Example sentences of "put [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airlines , facing their fourth successive year in the red , are urging the EC to drop plans to lower maximum noise levels and nitrogen oxide emissions , arguing that they could increase operating costs , reduce the resale value of operators ' fleets and put them at a competitive disadvantage to international rivals . |
| 2 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 3 | We could build a stable , put them at the bottom of the garden and how expensive the |
| 4 | My best friends , Ada , Nora and Nives , all had bicycles , which put me at a serious disadvantage . |
| 5 | The Peacock Committee was convinced that it was no longer possible to recommend ‘ no change ’ to either the licence fee system or the funding structure of broadcasting as a whole ; the differences between the two sources of revenue would create recurring crises for the BBC and put it at a competitive disadvantage compared to the ITV structure . |
| 6 | Another accident we had with an a wardrobe two of my lads had which was a funny one in retrospect but I some when you carry a wardrobe , funnily enough , the easiest way often if you 've got a tight corner , you know as you go round a corner in a staircase you 'll come from a landing and often turn right or turn left to go down , if you put it at an angle like that then you wo n't get it round the corner without catching the bannister . |
| 7 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
| 8 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
| 9 | Connon picked up the plastic bag , opened it , put it at the edge of the table and swept the items into it with one efficient movement of his hand . |
| 10 | Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen . |
| 11 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
| 12 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 13 | In fact put it at the back somewhere I think pong . |
| 14 | Erm , well I put it at the . |
| 15 | And you can mass type , erm mass headlines , and we do negative type leading and all the rest , but you have to add up that extra descender space and put it at the bottom of the headline . |
| 16 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
| 17 | They 're chewing up the lawn but Carl there 's nowhere else to put them at the moment . |
| 18 | Yes it 's been understood that it was a routing thing to put them at the right side of Southwell to drive through the middle of it . |
| 19 | Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that . |
| 20 | Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries . |
| 21 | He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government . |
| 22 | Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there . |
| 23 | I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment . |
| 24 | ‘ Then tomorrow , you can take it down to the oven and tell them to put it at the bottom , so it -cooks really slowly , to keep it moist . ’ |
| 25 | And Taylor said : ‘ At last , our young players now have the facilities to put us at the top of the world game . ’ |
| 26 | The farm owners were n't working class , so the ways this put them at a disadvantage is irrelevant . |
| 27 | The market had expected Thames , Severn Trent and North West to be listed , putting them at an immediate investment advantage to the rest of the sector . |
| 28 | Now she has refined those skills with the help of judo and is putting them at the service of her country . |
| 29 | More than that , the caring crème de la crème were also confronted by the result of what had put them at the forefront of that generation in the first place : they were very good at what they did ( teaching , lecturing , theorizing , media of all kinds , creativity of all stripes ) , and they were becoming , perish the thought , Successful . |
| 30 | To pick and choose which plants they were going to eat would put them at a disadvantage since they would waste so much time looking for food , rather than eating it . |