Example sentences of "put [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the English soldiery hunted down every Irishman suspected of helping the French and put them to death in a variety of ingenious fashions . |
| 2 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 3 | They are responsible for every aspect of the children 's care , i.e. they wake them up in the morning , take lying , sitting , standing , and walking groups , teach the National Curriculum lessons , toilet and bath the children and put them to bed . |
| 4 | There is no doubt at all that heads have the power , in managerial terms , to make such decisions ; but it would be a foolish head who put them to the governors without first winning staff support . |
| 5 | Check what the resident would like to wear and that clothes are clean , and put them to hand if the person can not move easily . |
| 6 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 7 | We put them to the test with the help of : Gloria Hunniford , television cook Glynn Christian , cake expert Mary Berry , Emma Forbes of BBC1 's Going Live ! , children 's presenter Andi Peters , Food & Drink producer Alison Field and Willie Elsner , chef of London 's Dorchester Hotel . |
| 8 | One , near Cork , allowed us to feed the kids in the backpacker 's kitchen , put them to bed in our basic but spotless large room ( £20 for all of us ) , then settle down to a sumptuous gourmet meal in their separate restaurant . |
| 9 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 10 | We put them to bed , we wake them up , we laugh and we cry with them ’ ( Berridge , 1985 , p. 54 ) . |
| 11 | Let me , let's , let's , let's try a couple of those thoughts , put them to the vote . |
| 12 | ‘ But the men were many and clever and shot at the eagles with arrows , and trapped them in nets and put them to death , one after another . |
| 13 | ‘ We thought , ’ put in Bith , who was feeling a bit bolder now that Goibniu had approved their ideas , ‘ we thought that the lady — that is Reflection 's daughter — might like to see the designs before we put them to the forge , your honour . ’ |
| 14 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 15 | As the general secretary indicated , colleagues , all the motions are being accepted , so I now put them to the vote . |
| 16 | London local authorities had delayed hearing petitioners ' cases and put them to considerable inconvenience . |
| 17 | In the evenings his mother was out , and Dad would read them stories and put them to bed . |
| 18 | When Charles got wind of a threatened attack on her by Pippin and his men , he returned southwards with unexpected speed , fell on Pippin 's force and put them to flight . |
| 19 | The Khmers Rouges ran Kampuchea for three years until 1978 , when the invading Vietnamese put them to flight . |
| 20 | ‘ Should you have any further questions , I suggest you put them to Commissioner Zen himself . ’ |
| 21 | A chance for you to air your views and put them to a Government spokesperson . |
| 22 | You could think of course do have children , dad , can I , can I , can I , bed you go , just to shut them up so if you have two small children there , the chances are you will lose the woman put them to bed or . |
| 23 | You can question other people , other people might have that knowledge and you can question and clarify and form in your mind the ideas that you need and maybe put them to the group as a group . |
| 24 | So something just peculiar at that very time put them to the . |
| 25 | He has n't got to bath the kids and put them to bed . |
| 26 | Saturday night I put them to bed erm they went to bed at half seven Saturday night . |
| 27 | He 's only recently started to take notice of Hannah like take her swimming and that on and since he found out that she 's got a heart murmur and that 's what it 's like , cos he for tea on the way back , and then he bathed the children and put them to bed , and last night no , what he put them all in the bath again , put that down again |
| 28 | If you put them to shallow they come up |
| 29 | She always put me to bed … and read me a story . ’ |
| 30 | So they put me to millinery . |