Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] put [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ in the felonious taking of money or goods of any value from the person of another , or in his presence , against his will , by violence or putting him in fear . |
| 2 | ‘ If they keep their bikes in garages , they should consider removing a wheel and putting it in the house . |
| 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 | Across the table , the younger of the two men from Six had already torn up his place card and put it in his pocket as a gesture of security . |
| 5 | Each book should have a card within it , and when you take the book you sign and date the card and put it in a box at the location of the books . |
| 6 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere saving of time in a library and taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or erm a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 7 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere erm saving of time in a librarian taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 8 | Margaret Bilney of Cam in Gloucestershire cut her finger one day in 1985 , so she took off her wedding ring and put it in her purse . |
| 9 | ‘ Next moment , he pulls out this hammer and puts it through the glass . ’ |
| 10 | She got the revolver off the back seat and put it into the glove compartment with the cartridges . |
| 11 | When we were going out of the theatre at the end of the pantomime I saw a little lad crawl under the seat and put it in his pocket . |
| 12 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 13 | Then , using a two pronged transfer tool , pick up just the end stitch and put it on the end needle ( 1 ) . |
| 14 | She had the most ghastly pallor , Sabine thought , racing to fetch her jacket from the car and put it under the older woman 's head as a pillow . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now the Wye 's the only major river in England where anyone can bring a boat and put it on the water without any form of licence . |
| 17 | And I took it out in the spring and put it in the garden and then it revived and came on nice . |
| 18 | A dozen years ago , half ICI 's sales were in the UK , tying the company 's fortunes to Britain 's anaemic manufacturing industry and putting it at a colossal disadvantage to rivals in more robust economies ; last year , the proportion was down to 21% , against 31% in the Americas , 25% in continental Europe , 17% in the Asia-Pacific region and 6% elsewhere . |
| 19 | Now , all he wanted was to get back to his typewriter and put them on paper before they faded . |
| 20 | and really always has been , erm , the idea of a centre is , is simply because you consider how much it costs to have a point wired when the house is , is built , er several people nowadays is ha well they buy an old house , they erm , say well we 'll take out the centre light and put us in some wall lights instead you see . |
| 21 | Mr Biggs , an angler for 20 years , said : ‘ Some anglers are a bit unscrupulous and are taking fish from one stretch and putting them in their own waters so they can make big catches . |
| 22 | When one takes monkeys evolved for tree-top living and puts them in gravel-floored cages on the ground where they are constantly exposed to faeces , when one mixes three species of macaque in one cage , as was done at the New England centre , the stress factors multiply . |
| 23 | the Egyptians moved the 48 m ship to a purpose-built museum alongside the King 's pyramid and put her on display last year . |
| 24 | Not until the two men were out of sight did the highwayman turn his horse and put it into a gallop along the track that passed near to the hollow where Seb and Melody were kneeling . |
| 25 | Emmie took the tray and put it on the floor . |
| 26 | To further pleas from Toby not to touch him I raced upstairs , grabbed a duvet and put it round him . |
| 27 | This afternoon that put them on environment minister Michael Howard 's hit list . |
| 28 | This is still not an easy subject-matter — when the Royal Academy put together its recent retrospective of ‘ German Art in the Twentieth-Century ’ it dealt with the Nazi years by ignoring them altogether — a decision that put it in line with the orthodox view of the work 's quality and conveniently avoided the embarrassing possibility that these works — kitsch , sunlit expressions of heroic physical vigour and serene landscape — might still prove more popular than German expressionism . |
| 29 | And throws it all in puts it all on the plate cold and puts it in the microwave . |
| 30 | Once upon a time ( I said , and he stared bitterly bitterly at the floor ) there was a very ugly monster who captured a princess and put her in a dungeon in his castle . |