Example sentences of "[conj] put i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've worked at a number of occupations that put me into positions of possible danger . |
| 2 | It needs to be done now and it 's going to cost us more if we leave it till later , on that point I ca n't agree with your budget , so , I 'm afraid , it 's roads that put me against it . |
| 3 | My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed . |
| 4 | Eventually my father took me to my room , undressed me and put me to bed . |
| 5 | The guards and police took me completely outside the town and put me into some weird hotel that looked like a Holiday Inn , but it was in the middle of the woods . |
| 6 | I was bleeding from a laceration on my scalp and was so drunk that I had no recollection of what had happened ; a Sergeant quizzed me closely and seeing that I was incapable of speech , took me downstairs and put me into an ambulance . |
| 7 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 8 | Arguing from vastly different viewpoints , compromise proved impossible , until Toohoolhoolzote mumbled : ‘ What person pretends to divide the land and put me on it ? ’ |
| 9 | This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age . |
| 10 | I could not keep food or fluids down and when the symptoms did not go after a couple of days they took me to the hospital and put me on a drip . ’ |
| 11 | Arrest me and put me on a diet fast ! |
| 12 | My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train . |
| 13 | If you 've any sense you 'll give me a ride to Shipton and put me on a train , then go back to your farm and forget all about me . ’ |
| 14 | It spat a worrisome mixture of steam and flame out periodically and covered the bottom of the pans with black ooze , a treacly goo that got itself on to my pile jacket and put me in good humour for an hour or so . |
| 15 | While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate . |
| 16 | They gave me a feeling of my own finiteness , and put me in the mood for my evening Bible reading . |
| 17 | But they always gave me the choice first and put me in a dilemma , though I did n't know the meaning of the word then . |
| 18 | Barlow confessed : ‘ Mo called for the ball and put me in two minds . |
| 19 | His mother smiled and put me in his hand . |
| 20 | So they took me into care and put me in an assessment centre in Sydenham Hill for six months . |
| 21 | They took me to Lochleven Castle , and put me in a room like a prison . |
| 22 | A tall and smartly dressed Englishwoman took my hand and put me in a chauffeur-driven car and , suddenly , after three months of confinement behind barbed-wire fences , we were driving away , through the barrier and down the lanes thick and bright with the leaves and flowers of spring . |
| 23 | Now I need you to back up my story and put me in the clear . |
| 24 | I once worked in the shopfloor in a factory , putting cream on to cream cakes , when I finished college , and they took me out and put me in the lab even though I did n't have any science degree , and I was in the labs for three months . |
| 25 | Are you gon na come and put me to bed or are n't you ? |
| 26 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 27 | Tremayne was held in genuine respect and I saw more sympathy than smirks : yet he in many respects was the stoker of the ill-feeling between his warring jockeys , and putting me among them was n't a recipe for a cease-fire . |
| 28 | ‘ No , dear — it 's kind of you , but when you get to my age you like to sit quietly and think about the past — and I watch my telly and listen to carols on my old wireless and then the Home Help comes and puts me to bed . |
| 29 | S'pose they take me down an' put me in a line-up . |