Example sentences of "be put [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new chairman will be putting into action the firm 's $4m internal study of international strategy that was developed last year . |
| 2 | The committee gave permission for Arthur Withet , aged sixty-one , to be put to stone-breaking , and ordered iron bars to be placed across the windows in the senile ward . |
| 3 | Unlike other single women , Elaine can not stay out late at night : she has to be home in time to be put to bed by a nurse . |
| 4 | Max and I were delighted with the result , but when I got back to the hotel I was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed . |
| 5 | I collapse over my lamb chops and have to be put to bed . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I 'm not going to be put to bed by you — let's get that straight for a start ! ’ |
| 7 | Right you 'll be put to bed without any supper tonight . |
| 8 | ‘ There are certain eternal values which can not be put to referendum , ’ he announced . |
| 9 | It was led by Tonu Anton and intended to write a new constitution by Nov. 15 which would then be put to referendum . |
| 10 | If only the head and deputies , on the other hand , can be involved ( a limitation which is sometimes unavoidable unless lengthy and massive planning subgroups are to be put to work ) then they , as managers , must make sure that the decisions about sharing are understood within their schools . |
| 11 | All Spaniards , and all those who sheltered them , he declared , were to be put to death . |
| 12 | ‘ Ask yourselves , ’ he questioned the jury , ‘ is it possible that two exceptionally strong and stalwart officers could be put to death so easily by just one man and a mere youth , or would it have taken at least three if not four men to overcome them and cause such severe injuries ? , |
| 13 | Jesus has just stated that he had to go through great suffering ; to be rejected by the Jewish leaders ; and to be put to death and to rise again . |
| 14 | There is the further consideration that if after a Jury has deliberately decided that a person ought to be put to death , the Home Secretary should nevertheless find it his duty to recommend clemency , there would appear to be a conflict between the Crown and the Jury . |
| 15 | If they married outside their own caste , they could be put to death . |
| 16 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 17 | In 790 a Northumbrian nobleman , Eardwulf , was captured and brought to Ripon where orders were given by Aethelred for him to be put to death outside the gates of the monastery . |
| 18 | ‘ I think it 's lovely , ’ said Camille , wiping away a tear as she thought of the joyful , urgent creatures , little more than puppies , having to be put to death . |
| 19 | Even so , there is a note of baleful realism in his injunction that : none of our own sons should in any circumstances cause any [ of our grandsons ] accused before him to be put to death , or corporally mutilated or blinded or tonsured against his will , without lawful trial and inquiry . |
| 20 | Right , they 're accusing him to be claiming to be God and they actually say they actually say their decision is that he 's guilty and should be put to death , they 've condemned him to death . |
| 21 | It 's a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross , and it says there there were two others also who were criminals were being led away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to place called the skull , there they crucified him and the criminals , one on the right , and the other on the left . |
| 22 | But Mr Livingstone is unlikely to gain the nomination of 55 Labour MPs necessary before his name can be put to Labour 's electoral college , which will meet on July 18 to choose a new leader . |
| 23 | His father had been the son of a labourer who had earned 2d a day from ploughing , and such low-paid occasional work was typical of what was available for the children of farm labourers until , in such places as it was not in decline , they could be put to live-in farm or domestic service at around the age of fourteen . |
| 24 | It will be put to city councillors next week at the information and leisure committee meeting . |
| 25 | Although Futurism succumbed to the ravages of the First World War and its surviving adherents were later to be put to flight by Mussolini , many of its observations and its leading artists , such as Severini , Picabia , Boccioni and Balla continue to inspire the main stream of modern art . |
| 26 | I am sure that within the first month of the season , pens will be put to paper concerning the new law changes . |
| 27 | So many children can be put off mathematics at the primary level , and it 's important this does n't happen . |
| 28 | We will not easily be put off course but if we are we can use the kayak tilt or rudder to maintain the line without needing the paddle to steer . |
| 29 | ‘ If I arrested all of them who deserved to be put under arrest , then I 'd have no one left , ’ was the reply . |
| 30 | ‘ Any man with access to sensitive information , such as Major Maxim , should expect to be put under surveillance purely as a matter of routine . |