Example sentences of "put [pron] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We could build a stable , put them at the bottom of the garden and how expensive the
2 But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop .
3 Yeah , cos like if you 've got three Ss or something then you put one at the bottom of the pack and keep the card if you 've got an
4 Now what I 'd like you to do is to select two , I told you I 'd be serious in the last part , the whole is here , is select the two pads you like best , please , and put one at the front of the binder and one at the back .
5 I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and
6 In fact put it at the back somewhere I think pong .
7 So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden .
8 But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without .
9 Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack
10 And you can mass type , erm mass headlines , and we do negative type leading and all the rest , but you have to add up that extra descender space and put it at the bottom of the headline .
11 Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen .
12 Connon picked up the plastic bag , opened it , put it at the edge of the table and swept the items into it with one efficient movement of his hand .
13 During the autumn and winter of that dramatic year they put themselves at the forefront of agitation for more effective air raid precautions , and used their influence in the war factories to defend workers ’ living standards while criticizing the inefficiency of management .
14 Do a little homework before you put yourself at the mercy of a mortgage lender .
15 If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side .
16 They 're chewing up the lawn but Carl there 's nowhere else to put them at the moment .
17 No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors .
18 The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement .
19 Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that .
20 Remember to put something at the bottom of the downpipe if it discharges over an open gully in order to catch whatever is blocking it , or else you might block the gully or the drains further along .
21 every time you get a question right you pick a card , but if you have more than , once you 've got more than nine cards you 've got to put one at the bottom of the pack again
22 It 's when you get to ten you 've got ta stop , you 've got to put one at the bottom
23 You 've won , but if you ca n't you 've got to put one at the bottom
24 Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries .
25 He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government .
26 Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there .
27 ‘ Then tomorrow , you can take it down to the oven and tell them to put it at the bottom , so it -cooks really slowly , to keep it moist . ’
28 I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment .
29 You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’
30 And Taylor said : ‘ At last , our young players now have the facilities to put us at the top of the world game . ’
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