Example sentences of "[noun] put it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors put it to us that every individual has a comfortable , or ‘ setpoint ’ , weight , around which our bodies naturally fluctuate . |
| 2 | Why did Granddad put it in a dump or of the pocket ? |
| 3 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 4 | It 's very much the last attempt — not er , not for , from the point of view of negotiating or er , but , but simply a matter of fact , er we need erm we need to move , we need to have additional sources of , sources of income , that er the type of facility that we 're looking to build will give the club to put it on a firm financial footing , and at the same time to give the local people of the City and er the , the surrounding County er tremendous new facilities . |
| 5 | As the Local Government Chronicle put it in its leading article of 1 November : ’ To introduce poll tax is a mistake , to bring in council tax is a disaster . ’ |
| 6 | A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans . |
| 7 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 8 | In fact , I can describe his manner at that moment no better than the way Miss Kenton puts it in her letter ; it was indeed ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 9 | I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts . |
| 10 | I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and |
| 11 | As Barney Hoskyns put it in his Prince : Imp of the Perverse — ‘ he is where all the desires of pop meet and tangle — their camp cupidon , their locus of signification . ’ |
| 12 | As a peasant from the Kursk guberniia put it in 1922 : ‘ We are not for priests nor for the church , but if only the Comrades would give us a little of what they promise : they promise a school and Socialism , but our hands are still as empty as ever . ’ |
| 13 | Current predictions for the cost of generating electricity with the Super-Phenix put it at about the same as coal but twice as expensive as a conventional reactor . |
| 14 | As one social purity advocate put it in 1949 : ‘ the family is the yardstick to measure values by … and the stability of the family unit is of major importance to the health and welfare of the community ’ . |
| 15 | Ken put it on top of the locker , where it staggered around the perimeter mewing and testing space with its paw . |
| 16 | And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’ |
| 17 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 18 | Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water . |
| 19 | Many similar statements can be found in the Law Reports : as Lord Wright put it in Luxor ( Eastbourne ) Ltd v Cooper [ 1941 ] AC 108 " Decisions on one contract may help by way of analogy and illustration in the decision of another contract . |
| 20 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 21 | The time may not , therefore , be too far away when , as McKinsey put it in their 1989 report , the scenario of ‘ potential unlocked ’ becomes a reality for AEA . |
| 22 | In Chile , in an address to the Congress , Bush stated that the country 's economic policies put it in the " forefront of the free-market movement now taking hold across Latin America " and that this made it a " prime candidate " for debt relief proposed under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative . |
| 23 | I think you 've probably had enough actually , you get he 's , just have one , one little bit , put your finger in , and then we 're gon na put it in the , er three fingers put it in the wash |
| 24 | And there 's a filter light and he said oh you 'll be waiting here ages put it in neutral just as |
| 25 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 26 | I think I a bit put it in the back now . |
| 27 | The danger of criticizing the appointment of particular judges was shown when in June 1980 a Belfast jury awarded £50,000 damages to a Northern Ireland county court judge for a libel contained in an article in the Economist suggesting that his appointment had been based , as The Times put it in a leading article , not so much on his ability but on the fact that he was a Roman Catholic . |
| 28 | According to Eurotunnel it is £7bn ; the contractors put it at £7.5bn . |
| 29 | The hearing officer dismissed this argument which a fortiori would have meant that the ‘ greater the departure an employee 's invention represented relative to conventional technology , the less would be his chance of succeeding in his application under section 40(1) , since such an invention would be likely to require a greater degree of development work to put it into practice . |
| 30 | And this is happened all over the country , each area are doing the same thing and all of this this er produce this declaration of intent and ask the , the head of the er council to put it to their members and get the support of their members . |