Example sentences of "[conj] i put [prep] " in BNC.

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1 All night ticket collectors came with torches , and they were followed by police who demanded that I put on proper trousers .
2 I could smell the citronella that I put on my skin to ward off the mosquitoes and feel the breeze beginning to rise from the river .
3 The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world .
4 The application to the local community is one that I put as a challenge to all : How can we help people to take seriously membership in the Eucharistic community of faith ?
5 I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt .
6 Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities .
7 now if when I come back erm the the er the idea that erm the recommendation that I put before you , if this solves that particular need
8 When I took it off afterwards , my hair was a mess , so I put on a turban or tied in back with a band , which is what I do every day .
9 I was naked , so I put on sunglasses and a Led Zeppelin record and I did a little Zeppelin dance . ’
10 I was warm and sleepy but my master kept haranguing me : compliance seemed the easiest way out so I put on my boots , grabbed my cloak and accompanied him down to the Templar chapel .
11 ‘ I knew most of the drivers would take it easy so I put in an attack , ’ he said .
12 Once I put on a tie , I tend not to change it every day .
13 I go , I had the lovely calligraphy pen and I put to Mr and Mrs , cos I always speak to Kevin , I know him
14 Everyone put on the whole uniform including the grey raincoat on top , and I put on my raincoat also , I packed Tommy 's spare garments and my own clothes into the holdall , and was ready .
15 I always cleanse , tone and moisturise and I put on a face masque every week .
16 but if I 'm thinking about myself then yes I look and I put on make-up
17 Her voice blew away the cobwebs and I put on something respectable to cross the road ; she sounded like a child going to a party .
18 Yeah cos I went in that shop and I put on a size ten skirt and it was hanging .
19 And I put in a request to see His Majesty the King .
20 ‘ Before I start a book , I always draw a map of the setting , and I put in people 's houses .
21 and I put in in the sub-directory .
22 If I put on a vacuum cleaner and lie beside it , I go into a complete trance because the one note ringing inside the machine seems to relax me and hypnotise me .
23 Erm Do you know I 've just wo wondered if I put on their Christmas card .
24 ‘ They obviously thought I was doing terribly badly at that time and were very pleased at how well they had rigged me out … until I put on the mac .
25 Until I put in a .
26 Cos I put like
27 But I put on my best , my only , suit and climbed the rickety stairs to his tiny office .
28 By the way , to anybody that 's listening to this , I 'm not really huge but I put on five pounds since I stopped smoking .
29 Well no , well I mean like we do I mean I mean but I mean my gross up about three hundred over Tony 's but I put in many hours right ?
30 In her relations with Willy she has constantly to choose between her ‘ postface ’ and her ‘ preface ’ : ‘ I shall put on my postface and mimagree , unless I put on my preface and go through the routine ’ ( 16,138 ) .
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