Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] put [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 That will be the next stage we shall be working on over the next half-year or so , and what we do want to do is to seek the help of all the local authorities and teachers in this work , because one should perhaps put things into context , we 're a committee of twenty-two people , we have a staff , which when they 're all fully employed they 'll be about fifty , we have a budget of two million , but we have got to communicate with something like four hundred to five hundred thousand teachers , something like erm five thousand secondary schools and twenty-six thousand primary schools .
2 He should not put words in my mouth , however , or make false assumptions .
3 Doctors say the problems should n't put lives at risk … but the problem will get worse unless more resources are forthcoming .
4 I should n't put words in your mouth ,
5 no well you should n't put carrots in , you should put 'em in a separate pan
6 you sit here , you sit still for a minute and eat , eat your sandwich and I 'll just put Joseph in the car oh what
7 Okay , I 'll just put Bernard in a minute .
8 It 'll also put pressure on Sun to support mainstream technology like DCE and Motif .
9 His conclusion that there was no duress where the defendant could only put pressure on the plaintiff by the institution of proceedings , to which proceedings there would have been available the defence which ultimately prevailed , was , in my view , unimpeachable since there is ample authority for the view that a mere threat of action does not per se constitute duress .
10 Thus , for example , when meeting the TUC General Council in January 1942 he warned that he could not put money towards the elderly ‘ at the cost of the children ’ and that he had to give them ‘ fair treatment without ruining the country ’ .
11 She 'd always say she 'd just put coal in the fire .
12 Newspapers printed a photograph of a letter to a flood-control committee bearing Mr Li 's signature , so it was assumed that he could still put pen to paper .
13 She 's built like a rugby player , could probably put Ferg over her shoulder , but not this girl .
14 Er the water was coming in and you could n't put mats on the floor .
15 Could n't put mats on the floor .
16 ‘ I could never put Dad into a home . ’
17 I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing .
18 I cry to release huge waves of feelings which can build up , especially when I can not or dare not put feelings into words .
19 ‘ Political ’ pop need n't put text before textures , need n't deliver messages or manifestoes , or imagine that it can recreate ‘ community ’ , ‘ roots ’ or ‘ pride ’ ( as do senior ambassadors like Tracy Chapman , Elvis Costello and U2 ) .
20 S Yeah I wo I would basically put money on it being a problem with the the addressing .
21 He would just put headphones on and close his eyes .
22 But one well-placed Cabinet source did say privately that he would not put money on it ; there was no such thing as an easy answer to current problems ; and that ERM entry would be tantamount to jumping from ‘ the puddle and into the pond ’ .
23 Surely , ’ she added slyly , ‘ my good brother would not put obstacles between a queen and her throne or a mother and her son ? ’
24 In promoting our credit facilities we shall not put pressure on you to borrow money which you do not need or can not afford .
25 With this scenario for fusion research , the timescale would still put demonstration of the feasibility of fusion power some decades away , even assuming that the outcome of JET is satisfactory .
26 ‘ Rain is forecast and it would not take too much more to have the meeting cancelled , ’ said Plumpton clerk of the course Cliff Griggs yesterday , while overnight rain would also put Sedgefield in jeopardy .
27 Er er , I wish the man wo would n't put words into my
28 You ca n't put emotions in a bottle labelled ‘ Exhibit B ’ .
29 ‘ You ca n't put money on him , ’ confirms Tory agent Carl Gibson , but there 's a different explanation .
30 ‘ I do listen to contemporary music but it tends to be electronic stuff that I ca n't put names to .
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