Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] put " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even local walkers were put off making their local rambles , aware that Mrs Chandler 's attacker could strike again . |
| 2 | ( Its position at the front of the volume was later regretted by Wordsworth as some readers were put off . ) |
| 3 | Market traders were put out when it was announced they would be losing their pitches to accommodate the big top . |
| 4 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that , if he is as keen as I am to provide a level playing field for road and rail , he should recognise that , when motorways were built around Greater Manchester , of three footpaths that crossed the motorway , one was closed or diverted and bridges or underpasses were put in for the other two . |
| 5 | After the Bolshevik revolution and the creation of the Communist International in 1919 , most British Marxists were put into a situation which had never previously existed for any part of the British labour movement . |
| 6 | He seemed to understand me , because immediately ladders were put against my sides and little men climbed up with baskets of food and drink . |
| 7 | Eventually heads were put together , a suitable ‘ incident ’ was manufactured to satisfy all concerned , and the whole episode chalked up to experience , at least as far as J. was concerned . |
| 8 | The phone was disconnected and the family 's heads were put in pillowcases . |
| 9 | Erm most have , in fact most of which is er b er seventy four additional heads were put on in March , so we 've gone from seventeen twenty three to seventeen ninety seven erm and Mick accounted for most of those with forty four . |
| 10 | At Nicaea in 325 the bishops and priests ( from the Western part of the empire , only priests attended ) were called together by the emperor because theological disputes were putting too much of a strain on the unity he was striving to achieve . |
| 11 | During July 1690 , demonstrating the French command of the Narrow Seas , small landing parties were put ashore on the Sussex coast to put up posters urging local residents , and especially army and navy officers , to support their former king , a somewhat pointless propaganda exercise , but a much more serious incursion followed . |
| 12 | In the past , many governors who fell out with the Bermudians were put on a boat and sent back to London . |
| 13 | More trade-union sponsored Labour candidates were put forward in the 1929 General Election as unions recognized the failure of industrial action . |
| 14 | Two candidates were put up in each of three boroughs , Bethnal Green , Limehouse , and Shoreditch , for the LCC elections of March 1937 . |
| 15 | Thus in the period when Labour was still in opposition in the early part of the war — September 1939 to May 1940 — there were twenty-one by-elections , but only six Labour candidates were put up and they of course were for the previously Labour-held seats : two of these were unopposed and the other four faced candidates of fringe groups , who did not poll well . |
| 16 | The cakes and the presents were put on the table , then the children hid in the other room when they heard Perks coming home from work . |
| 17 | In 798 Cenwulf attacked it , captured Eadbert , and took him to Mercia , where his eyes were put out and his hands amputated . |
| 18 | Earlier , he said on East German television that it would be ‘ far from good , even dangerous ’ if European borders were put into question . |
| 19 | I do n't want to document my thesis at length , but Slovak conflict with Czechs , Croat conflict with Serbs , could not exist before 1918 when these peoples were put into the same states . |
| 20 | The computer-enhanced images were put together by police artists with help from Peter Sheldon , 18 , who was with his brother when he was stabbed to death . |
| 21 | The Scots were put to flight with heavy casualties , and Berwick surrendered . |
| 22 | The idea of providing proper station buildings was not forgotten , however , in 1988 , planning began in the hope of attracting grant aid and alternative designs were put forward for a new building . |
| 23 | By examining the way these animals were put together it is possible to suggest a likely mode of life . |
| 24 | Animals were put on Earth for people to use as well as care for . |
| 25 | TWO boozy Geordie dads were put on the next flight home from Majorca for having no papers . |
| 26 | Over the years , as the services grew , eight Islanders were put into use ; but a larger aircraft became necessary . |
| 27 | Recordings were put out by small companies and would have limited sales compared to popular , commercial discs . |
| 28 | These recordings were put out speculatively and sold really well . |
| 29 | The seventy eight saturated books were put through it , after trials . |
| 30 | It is not uncommon to find the spaces still blank in early books , the scribe not having arrived before the books were put on the market . |