Example sentences of "[noun sg] put [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You 'd like that , would n't you , Leith ? ’ he had the unmitigated nerve to put her on the spot . |
| 3 | Fairness to his creditors demands that he should not be able to deplete his assets in this way in a deliberate attempt to put them beyond the reach of his creditors . |
| 4 | On their return to Orkney , however , the Social Work Department put them into the Camoran Children 's Home in Kirkwall . |
| 5 | look , yes you are , you er , you 're mummy puts you in the front , but she 's a lot taller than I am , and she can tip it up easier , I need James in the front because he 's the lightest , you 're the heaviest |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think I a bit put it in the back now . |
| 8 | This of course put me in the wrong . |
| 9 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
| 10 | what a shame put it in the bank |
| 11 | More shaming had been his reluctance to put it to the test . |
| 12 | Mummy tell daddy to put me in the hall . |
| 13 | There 's nothing quite like sexy lingerie to put you in the mood so knock him dead on Valentine 's Day with some of this sizzling underwear from the latest Freemans Spring/Summer collection . |
| 14 | These two seemed friendly enough , but their questions about Sweetheart put him on the defensive . |
| 15 | As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ . |
| 16 | Hungary 's Democratic Forum , whose Hungary-first populism puts it on the right , also objects to the pace of reform that the Free Democrats want . |
| 17 | I know you play golf it might be a danger putting you on the golf courses . |
| 18 | We often feel like one of the black sheep of the independent sector — accepting a licence fee puts you in the not-serious programme makers ' league . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , all this business putting me on the carpet … implying that I might leave you short . ’ |
| 20 | MIPS claims all RISC chips offer roughly the same performance and that its R4400 96 SPECint89 score puts it in the same league as HP , distinguished by its significantly lower price and wide availability . |
| 21 | The war boar is a dangerous beast whose charge puts him in the same category as a fully armoured , lance-armed knight . |
| 22 | Havant take over the daunting task of challenging for the European Cup in Amsterdam , with Hounslow moving to the south of Holland to compete at Vught where a favourable draw puts them among the favourites to reach Monday 's final . |
| 23 | Parapsychologists have always complained that they did n't get enough funding , Randi says , so this was an ideal opportunity to put them to the test . |
| 24 | He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government . |
| 25 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 26 | But , carrying baskets of buffalo dung from the pit by the cattle shed , along the road and down towards the mango tree to put it on the furthest field , my nose was burnt before I 'd walked twenty yards . |
| 27 | With the watery light in imminent danger of failing , we wedged our empty mugs in the sink , dropped the dock lines and took Islander out into Southampton Water to put her to the test . |
| 28 | Breath-taking flight simulation puts you at the joystick from biplane to helicopter . |
| 29 | Today , the average intake of 20g a day puts us among the lowest fibre-consumers in the world . |
| 30 | And the next day — well nearly — the Service put me on the list as an Administration Trainee . |