Example sentences of "[verb] put [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plot has thickened — a twist of fate and cunning has put into their hands a letter that seals their deaths ! |
| 2 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 3 | All the ladies had put on their best floral evening frocks , the flags left over from the Coronation came into their own again , the fairy lights were lit on the verandah , and the gramophone churned out all the favourites : " Jealous Heart " , " Pawnshop on the Corner " , " Tennessee Waltz " , and lots of Glenn Miller . |
| 4 | Already there was a small queue of young people at the café door , for this was Saturday night and the boys had put on their one-hundred-and-thirty-rouble English wool suits and the girls had fifty-rouble pointed shoes wrapped in a parcel , for they were far too valuable to wear out on the icy streets . |
| 5 | That , and the discovery that she could not bear a man near her in the early days after the rape ; so she had feigned an illness , explained as the consequence of her breaking her engagement with Havvie , which , of course , had caused an immense furore inside and outside of society , and Mama and Papa had put off their visit to England , and sent her loving letters , for she had written that she had discovered that she did not really love Havvie at all , had merely been beglamoured by his appearance , name and title . |
| 6 | Judging by the hard work they 've put into their music over the last three years , that success could just be round the corner . |
| 7 | We have had occasions where people have mis-dialled when they 've put on their diversion , and it 's gone to somewhere completely different , and the people at the other end can not understand why they 're getting phone calls for somebody who does n't work in their office . |
| 8 | " The material cost your aunt a pound a yard and you should see what they 've put in their place . |
| 9 | Not really , they 've put in their treaty that er Berlin is the capital of the United Germany , but that the seat of government will be chosen by the newly elected all-German parliament , which has got to be chosen early in December , and they could still say ‘ well we have the capital in Berlin , but the seat of the government will remain in Bonn , and up in Berlin the president will have his office and some meetings will take place , but the ministries and foreign embassies and so on , and all the traffic jams that go with that , can jolly well stay in Bonn ’ . |
| 10 | And this is the basis on which the D O E have put in their figure , it 's the basis on which we have put in a figure for vacant dwellings , and also the H B F. |