Example sentences of "[vb past] put the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , but it might be relevant if his family tried to put the blame on his employer . ’ |
| 2 | Kelly tried to put the self-doubt from her mind . |
| 3 | She tried to put the headlights on again , and then turned the ignition switch , but there was no response . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 5 | Finally they reached home and tried to put the kettle on for a welcome cup of tea — to discover their water had been cut off . |
| 6 | We felt this should not be allowed to stand in the way of the child protection process , so we tried to put the responsibility where it should properly lie — with the perpetrator . ’ |
| 7 | her back as she tried to put the class against me , |
| 8 | Charles ' smashed brain tried to put the words together . |
| 9 | Staff tried to put the fire out themselves , but were soon driven back by the intense heat and thick smoke given off from burning tyres . |
| 10 | He quickly tried to put the record straight by claiming he had simply meant they operated better than before they held their own funds . |
| 11 | Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . |
| 12 | These arguments had not at first cut much ice with social democrats , but two further ideological strands came to prominence in this period which helped to put the advocates of social progress through public spending and ‘ welfarism ’ onto the defensive , or even convince them of the folly of their ways : the monetary theory of inflation , and the ‘ too few producers ’ thesis of Bacon and Eltis ( 1976 ) . |
| 13 | Again , one of the main sources of supply today and one that helped to put the Whitby industry out of business during the late nineteenth century , is centred on Oviedo in Spain , which draws its supplies from Lower Cretaceous marls in Asturias . |
| 14 | Mr Cavaco Silva tried put the brakes on his currency by cutting key interest rates by 1 p.c. to just under 18 p.c. and by selling escudos but the pound ended the day less than 1 p.c. away from its floor of 241.5 against the Portuguese currency , despite successful British efforts over the weekend to force Portugal to join at a higher rate than the Lisbon government had planned on Friday . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I 'm just the guy who helped put the parcel together . |
| 16 | When Miss C gave the evidence that helped put the doctor away , she broke down in tears . |
| 17 | He helped put the wrap over her shoulders and she was silent on the short drive home . |
| 18 | I tried putting the boys in nursery school , but they screamed the place down . |
| 19 | Well as soon as you came to put the shed up |
| 20 | I was very pleased er when I came to put the book together to find that er most of er most of the actual walks corresponded with what was on the paper , which was nice , so I did n't have to waste much time . |
| 21 | A news snippet in Sounds seemed to put the situation succinctly into perspective : |
| 22 | Eleanor came wearing a red suit , and he felt so turned on that he forgot to put the water in the teapot . |
| 23 | ‘ Then I have always kept to making the Ovaltine last thing , and on Friday night I forgot to put the sugar in for him and went to get the bowl . |
| 24 | ‘ I forgot to put the teaspoons out . ’ |
| 25 | I forgot to put the change in the , get it in , she 's moved to the other |
| 26 | I forgot to put the box back . ’ |
| 27 | I bet they forgot to put the heating on something earlier or , service that and not got |
| 28 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 29 | Forgot to put the sugar in . |
| 30 | It 's got ginger biscuits in but I forgot to put the ginger in them . |