Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [modal v] put " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The lads just told me I should put more water in my whisky , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Against : almost nothing I can put my finger on , except that it 's a darned expensive guitar and I expected it to justify its price by being inspiring — which , for all of us who tried it , it somehow failed to be . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , physically there 's nothing I can put my finger on . |
| 4 | And I I er put , I I I 'll put this , put this one in . |
| 5 | I paid , I paid er well I 'm not off , but I I 'll put something towards it . |
| 6 | I I 'll put them in fridge . |
| 7 | Now Professor Lock referred to allocations and I think that 's probably and the front of his mind er having regard to his own comments , but I I would put it more widely as just erm exceptions which could be either individual allocations or indeed erm policies of of a local plan . |
| 8 | Oh one of the hens got erm landed on the top of the black net cos I I 'd put some corn and stuff in you see and she landed on it and she got her feet stuck through netting so she was flapping and the net was just going up and down ! |
| 9 | Instead of carding someone he 'll put his arm round her and say Do n't ! |
| 10 | I should like to make two points , the first of which I shall put into italics , since this seems to be your favourite mode of utterance . |
| 11 | Every lunch time , I would trot off with my large plastic box , and return an hour later with a container of milk which I would put in the office fridge . |
| 12 | The first attitude involves a conscious repression of her own identity on Mira 's part , whereas the second attitude , though supposedly more contentious , often leads Willy forcibly to repress her ‘ disagreeable ’ qualities : ‘ All my objections , which I 'll put as genuine unacceptabilities of my cassandring person , which no man 'll take , will be swept under his magic carpet with the ho-ho joke if no man will and I will , what am I ? ’ ( 136 ) . |
| 13 | Mistakes were made which I must put right . |
| 14 | Another piece of equipment I use is my boots , my shoes , my trousers , my clever truncheon pocket , it 's a long thin pocket which I can put the truncheon in and it hides away . |
| 15 | Why should I , or anyone , be expected to perform tasks which mean nothing to me , and into which I can put nothing of myself ? |
| 16 | Keeping him in quarantine is much wiser than producing a situation in which you might put Iran back in control of the Gulf , after eight years in which the whole of the outside world , including the Soviet Union and the US , built up this great military monster in Iraq , in order to prevent Iran from running the Gulf . |
| 17 | There are certain expenses that you can offset against tax , which you should put down on your tax form . |
| 18 | And it makes you more money — which you can put away toward the day when you wo n't be in such demand ! ’ |
| 19 | I have n't got to smoke pot , but I do and I think that 's more security than anything , knowing that you 've got a bit of pot which you can put down and you can say : ‘ Oh , I do n't want none of that today , I 'm not in the mood for it . ’ |
| 20 | All of these comments and caveats will have set you pondering on the myriad uses to which you can put the data base , the diary , the notepad and the calculator . |
| 21 | The best which you can put it is that all the whole of the area of search is an area of of moderate quality which is appreciated by the people who live within it . |
| 22 | So you 'd be on you 'd have twenty one grand which you could put away . |
| 23 | The swiftness with which she 'd put the same question surprised him . |
| 24 | She hung on to the towelling and the scissors , and then looked around the dismal room to find a clean surface on which she could put them . |
| 25 | Hang on lets get , in terms of Stella , has an awful lot of relatively small trivial changes which she will put through and none of us are going to disagree with . |
| 26 | So the , the two suggestions which we 'll put forward then is , is naming one of capital projects in , in this financial year , of the centenary , and possibly looking at er erm joining into a service or establishing a service with the Minster , and I 'll , I 'll look into that with the Provost as well , and the Association . |
| 27 | Yes , I can en envisage that somewhere , perhaps a visitor 's a first step towards clarifying what may be a runner would be taken by Sarah at the moment , but er , which we would put an investigator straight from future , for example . |
| 28 | We have a vast network of brains and resources which we should put together . |
| 29 | Clearly linked to language and concepts which we can put into words , attitudes are usually held collectively . |
| 30 | If we want to tell somebody a fact about the world — let's say that John ate fish and chips — we have a number of ways in which we can put this into a sentence . |