Example sentences of "[adv] put [pos pn] finger " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mandeville suddenly put his finger to his lips and stepped out of the window embrasure . |
| 2 | Now that 's the big stretched can you , if you just put your finger on there you 'll see how sticky it is , can you feel it 's warm and sticky and |
| 3 | It 's there you are you just put your finger in there a |
| 4 | and I ca n't just put my finger on Abington Grove . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothin' you could exactly put yer finger on , like , ’ said Carrie ominously . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've just put your finger on it , Admiral . ’ |
| 7 | Just put your finger into the ring on top of the box and lift it out of the water ! |
| 8 | Now , you and I could sit down , as many people could then , eighty , ninety years ago and write a whole lot of things with the world , but it took the , the Irish writer and whip G K Chesterton to really put his finger on it . |
| 9 | He was ashamed that his mother had so accurately put her finger on where he spent his nights . |
| 10 | C. S. Lewis ( 1979 : 9 ) surely put his finger on the proper Christian approach to evil spirits in the preface to The Screwtape Letters : ‘ There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils . |
| 11 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 12 | He had acutely put his finger upon the fact that the new tools of mass culture , television and radio , exposed the old ways of the royal household to a merciless stare from which they did not emerge well . |
| 13 | But what they were she could not quite put her finger on . |
| 14 | Something primal , which she could n't quite put her finger on . |
| 15 | Nightbreed almost does , but fails for some reason I ca n't quite put my finger on . |
| 16 | Ca n't quite put my finger on what 's happened — just something in the air . |
| 17 | Ca n't quite put my finger , if I had one , on just how . |
| 18 | Something was happening amongst the youth movement that so admired him and he could n't quite put his finger on it . |
| 19 | He could n't quite put his finger on it . |
| 20 | The Captain of the Lymington-Yarmouth ferry could not quite put his finger on what was wrong . |
| 21 | ‘ Nothing we can quite put our finger on . |
| 22 | But he says Shakespeare certainly put his finger on the truth when he wrote : ‘ There are more things in heaven and earth … than are dreamt in ( your ) philosophy . ’ |