Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [been] put [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 2 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |
| 3 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 4 | Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could ‘ name names ’ and that elected members had told him that they had been put under pressure when short-leeting jobs . |
| 5 | Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could name names and that elected members had told him they had been put under pressure when short-leeting jobs . |
| 6 | He 'd been put to bed early , exhausted after a visit from Konstantin and his girlfriend . |
| 7 | In her words ‘ I find myself blaming this for my self-hate , my lack of confidence , my feeling of , ‘ how can anyone love me ’ ’ She had kept this a secret and this was the first time it had been put on paper . |
| 8 | This did not in practice apply to landless labourers or peasants with very little land , a large and growing element in the rural population ; but if it had been put into effect it would none the less have been the most sweeping social legislation seen anywhere in old regime Europe . |
| 9 | At the very least , the employee may need to show that the customer began to make an active search for an alternative supplier when be became aware that the patented article had to undergo important technical refinements after it had been put into use . |
| 10 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 11 | He had been put on trial in May 1991 , in what was seen as an attempt to weaken the nationalist opposition . |
| 12 | As soon as the visits to the mental hospital had ended , he had been put on streptomycin and PAS , like several of the younger patients . |
| 13 | But at that and the second Westminster election , he had been put in office by the DUP . |
| 14 | There can be little doubt that Picasso was excited by the work that Braque brought back to Paris from l'Estaque in which he was drawing such original answers from the questions he had been putting to Cézanne 's art . |
| 15 | The prior of the Austin canons of Launde , in Leicestershire , followed these into captivity , and shortly all of them had been put to death for treason . |