Example sentences of "[verb] putting [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | At the start of the plenum hardline critics proposed putting on the agenda discussion of separating the post of general secretary from that of state President . |
2 | Or even , when it was apparent that we were not going to get anywhere with the local government , the whole neighbourhood would get together on a Sunday to work putting in the drains or paving the streets . |
3 | In the farmhouse he practised putting on the gaiters and found it a struggle . |
4 | Of course , you will not be waiting for your child 's fifth or sixth birthday before you begin putting across the idea of good manners . |
5 | Do n't keep putting off the choice . |
6 | They thought it was worth around £100,000 , until a valuation for council tax arrived putting in the highest band — band H — for properties worth more than £320,000 . |
7 | Pump Court Chambers started putting on the seminars only last year and they now hold them every three or four months . |
8 | My two weeks VR training finished , I returned to Blackpool the next day to start putting on the Ice Show at the famous Pleasure Beach — quite a change ! |
9 | We have players of world-class like Wright , Limpar and Merson but they know they have to keep putting in the work-rate . |
10 | On Clarissa 's part , because she kept putting off the dreaded bread and butter telephone call , and that made her feel guilty and irritable . |
11 | If we find them , we can start putting on the pressure to locate the ship . |
12 | His eloquence was somewhat impaired by the presence on the bed of the current mistress , the Roman Catholic Duchess of Portsmouth , but eventually he succeeded in having her removed and in persuading the King to send for the Queen to seek her forgiveness for the wrongs he had done her ; the King however kept putting off the administration of the Holy Sacrament , and Ken was removed from the room in Charles 's last hours as he was received into the Roman Catholic Church by a priest smuggled into the palace by his brother and successor , James II . |