Example sentences of "[subord] he put [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only got Rosie 's help because he put it to you ; of course , it would be in a very nice way , that I was too tired to give him his rights . ’ |
| 2 | This stuff ( as he put it to himself ) often does work up to a point . |
| 3 | As he put it to the 1955 Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party , ‘ socialist ideas can only triumph when the peoples of Eastern Europe eat like the delegates at this Congress ’ . |
| 4 | He held out his hand and she gave it to him , watching him as he put it to his lips , her eyes fixed in an almost mesmerised stare . |
| 5 | He wanted to finish reading the works of Walter Machin that were available , perhaps have a good look at Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's autobiography and other writings , talk to people who knew Machin — grilling senior citizens in pubs , as he put it to himself : filling them with weak beer to stimulate their weaker memories . |
| 6 | As he put it to a prominent resister shortly after the liberation , France was not a country just beginning , but a country continuing . |
| 7 | As he put it to one of his regional officials : " If Joan of Arc had married and had children , she would not have been Joan of Arc any more . " |
| 8 | As he put it to his son Philippe in February 1946 : " one can not be both the man for great storms and the man for squalid deals . " |