Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] put [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'd like everyone to get into the habit of rinsing their own coffee cup after use and putting it away in the top cupboard . ’
2 The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product .
3 By introducing him to Pan Am 's lawyers before bowing out again , Miller had broken Coleman 's alarming sense of isolation and put him in touch with at least a measure of the support he needed , support that the DIA itself was unable to give .
4 He then went to the cool cabinet at the rear of the shop , took out a can of lager and put it in his pocket .
5 She ladled the flat and listless thing on to a piece of toast and put it before her guest .
6 Speechless with weary anger , she cut herself two crooked slices of bread and put them under the grill .
7 I spread a little of the peculiar fat on a piece of bread and put it into my mouth .
8 Well I , I might just block it off get another piece of wood and put it in there and just nail that fucking lot up and block off completely , otherwise Nick 's , if Nicholas is playing in the garden he 'll be out of there like a shot , so you 're gon na get one post there , say one in the middle and one at the end .
9 No , it 's got to be right , right , er big and I 'm going to stuff it with a plank of wood and put I 've got about two bushes and what the problem is , is you 've got get
10 I 'm gon na lift a few mint roots Stefan and er plant them in a box of compost and put them in the warm greenhouse so they give me nice sprigs of fresh mint in a few months ' time .
11 I gathered together the various sawn-up and wrenched-apart pieces of putter and put them in a drawer .
12 Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them
13 Fair play Ipswich , you showed that the Shittes can be stopped — pity about you lack of firepower though to put them away altogether .
14 And just filled a net basket of eggs and put it down in the in the water and the water flowed through it kind of .
15 It says it is impossible to new the ma , renew them again to repentance , since they again crucify to themselves the son of God and to put him to open shame .
16 She explained how they used to steal food , and how hard it was when she came to the Hogans , her first job , to realise she did n't have to take any stray biscuit or a fistful of sugar and put it into her apron .
17 There were mangoes on the table and flat bread and a dish of scrambled eggs , so I took a spoonful of egg and put it slowly down on the terrace , as I thought any human being would do .
18 Write your favourite joke or riddle on to a small piece of paper and put it inside your cracker .
19 And put it on a piece of paper and put it on the notice board so that if anybody rings up you can say well this is what it is .
20 Donna rubbed her eyes and got to her feet , picking up the piece of paper and putting it in her handbag .
21 When it was time for them to go , she rolled up the carpet full of soil and put it in her bedroom .
22 One of his most senior colleagues , Mr Michael Heseltine , the Environment Secretary , indicated that , if the Tories were the biggest party in a hung Parliament , Mr Major would draw up a programme of legislation and put it to the vote in Parliament rather than seeking any formal deal with the Liberal Democrats or Ulster Unionists .
23 And God tells him , he says , you make a serpent of brass and put it on a pole in the middle of the camp so that everybody can see it they look to that serpent of brass , they will be healed .
24 We do n't , we turned the valve off , we take a bunch of newspapers and put it on top of the bricks , then we light the newspaper , then we go back and turn the valve on and let this hundred octane mixture of oil drip on the bricks and it would burn .
25 I 've worked at a number of occupations that put me into positions of possible danger .
26 Andrew picked up the old leather helmet on the chest of drawers and put it on .
27 She picked a mixed posy of flowers and put them in the small basket she was carrying , and then wandered down through the orchard .
28 From one of the voluminous pockets he produced a bottle of Scotch and put it down on the table .
29 ‘ And when I was up in the tree , ’ she added , gazing up at him , ‘ I saw a thief climb into the Botanical Gardens and dig up a lot of bulbs and put them in a big case and go off with them ! ’
30 Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time .
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