Example sentences of "[conj] i put [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I put my hands together every night — with Ma , when she 's home , otherwise on my own — I have not prayed since the rainbow incident . |
| 2 | It was impossible for the skipper to get out " , although I put his parachute on for him he remained at the controls and ordered the crew to bale out . |
| 3 | It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice . |
| 4 | I found that I put them back into their correct order with ease and , for the first and last time , achieved some distinction in the marking . |
| 5 | I think that I put it the other way round last time . |
| 6 | You may , perhaps , have thought that I put my point of view too emphatically to you on a matter on which you hold strong views , whereas I am not a partisan on the question of the death penalty . |
| 7 | cos there 's a little coffee table sort of thing that I put my script on |
| 8 | But it is not their wish that I put myself into their shoes , rather than living free and wishing that for them also . |
| 9 | ‘ Corsages were kept in a little drop of water , ’ Harry explained , ‘ but you ca n't plunge a bouquet in a drop of water , so I put them over a bowl of water supported by two canes . |
| 10 | I was afraid of getting an arrow in my eyes , but I suddenly remembered I still had an old pair of reading glasses in my pocket , so I put them on and continued my work . |
| 11 | The tent-pole bag was torn , so I put it on one side with the sewing kit . |
| 12 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 14 | Angela , 19 , from Woolton and presently studying medicine at Nottingham University , says : ‘ I had all the classic symptoms of flu so I put it down to that . |
| 15 | I 'm sort of kneeling there , so I put my hand on Marie 's back to make her feel better , but she rolls away from me . |
| 16 | Everyone was silent , so I put my hand up . |
| 17 | But he would n't lift his head so I put my hand to his cheek , which startled him , slid it under his chin and lifted his face . |
| 18 | I heard him mention something about organs to another guest so I put my oar in and started such a nice conversation . |
| 19 | I knew there was no time to lose and no point in hesitating — I was going to explode soon — so I put my head down and broke free from Jamie and the girl , running off down the street . |
| 20 | This was a very old set and did not always work ; as I did not make contact with the control tower I came round and I saw that it was all clear for me to land , so I put my wheels down and made my approach . |
| 21 | One day at the Legation he had produced boxing gloves , and instructed Brian and me to put them on . |
| 22 | So what I do is , I , I turn one off at night downstairs and I put one on in the bedroom |
| 23 | And I put myself out to find out what they liked best . |
| 24 | I finish them and I put them away . |
| 25 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 26 | My hands are shaking again and I put them between my legs . |
| 27 | There were eggs from the chickens and I put them in boxes . |
| 28 | Oh yes , my curtains have arrived — Heather just got them finished before going to Australia , and I put them up last week . |
| 29 | Some of these things as well , they 've been pinching back from upstairs , toys they , they 've played with when they were smaller and they do n't play with them now and I put them upstairs out of the way and they keep going and finding them and bringing them down . |
| 30 | And I put them in back of her hood cos she could n't hold my hand . |