Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] put [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There did n't seem anything else to do except take them inside and put them in water .
2 I was bleeding from a laceration on my scalp and was so drunk that I had no recollection of what had happened ; a Sergeant quizzed me closely and seeing that I was incapable of speech , took me downstairs and put me into an ambulance .
3 When at last we got home , I would gently carry them indoors and put them into their beds , still asleep .
4 She scraped them carefully and put them in a steel pan , covering them with the bottled still water in which they would be boiled , thereby retaining the vitamin C which would otherwise have been poured down the sink .
5 Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven
6 Gently , he carried him outside and put him in the basket .
7 The episode with the child is a reworking of Svidrigailov 's nightmare immediately before his suicide , in which he finds an abandoned little girl and carries her upstairs and puts her in his bed , and goes back later to see how she is .
8 I accepted the daisy she gave me graciously and put it in the buttonhole of my jacket 's left breast pocket .
9 " You had better tell the men to bring it downstairs and put it in the drawing-room , " she said .
10 She lifted it away and put it on Lowell 's knee .
11 So when you have caught one spider , bring it home and put it in the cage .
12 With a feeling of triumph she placed both threads inside a paper tissue , folded it carefully and put it in her pocket .
13 He took the sandwich wrapping off the tea-chest and shook out the crumbs before folding it neatly and putting it into his pocket .
14 When he had gone out , she gathered up their scattered clothes then folded them tidily and put them on a chair .
15 The doctor , however , acted in ways he found wholly admirable , and he thought that when he did get out he would apply his methods of handling patients — getting hold of them firmly and putting them into the right positions — to the positioning of his models .
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