Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] put [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 2 | Or , as Bernard Mandeville put it , in his usual ambivalent , ironic manner : " it is manifest , that in a Free Nation , where Slaves are not allowed of , the surest wealth consists in a multitude of laborious poor … " |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 6 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 7 | But Kevin Wilson scored a fine individual goal and Andy Williams put it beyond doubt . |
| 8 | In a bizarre pre-election address , the Texas tycoon put it all in perspective , declaring : ’ We 're all crazies , but there are millions of crazy people in this country ! ’ |
| 9 | As David Tomlinson put it , ‘ We want to be charismatics not charismaniacs . ’ |
| 10 | January 25th , 1978 : Richard Gordon put us all off travelling abroad when he outlined some common holiday hazards and where to find them … |
| 11 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |
| 12 | And here 's an interesting thing I learned from the Independent on Sunday last weekend : as its correspondent David Lister put it , ‘ An international competition to find the best of the worst new verse has been wound up because poets on both sides of the Atlantic can no longer distinguish between ‘ good bad ’ poetry and ‘ bad good ’ poetry . ’ |
| 13 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 14 | Thus , as Richard Lewontin put it , ‘ it is then unnecessary to give a specifically adaptive reason for the extremely large antlers of deer ’ ( Box 1 ) . |
| 15 | Women were , as Eleanor Rathbone put it ‘ … an inarticulate race . |
| 16 | It offered , as Pat Thane put it , ‘ a pension for the very old , the very poor and the very respectable ’ with a qualifying age of 70 , a sliding scale income limit of £21 to £31 10s. per annum , and clauses purporting to exclude recipients of poor relief , those convicted of various offences , and aliens . |
| 17 | They went down at Colchester , an own goal from David Titterton put them behind after 7 minutes . |
| 18 | Collegians seemed to be heading for a shock win which would have ruined Western 's chances of a possible date with Lisnagarvey in tomorrow 's final when winger David Hutchison put them in front with a superb solo effort in the 20th minute . |
| 19 | As the Reverend David Davies put it in 1795 , " depriving the peasantry of all landed property has beggared multitudes " . |
| 20 | They never looked back after Neil Hodgson put them in the lead after 24 minutes , Joe Peel adding tow more before half time . |
| 21 | said Miss Polly put her straight to bed |
| 22 | he said Miss Polly put her straight to bed , he knocked on the door with a rat a tat tat you do it like that |
| 23 | I wan na do all of them on me own so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick , said Miss Polly put her straight to bed he wrote on a paper for a pill , pill , pill |
| 24 | As Marcus Binney and David Pearce put it : ‘ since its establishment in 1947 British Rail has acquired for itself an all too deserved reputation as the biggest corporate vandal and iconoclast Britain has seen since the Tudor dissolution of the monasteries ’ . |
| 25 | Scott Hastings put it slightly more graphically . |
| 26 | Of course , these trips are not compulsory , but as one Eton parent put it : ‘ Few parents would want to deny their child the opportunity to play for the school under these circumstances . ’ |
| 27 | The fate awaiting someone pitched from his horse in such a place might be blood-poisoning , ‘ being dreadfully venom 'd by rolling in slake ’ , as William Hall put it in his nineteenth-century fen doggerel . |
| 28 | And they looked on course when goals from Ryan Giggs and Ian Rush put them in front after the RCS had taken a 16th minute lead through Pavel Kuka . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ I played another eight games at full back until I was dropped , then Ray Hankin put me back in at centre half when he took over . ’ |