Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] put " in BNC.
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| 1 | At worst , this is quite simply being ignored : neither the LEA adviser , nor the head nor any one else asks about special interests and skills developed on the course and how these could be most effectively put to good use in the school . |
| 2 | As he rather paradoxically put it , the final cause had to be first . |
| 3 | As he rather gloomily put together a breakfast of poached egg and grilled bacon he felt neither particularly healthy nor particularly clear-minded . |
| 4 | He managed furthermore discreetly to put into circulation the audacious proposal that he should be the first Governor-General of the two independent states . |
| 5 | He 's a beautiful hunk of male virility , something you 'll never be , and I enjoy playing around with him , as you so delicately put it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ No , not at all , ’ Robyn murmured through clenched teeth , ‘ because , you see , I do n't grub around as you so delicately put it — I design . ’ |
| 7 | Wants me to — as she so delicately puts it — get off my behind and scare the loathsome Gittelspawn to death . |
| 8 | Keith Floyd , the housewife 's galloping choice and tippling gourmet extraordinaire , has said goodbye to the roues of Provence , the stews of West Cork and embarked upon , as he so professionally put it , ‘ the BBC maxi-break of a lifetime ’ . |
| 9 | Robyn had a reputation in the family for being strong-willed , or , as her brother Basil less flatteringly put it , ‘ bossy ’ . |
| 10 | Small booksellers often do n't have time to see however many reps would be calling on them ; they would much rather put all their orders together and send them to Hammicks or to Heathcote or whoever ; we will work with them on that . |
| 11 | But , as the French report so politely puts it : |
| 12 | Well , Mr Chairman , I think er , you know , it 's all right putting forward a budget like this , but there 's only one person who got paid for it , and that 's the general public . |
| 13 | All these systems dealt with the problem of how to dispose of stock when , as Day 's library so elegantly put it on the slip , ‘ the first demand for the book has abated ’ . |
| 14 | Until this legacy is tackled we believe MPG6 should make it absolutely clear that no new permissions should be granted , for to do so merely puts off the evil day when the problem of old permissions has to be confronted . |
| 15 | Until this legacy is tackled we believe MPG6 should make it absolutely clear that no new permissions should be granted , for to do so merely puts off the evil day when the problem of old permissions has to be confronted . |
| 16 | We 've still got thirty still got thirty cos we have n't taken any so perhaps put twelve nought nought under that and take it away . |
| 17 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 18 | SERVICEMEN and women are seldom in the same place long enough to put down roots and buy their own home . |
| 19 | Yet qualifying for a black belt usually takes at least three years ( see table ) — long enough to put most westerners off . |
| 20 | But if I were a free agent , I think what I 'd do now is keep Rainbow hammering away at this lost cause just long enough to put the wind up those damned smug ben Issachars . |
| 21 | As Henry James so memorably put it in his great essay , ‘ The Art of Fiction ’ , ‘ Experience is never limited , and it is never complete … |
| 22 | So they had all foolishly put the ‘ X ’ on the ballot paper and thought to themselves , ‘ Just think , I 'll be able to tell the grandchildren that I was partly responsible for world peace . ’ |
| 23 | What redress is there to be for independent bankers who are to be immune from dismissal and are to have , as Pöhl so quaintly put it , ‘ adequate financial arrangements during and after their term in office ’ ? |
| 24 | There is , however , a worrying trend that is perhaps best put down to enthusiasm . |
| 25 | Basically just to put some flesh on the bones of what Michael has said that that is a view of the w of the Greater York study that erm the A sixty four south corridor is more likely er to er serve the needs of Leeds then it is to serve the needs of of of York . |
| 26 | So just put the , the course name in Team Focus , your own name , if you know what that is , the date is the |
| 27 | So just put your Christian names , please , and under acc. or A C C just put your accent , your , your birthright if you like . |
| 28 | So just put a paragraph in , saying why you 've chosen this particular bit , and in fact , all of you can do that . |
| 29 | Sir Thopas is the tale told by the self-mocking comedian and parodist , producing as the Host so richly puts it , " " drasty rymyng " " that " " is nat worth a toord " " ( VII : 930 ) . |
| 30 | A great deal of emphasis tends to be put on personal contacts , as though knowing a journalist personally somehow puts him or her in your pocket . |