Example sentences of "[adv] put his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it still interested him , if only to put his mind at rest . |
| 2 | John was very gradually edging along the floor towards me , and at last he was near enough to put his head down on my knee , like a penitent dog creeping to its angry master when it thinks he 's had time to forget its offence . |
| 3 | If Ken had only put his mind to it he might have in the end come up with something even better . |
| 4 | He would gently put his point of view and add " go tell your master " . |
| 5 | ‘ Golden Opinion is pretty sensational , and Zilzal had better put his tennis shoes on in Florida — he 'll need them , ’ was the volley from the French champion jockey . |
| 6 | Dorcas gently put his arm around her . |
| 7 | Unless this means actual ballot-rigging , it must refer to bribing people not to put their names forward at deme level for the ballot for the Council ; the candidate who ‘ eagerly put his name forward ’ according to Lysias ( xxxi. 33 ) is evidence that this stage of the process was voluntary . |
| 8 | Mandeville suddenly put his finger to his lips and stepped out of the window embrasure . |
| 9 | If he 'll only put his shoulder to the wheel . |
| 10 | but that 's only putting his hand out without being brutal about it , that 's not as dangerous as being coming out entirely from behind the shield . |
| 11 | Forster settled down , only putting his eye to the slit every half minute , not continually as he had started to do . |
| 12 | Right , but the way you 're describing the process it seems I get an image of someone gently putting his hand on the collar |
| 13 | The year she died Sir Walter Raleigh was in South America , on his last ill-fated search for Eldorado : he had , like many of his contemporaries , quite literally put his life on the line to find this worldly paradise . |
| 14 | You see , Neil 's already put his side about , we worked er how can you hold us responsible for them being late in when |
| 15 | What should we do put Clayton 's corned beef on a plate and just put his cheese and potato pie on a on another plate ? |
| 16 | And he just put his head down . |
| 17 | On one occasion he announced to all those assembled at Apollo Place that he had had enough of life and went downstairs to put his head in the oven . |
| 18 | Uncle Ernie 's fall at the first was hardly reassuring but Remittance Man soon put his rider 's mind at rest . |
| 19 | Her sense of its deliberate concealment was overwhelmingly strong-it had been placed out of sight , but in a place where its owner could easily put his hand on it . |
| 20 | Erm I mean I 'm concerned again through his eyesight that i were we to put him as the assistant and put him on a machine , that he might just put his hand somewhere and get his hand bloody trapped or whatever with his eyesight . |
| 21 | to put it on he can just put his hand behind it . |
| 22 | He did n't exactly put his foot on my chest but he had me all right . |
| 23 | However , by the time Huckleberry 's class was called some thirty minutes later , he had dissipated a lot of his anxiety through movement and was no longer putting his tongue over the bit . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's just putting his shirt on . |
| 25 | What about just putting his weapon on the ground ? |
| 26 | Yong had already put his cargo together , and we helped him supervise its loading aboard Sinar Surya . |
| 27 | And and Chris has just put his head in his hands and said I ca n't do it . |
| 28 | They were in the Mercedes now , and Miguel was already putting his foot down , skidding a little on the gravel of the road as he took the bends . |
| 29 | The florist came up earlier but she was asleep , and he did n't even come into the room , just put his head round the door and left her some flowers ; the night nurse has put them out in the corridor . |
| 30 | and he says he 's after me and he just puts his arm round me and then he 's alright after that |