Example sentences of "[pron] put [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 2 | Saturday night I put them to bed erm they went to bed at half seven Saturday night . |
| 3 | I sent Adam for Dr Spilsby straight , while the maids and I put you to bed in here . |
| 4 | When I put you to bed you were high as a kite . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I put it to you , ’ some old goat would bleat from under his wig , ‘ that these scheming , unprincipled charlatans , stopping at nothing to come by their ill-gotten gains , forged the very hand of a peer of the realm in a dastardly conspiracy to frustrate the worthy efforts of their local benefactor . ’ |
| 6 | Mrs Webster was very understanding about my wanting to team up with Wendy , which was how I put it to her ; and when I left she gave me a Victorian glass inkwell and a brown ironstone plate , because I ‘ liked old things ’ . |
| 7 | I put it to Assemblyman Keene that this weakened the bill , and restricted the freedom of action of patients and doctors . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I — ’ ‘ I put it to you that you had always loved Elinor Farr . |
| 9 | She was dressed differently but it was the same face , the same hair , the same pleasant manner , and I said to her , well I put it to her , was she a twin ? |
| 10 | I suppose I put it to him hoping for some response . |
| 11 | So I put it to him , ‘ Being famous does n't necessarily endow a guitarist with insight into the design and workings of the guitar , so why are artists so often asked for their input and reviewers almost never , when our job is to understand , examine and pass judgement on guitars on a daily basis ? ’ |
| 12 | I put it to Paul and he decided he was prepared to give it a go . ’ |
| 13 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 14 | Well , I put it to yer , Joe , a quid for just 'aving a look around , you ca n't 'old that against a mate like me . |
| 15 | Bernie was responsible for read-out and interpretation of FDRs in Canada and I put it to him that what we really needed was the ability to watch the accident taking place in real time , preferably by means of a DFDR providing the inputs to a flight simulator instead of the usual pilot inputs . |
| 16 | At that time he was head of the College of Aeronautics , and I put it to him that there could be advantages both for Cranfield and for AIB if there were a two-month residential course for potential aircraft accident investigators . |
| 17 | In Britain , comments like those of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford were typical : ‘ I put it to the men who play cricket and football that we must now all be prepared to stand by our country and to suffer for our country . ’ |
| 18 | I put it to this hundred , would you spend two thousand pounds on having a tummy tuck if your tummy needing tucking ? , |
| 19 | I put it to you that any alteration of Church Lane at any point between the A Nineteen and the centre of the village would be seriously detrimental to the existing character of that area . |
| 20 | The way I put it to myself is that Sylvie made a choice . |
| 21 | " Now I put it to you , to your sense of fair play : would you have handled these Reds very gently ? |
| 22 | I put it to you that it is unlikely that such widespread invasive tumour arose from one small marker lesion and the surgeon concerned that this was a staging error initially . |
| 23 | Rather dubiously I put it to the Chairman and I was relieved to find that he was quite enthusiastic about the idea . |
| 24 | I put it to the committee . ’ |
| 25 | Leaving aside cheap party political propaganda , I put it to you , in all seriousness , that literally millions of people in this country will rely when they retire on occupational pensions . |
| 26 | ‘ I put it to you … |
| 27 | to sniff out corruption : ‘ I put it to you |
| 28 | Colleagues , motion one seven five is being accepted , I put it to the vote , all those in favour ? |
| 29 | Now you would court martial them well I put it to the S I B |
| 30 | I put it to you that this proposal has to be considered , any new settlement proposal has to be considered within the light of a post two thousand and six strategy , in that light this new settlement proposal will not , at around fourteen hundred , satisfy the situation . |