Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] put [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time .
2 ‘ Well , in that case we can open the presents and put them round the tree .
3 ‘ Following the surrender period there will be a three-month-long spell to detect those carrying knives and put them before the courts , ’ he said .
4 Then the Scots raided down from the borders and put it to the torch .
5 ‘ You do n't wash your feet and put them on the dirty floor , do you ? ’ he asked as he got ready for the guests who would soothe the painful passage towards the critics .
6 He used to clean all our shoes and put them along the floor .
7 ‘ I have n't the faintest , ’ said Shirley , taking off her outdoor shoes and putting them on the rack , putting on her indoor slippers , and guiltily , belatedly , bending down to wipe the shoe marks off the linoleum with spit and hanky .
8 And they carry them in the rubbers and put them in the mangers .
9 There were these huge plants in disintegrating tubs , so I said : ‘ We must get concrete blocks and put them round the tubs , so they can just fall apart inside ’ . ’
10 ‘ Well , I think I 'd best fill some of the 'ot water bottles an' put them in the bed right away , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ just in case there 's a bit of cold about the sheets .
11 ‘ People have very quickly got used to the idea of crushing their cans and putting them in the special bins provided .
12 Place a sausage on each of the remaining cocktail sticks and put them in the other orange .
13 So we 're definitely agreed that we ask the Town Clerk to make those two contacts and to put it on the agenda for the Planning Committee ?
14 Willie watched him in horror as he picked up the wriggling worms and put them inside the tin .
15 Break the chocolate into pieces and put them inside the mould .
16 He turned with difficulty and got the keys out of the pocket of his trousers and put them on the chair seat .
17 Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days .
18 And er there used to be these er like Scotch people you know , with kilts , with swords and put them on the floor and dance round the swords and .
19 First , make the pies and put them in the oven .
20 Then I wind them into balls and put them in the oven to dry , and that 's how I come to have all those woollen articles to sell . ’
21 Now rose I do n't know how many of you when you were little used to collect rose petals and put them in the jam jars did you ?
22 Managers were encouraged by corporate head office to eradicate such excesses at the work-outs , not to refer them to committees or put them through the proper channels .
23 It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing
24 Erm win number five , a rose bag , right , now you can keep the tickets if you want , but get all them little plastic things and put them in the bin
25 So we used to go up there and get our .008″ banjo strings and put them on the top and it really transformed what you could do . ’
26 You know I very carefully picked up my glasses and put them in the case and put it in my in there
27 ‘ We seek the power in order to do all that , to stop being spectators and start being negotiators , to take our country off the sidelines and put it in the mainstream of advance where it should rightly be .
28 Remove the remaining needles and put them into the ‘ outside needles ’ jar .
29 Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire
30 I cut down young trees and put them in the ground , in a half-circle around the front of my tent .
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