Example sentences of "put [pron] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table . |
| 2 | And if you had paper plates people put them down on the floor , inevitably , somebody got drunk and put their plate on the floor , they were probably thinking about something else , and then the beet juice or the goo or whatever , soaked through the paper plate and onto the carpet and you never , never got it out . |
| 3 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 4 | But I just said put them down in the book . |
| 5 | Skirting a tinker camp , Mrs M. eventually put me down beside the fast-flowing River Moy at Ballina . |
| 6 | The boy carried me in my travelling box , and put me down on the beach , while he looked for birds ' eggs among the rocks . |
| 7 | The slogans were in ill-formed , illiterate script and Owen at first put it down as the work of children ; not the children who went to the kuttub , who were infants , but older youths . |
| 8 | and among they put it down as the parents er ca n't control her . |
| 9 | Insiders put it down to the pressure of competing for six and seven figure salaries . |
| 10 | I put it down to the necessity for him to exhibit his physical superiority from time to time , in order to maintain his ‘ throne ’ and his following of stooges . |
| 11 | ‘ Put it down to the movement of the ship . |
| 12 | You argue with one another and put it down to the fact that people who are prejudiced are ignorant . |
| 13 | Again I put it down to the stresses of presenting a live programme five days a week . |
| 14 | Put it down to the wine ! |
| 15 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 16 | Shannon had , rather uncharitably , put it down to the lure of the man 's fame — people simply liked to be close to the famous . |
| 17 | No , because er I always put it down to the fact that most of our takings were in coin , it was very seldom that you had a pound note , you possibly had a ten pound note in those days but most of it was coinage and the cash when it was married up , was put into steel bound wooden boxes . |
| 18 | Some put it down to the sheer popularity of the winner Nigel Jones — others to the alleged racism of would-be Tory voters , unwilling to endorse the party 's official candidate , the barrister John Taylor . |
| 19 | She took hold of it and put it down on the floor . |
| 20 | I felt disinclined actually to hand to him the piece of paper I was holding , and so put it down on the end of his bed . |
| 21 | Carew folded the paper and put it down on the cluttered tray beside him . |
| 22 | From one of the voluminous pockets he produced a bottle of Scotch and put it down on the table . |
| 23 | He sipped at his wine again , then put it down on the arm of his chair and , keeping a finger and thumb on the stem , twisted it one way , then the other . |
| 24 | She wandered back into the small sitting-room with her mug of tea , put it down on the polished surface of a table but removed it hastily in case it left a tell-tale ring which S. Kettering might complain about in the future . |
| 25 | Julia got out of bed , took the tray back from Annunziata , put it down on the chest of drawers and hugged her . |
| 26 | Nick closed his book , put it down on the scorched grass beside him and got out his pipe . |
| 27 | Well put it down on the table for a minute then . |
| 28 | Just put it down on the side there . |
| 29 | See I could , I could just take it round the edge of your carpet , you know , just , if er , if you want me to , if you want me to I 'll , I can lift the edge of your carpet and put it down onto the floor |
| 30 | The chemist drew a chair from his dispensary at the rear of the shop and put it down beside the soaps and talcum powders , the bath salts and the loofahs . |