Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] put i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I need you to back up my story and put me in the clear . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Barlow confessed : ‘ Mo called for the ball and put me in two minds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | So they took me into care and put me in an assessment centre in Sydenham Hill for six months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Arguing from vastly different viewpoints , compromise proved impossible , until Toohoolhoolzote mumbled : ‘ What person pretends to divide the land and put me on it ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |