Example sentences of "[noun prp] put [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , he does not do that , ’ said Sally-Anne cheerfully ; all her normal brio had returned , and she was not going to allow Dr Neil to put her down , and when he came back she gave him her most dazzling smile , and prepared to do battle with him , whenever battle was necessary . |
| 2 | ‘ Ask Grandson Richard to put me down , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Derby County needed a win against Crystal Palace to put them right up with those early leaders . |
| 4 | To Montano , Iago lies that Cassio is always drunk , and professes to ‘ fear the trust Othello puts him in ’ ( 121–31 ) . |
| 5 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 6 | To the right of our view , the lawn sloped up a gentle embankment to where the summerhouse stood , and it was there my father ’ s figure could by seen , pacing slowly with an air of preoccupation — indeed , as Miss Kenton puts it so well , ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 7 | In fact , I can describe his manner at that moment no better than the way Miss Kenton puts it in her letter ; it was indeed ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 8 | Their Bunny tails , as Norman Mailer put it , were ‘ puffs of chastity which bobbled as they walked . ’ |
| 9 | The transfers by Ward Marston sound very good , but any sonic limitations are in any event soon forgotten , so completely does Stokowski put you under the music 's spell . |
| 10 | Cor bloody happening , Neil put ours together mate |
| 11 | I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts . |
| 12 | I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and |
| 13 | Dr Rosalind Hursthouse puts it succinctly : ‘ Unmarried . |
| 14 | She is back to grande dame mode having proved herself , as John MacGrath put it , ‘ an actress who can do anything ’ . |
| 15 | MacArthur deemed it vital that ‘ if and when the Japanese are permitted an army that it not be run by the ‘ old crowd ’ and in the old way but that , as Colonel Babcock put it , be a ‘ democratic army ’ . |
| 16 | — holding this second baby Ellen puts me in mind more and more of Oreste and I grieve to have him . |
| 17 | A consequence of these processes , as Walker puts it , has been ‘ periodic expressions of alarm at the ‘ burden ’ of dependency' which old people create for the rest of us . |
| 18 | Richard was … quieter , ‘ less the buffoon ’ , as Oldfield put it . |
| 19 | Without adding much to the defensive capabilities of the palace , these outworks succeeded in masking the original work of Shah Jehan ‘ like a veil over a beautiful bride , ’ as Dr Jaffery put it . |
| 20 | ‘ The biggest executive operation , ’ as Mr Montagu puts it , is the benefits system , the largest single employer in the Civil Service ( 70,000 staff ) and distributor of the largest single chunk of public expenditure ( about £50bn ) . |
| 21 | Steven put me through to this Gwyllam |
| 22 | Brennan puts it clearly : |
| 23 | WOODY PUT ME THROUGH HELL |
| 24 | As Street on Torts puts it , the basis of this authority and the defence it affords to torts such as false imprisonment ‘ is the need to maintain order in the particular organisation responsible for the training of the child ’ ; parental wishes would merely be factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a punishment was reasonable . |
| 25 | Ranulf and the escort were told to wait outside but the lay brother was asked to come in for he could , as Corbett put it , ‘ talk in the common language ’ . |
| 26 | Ellen put them in pride of place above the fireplace in the front room downstairs . |
| 27 | As Firestone puts it : ‘ Freudianism subsumed the place of feminism as the lesser of two evils ’ . |
| 28 | Such solitariness was a condition and not a mood , however ; it lay beneath those moments of inexplicable high spirits when Eliot seemed , as Sherek put it , " as gay as a cricket " , just as it could be combined with apparent activity and " busyness " in the world . |
| 29 | As Barney Hoskyns put it in his Prince : Imp of the Perverse — ‘ he is where all the desires of pop meet and tangle — their camp cupidon , their locus of signification . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It was to have children that Allah put her on this earth . |