
| 21 | Dorothy Sayers ' Harriet Vane was 31 at her Gaudy , yet her nostalgia and sense of life-lived-since put her nearer our mid-forties ; paradoxically I think we 're much closer to our former selves — or do they all say that ? |
| 22 | Giving his sparring partner one last crack on the jaw which effectively put him out of the reckoning , Adam rose to his feet , and took the gun from her suddenly nerveless fingers . |
| 23 | JOHN Major will go on the offensive today to try and save his job after the Tories virtually put him on probation . |
| 24 | I am not a Christian because I do not credit , as I earlier put it , that nature and history could be other than closed causal nexuses or believe that there can be events which are in some way qualitatively different from other events . |
| 25 | ‘ I then put him in touch with the chairman whom he spoke to for 10 minutes at two o'clock . |
| 26 | And if a pooch gets a little paunchy with all this pampering then put him on a health kick . |
| 27 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 28 | When I reluctantly put him back in his shoe box , I had a desperate need to be close to ‘ Fred ’ the person . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'll go into North Inlet and quietly put her on the beach there . ’ |
| 30 | And I suggested to him that I sedate him , essentially put him under general anaesthesia with morphine , and let nature take its course . |