Example sentences of "been put down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are , Hemingway writes , ‘ doing coolie labor for a top wage of $45 a month and they have been put down on the Florida Keys where they ca n't make trouble . |
| 2 | Much of the credit for Mansell 's success has been put down to the sophistication and reliability of the Didcot developed Williams car . |
| 3 | You may laugh , but already deposits worth £30,000 have been put down for the book and at least 5,000 people have telephoned bookshops to express an interest . |
| 4 | The gentle mercies of the lash were used even more extravagantly for civilising the ‘ primitive ’ peoples of the Empire in the nineteenth century , and in one of its anti-garotting tirades Punch ( 6 December 1862 ) had good cause to remember the lesson of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 which had been put down in a sea of blood . |
| 5 | True , Gilels does half-smudge the odd chord but , then , his recording gives the impression of having been put down in a handful of massive musically organic takes , where the new Philips occasionally betrays signs of cutting-room technology . |
| 6 | An early day motion has also been put down in the House of Commons supporting their case . |
| 7 | The Commander embarked on one of his monologues on the supineness of the Tory government and the unregenerate socialism of the opposition , interrupted only by murmurs of approval from Fagg , who contributed the insight that rioting yobs in a northern city should have been put down by the Gurkhas . |
| 8 | The Bill is bound to be extensively amended before it reaches the statute book — at the time of writing 16 , amendments have been put down by the Government and 25 of them are of major importance — but it is believed that few if any of these amendments will affect settlements under which there is subsisting an interest in possession . |