Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] put [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been put to bed early , exhausted after a visit from Konstantin and his girlfriend . |
| 2 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 4 | Nationalisation was not new to France — the railways had been put into State ownership in 1937 — but support for economic planning had grown during the war as a way towards national renewal , greater investment and improved working conditions , and also as a way to punish businessmen who had collaborated with the Nazis . |
| 5 | The record industry is a notoriously chauvinistic business , but almost from the outset women had been put into positions of power and seniority at Virgin . |
| 6 | Although no details of its terms were made available , officials declared that it would form the basis for future formal bilateral links , which had been put into question after the collapse of the 1982 Confederation of Senegambia in September 1989 [ see pp. 37062 ; 37801 ] . |
| 7 | Whitlock had driven to the airport a couple of hours before the delegation was due to arrive to ensure that all the security measures had been put into operation . |
| 8 | She had her own flat , at Coleherne Court off the Old Brompton Road — bought with money that had been put into trust until her eighteenth birthday — which she shared with girlfriends . |
| 9 | There was evidence that Barlow Clowes investors ' money had been put into shares in James Ferguson , run by Mr Clowes ' ally Guy von Cramer . |
| 10 | This idea had been put into practice in 312/311 BC by Seleucus I , the Hellenistic ruler of Babylonia . |
| 11 | Once the top section had been put into place and its edge tucked in as close to the body as possible , the lip of the base tray was eased towards the sides of the upper half and the joint soldered . |
| 12 | Lenin 's ‘ new model of socialism ’ , they argued , had been put into effect during the 1920s , but then replaced by a Stalinist system which had ‘ created an alienation of the individual from ownership , from power and from the results of his work ’ . |
| 13 | This did not in practice apply to landless labourers or peasants with very little land , a large and growing element in the rural population ; but if it had been put into effect it would none the less have been the most sweeping social legislation seen anywhere in old regime Europe . |
| 14 | The all-party talks on Oct. 12 proved inconclusive , and on Oct. 29 the SLFP withdrew its support for such talks , claiming that it had lost confidence in the government 's will to solve the country 's problems and that none of the opposition proposals had been put into effect . |
| 15 | Once the original cease-fire had been put into effect in 1988 , both parties found themselves with immense tasks of reconstruction to contend with and little , apart from their battered oil-export systems , with which to finance them . |
| 16 | She said her own worries had been put into perspective by a visit shortly before his death of Lord Cheshire . |
| 17 | At the very least , the employee may need to show that the customer began to make an active search for an alternative supplier when be became aware that the patented article had to undergo important technical refinements after it had been put into use . |
| 18 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |
| 19 | He was acquitted on all counts after the court heard the boy in question , by then a young man , had been put under pressure to testify by the FBI and the district attorney . |
| 20 | Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could ‘ name names ’ and that elected members had told him that they had been put under pressure when short-leeting jobs . |
| 21 | Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could name names and that elected members had told him they had been put under pressure when short-leeting jobs . |
| 22 | Mussolini 's visit passed off without incident , mainly because many people suspected of anti-Fascist sentiments had been put under arrest and because there were large numbers of security men mingling with the crowds . |
| 23 | After the object ( a toy car ) had been put at B , the boxes were locked ; with the result that most of the infants went straight to B , could not get in , and returned to A and tried to gain entry to a box which they could see ( whatever ‘ see ’ means here exactly ) was empty . |
| 24 | The officers said innocent men 's lives had been put at risk and their families had been forced to move house because identities had been disclosed . |
| 25 | people 's lives had been put at risk ; |
| 26 | Refurbishment costs for Holly House in Camden , which houses ten young adults with mental health problems , had been put at £450,000 , said Richmond Fellowship chief executive Owen Ingram . |
| 27 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |
| 28 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 29 | The tiles would be located after dinner when Thomas , who was heavy-lidded and more than a little cranky , had been put to bed . |
| 30 | Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly . |