Example sentences of "be [adv] put [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be that your owner might consider replacing you with a Basenji if you do n't quieten down , and your nose will be properly put out of joint . |
| 2 | If you are a purist , you may be somewhat put off by the lame , if not sticky English translations of words in Bach 's Cantatas Nos. 201 & 68 , but do n't be , for the exceeding purity of Dame ‘ Bella 's ’ voice overcomes all . |
| 3 | But this is something else again , having socialist ideas is one thing , betraying your country another , people who do that have no rights at all , that 's my opinion , they ought to be just put up against a wall and shot . |
| 4 | A husband who has a demanding job , and is used to returning home to find dinner ready to be put on the table , may be distinctly put out if his wife is upstairs helping his mother-in-law onto the commode instead . |
| 5 | We might , for example , find that in a particular residential area there are unexpectedly large numbers of households with ‘ lodgers ’ and so we might want to add this as a specific category in the household composition ; or we might find that on an attitude question views are rather more extreme than we had anticipated and so a new response category could be usefully put in to save us noting responses under ‘ Others , specify … ’ in many cases . |
| 6 | ‘ If I were not , I would be considerably put out at having been compelled to tidy my desk ! ’ he said . |