Example sentences of "put [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Gossip put nothing of himself to the test but his patience .
2 Nigel Lawson then proposed we should either scrap SERPS and put nothing in its place or leave the whole issue until the next Parliament .
3 So , for example , it would be better to stick your head out of the window and take in six large gulps of air instead of smoking a cigarette than to cut out smoking and put nothing in its place .
4 ‘ Oh , I love , I love , ’ she told me over and over , ‘ I put nothing in my letters to you .
5 she just been over some house in Trafford Road and er , I think she left some , some by there by what she said or to who , who it were , but it must of been them who put them onto us , because she come in
6 They put them on their arms , but Julian noticed his were of different lengths , one covering his hand , the other leaving his hand extended beyond the edge .
7 then they put them on their stomach
8 If you put them on their sides they 're too .
9 All the child 's socks were dirty so she had turned a pair inside out and put them on her .
10 Cis was coming out of the Co-op one day ( hoping that Rich had not , yet again , taken some cigarettes and put them on her account ) , when she met a bristle-moustached Meredith Jones who demanded , ‘ How can you let him do it ? ’
11 She drew back her hands from the table and put them on her lap .
12 A burglar who took his socks off and put them on his hands to avoid leaving fingerprints was caught red-footed when he was arrested … because of the footprints he left .
13 Eat them or mash them up and put them on your face — with their soothing properties , carrots really earn their ‘ skin-food ’ label .
14 Now put them on your head . ’
15 put them on your desk and then arrange them in the order that you know I approve .
16 So you can just sort of take them out and put them on your desk , all the bone erm all the pottery .
17 If you do all that for us you can then get gather all those bits and pieces together and put them on your commission claim .
18 put them on my bed .
19 There is little doubt Brits are among the world 's most powerful boulderers , but put them on anything higher than an average cellar roof and they climb , with very few exceptions , like pumped , nervous and confused lemmings .
20 Anyway we can sort the problem because you 'll take them back a wo n't you ? put them outside your house , creating a smell they were playing up .
21 I 'll slip them on and put them under my shoes .
22 He studied his charges as the other instructors put them through their paces .
23 My hands are shaking again and I put them between my legs .
24 and they 're doing it again and again and again , it suits them , it suits the ones that are really rich to have ordinary people struggling like that and it suits them not to have that two hundred pounds a week going in to help those people and they 're the people who it suits who will decide whether that two hundred pounds a week goes to help on the mortgage or put them into what is it , a bed and , a bed and breakfast ?
25 Only if we put them into their context in the larger narrative , can we see what is going on and feel their full force .
26 When at last we got home , I would gently carry them indoors and put them into their beds , still asleep .
27 Well you were just talking about children erm my feeling is that we 're all children , there is no division between being a child and an adult and I think that they can accept a whole lot , but there 's a whole lot of adults that ca n't accept the shocks that are happening today and they put them into their subconscious and unfortunately it comes out in so many other ways — it comes over as a neurosis or as a mental disorder at some later date .
28 I wrapped some pieces of bread in a napkin , and put them into my bag while my parents were paying the bill .
29 And you were you were invited to take those home and they used to say , Put them into your big handkerchief and wrap them up .
30 The dreams were all in a mess on the top , so I got hold of them and put them underneath me to stop them blowing away ( not that there was any wind ) and hunted through the rest .
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