Example sentences of "put [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went over to the bed , climbed on top of it , put my head on the pillow and fell asleep . |
| 2 | I tiptoed along the corridor and put my head gingerly round the semi-open door . |
| 3 | I answered it , then put my head round the kitchen door . |
| 4 | Just put my head back on the seat and closed my eyes . |
| 5 | I put my other hand up to my face too , and put my head down on my knees , trying to keep myself from going to pieces . |
| 6 | I opened my window and put my head out into the wind and the rain . |
| 7 | When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth , I shouted so loudly that he dropped me . |
| 8 | And she put my head on my hands on the desk in front of me and believe me , I went to sleep , it was must have been very , very new , compared to being at home and perhaps being laid there . |
| 9 | I brought my face up and put my head back , baring my neck to the wind like a lover , to the rain like an offering . |
| 10 | All I will do is to come in after breakfast every day and put my bucket on the harness room boiler to cook up , and an hour later I will take it away . |
| 11 | You want me to disrupt my harvest and put my daughter in danger — and yet , according to Keith , the terrorists in your house were saying that their deadline was Friday . |
| 12 | Three things I 've always wanted to do : go to Machu Picchu , put my foot in Lake Titicaca and make it with an oriental chick . |
| 13 | I searched for something different to say and really put my foot in it : |
| 14 | I had to make haste now or I would be late , so I threw my kit in the back of the Porsche , threaded my way through the traffic on the Kingston By-pass and then put my foot down on the M3 , keeping a wary eye open for the police . |
| 15 | You let me just put my foot on that shore , you 'll never get me here again ! ’ |
| 16 | We were nearing the camp , so I aimed for the ruts in the track and put my foot down . |
| 17 | [ And on the next day ] Dr Hunter and Mr Cruikshanks came at 9 this morning and put my wife into the Box on and in 130 lb weight of Paris plaister at 18d a bag . |
| 18 | I put the folder down in my lap and put my forehead on the folder . |
| 19 | I usually put my ribber carriage against the garter bar as this helps to keep it in its slightly precarious position while I finish knitting the first side . |
| 20 | ‘ Now 's the time to nail my colours to the mast , throw away the scabbard , buckle to , go the whole hog , cross the Rubicon , grab the bull by the horns , put my shoulder to the wheel and leave a note out for the milkman . ’ |
| 21 | When I returned from Libya via Egypt , just after the Munich crisis I at once got in touch with Eliot , and put my proposal before him . |
| 22 | The KGB put my name forward . |
| 23 | I leaned forward , put my thumb under my lip and jerked it up to give him a close-up view of the long gash and the trailing blood-stained ends of the stitches . |
| 24 | I went upstairs and put my suitcase on the bed and took my things out of the drawers . |
| 25 | My father put my suitcase on the bed . |
| 26 | This put my back up . |
| 27 | I really put my back into it , you know ? |
| 28 | But about a month later I played in a trophy competition and played a disastrous round and put my handicap up to 16 which I 'm trying to get down by playing in two medal competitions in October . |
| 29 | At midnight , when , as the carol says , the animals were on their knees , I crept to the cot and put my pillowcase offering for the little fatherless one . |
| 30 | I wanted to cry there and then but I was in the ward surrounded by people who would want to dam up my tears , so I stood up , put my jacket on and walked out . |