Example sentences of "[noun sg] and put [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | she finished her own tea and put down the cup . |
| 2 | The Carpets may have tumbled from grace with those anxious to keep pace with fashion , fallen victim to a mid-career plunge into the realms of prog rock and put out the odd dodgy single , but they 're currently looking like people whose revived self-belief is entirely justified . |
| 3 | She found a stained beer-mat and put down the mug , which bore the legend , ‘ When God made man , she was only joking ’ in spiky black letters . |
| 4 | She walked to the desk and put down the vase and by the time she had done this Gabriel was gone . |
| 5 | She shut the lid of the chest and put back the pot , shoe and mirror , stopping for a moment to gaze at her reflection . |
| 6 | The association of ideas made fondness for Gentle sound like another disease , but he did n't comment on it , merely made arrangements to pick up Klein the following evening and put down the phone , plunged into a deeper trough than ever . |
| 7 | He discovered burning matches close to his barn and put out the fire . |
| 8 | Suddenly he dashed over to the door and put out the light . |
| 9 | I took it out of the bed and stared at it , then I put it on the table beside my bed and put out the lights . |
| 10 | Somehow I managed to cover her with my coat and put out the flames with my hands . |
| 11 | Melissa murmured some banal phrases of encouragement and put down the telephone with a feeling of desolation . |
| 12 | ‘ Stop reading and put out the light . |
| 13 | The officers took the tot off to the station , gave her breakfast and put out the radio appeal . |
| 14 | As Thurlow sums him up , ‘ in everyday life he was a small insignificant man in an ordinary suit … but take off the uniform of the city solicitor and put on the running singlet and the track shoes and the transformation was amazing ’ . |
| 15 | The opening music was greeted by a torrential shower of rain that drummed with deafening force on the stage and put out the fires of Hell . |
| 16 | The area had effectively been abandoned by the authorities , a fact which became clear during the riot itself , when police waited five hours to enter the estate and put down the disturbances . |