Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to put the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time has come to put the national interest above the special interest and totally eliminate political action committees . |
| 2 | His chance to do this has come with the microwave report , but he has decided to put the interests of microwave manufacturers first . |
| 3 | The owner of this curio , Mark Noel Johnston , has decided to put the Bass VI up for sale , alongside a variety of other desirable instruments . |
| 4 | Rory Gallagher has decided to put the boot into the bootleggers with the first in a series of live concert recordings . |
| 5 | Jibes about past financial difficulties are no longer valid he says — the recent flotation by US parent Computervision Corp has helped to put the company back on an even keel and the interest VirtualStation is already attracting provides more reason for optimism . |
| 6 | He does , however , acknowledge that though " Conservative rhetoric is fundamentally consumerist rather than democratic , it has served to put the issue of school-parent relations near the centre of educational debate and has led to legislation which increases parental involvement " ( Jones 1989:120 ) . |
| 7 | This afternoon provides the chance for the side Geoff Cooke has assembled to put the record straight with one last hurrah before retirement claims Winterbottom , Underwood , Dooley and Halliday for certain and possibly Webb too . |
| 8 | Oh I 've got a horrible feeling I 've forgotten to put the milk in the fridge . |
| 9 | I will always remember undoing that first roller — I had forgotten to put the neutraliser on , it looked like a nightmare and all my mates were calling me poodle head . |
| 10 | She had known as soon as they had arrived at the lodge that her heart had made the right decision , even though it felt irresponsible and utterly childish to be spending a summer like this , at her age , and after all the work she had done to put the initials MD after her name . |
| 11 | Well done Theresa ooh you 've forgot to put the shell on Theresa , Theresa you 've forgot the shell where you going to put the shell ? |
| 12 | In January President de Klerk had offered to put the option of a volkstaat on the agenda at the CODESA talks [ see p. 38705 ] . |
| 13 | After rugged David Shearer barged over Jimmy Carter and Lee Dixon before firing home Blackburn 's 85th-minute decider , Graham conceded : ‘ We 've got to put the physical side of our game back in place — even if it means sacrificing some of the attractive football we want to play . ’ |
| 14 | So one person will do the bandage on the elbow and the other person with the good looking knees , you 'll be the casualty for where you 've got to put the knee bandage on , cos you wo n't , if you do n't roll your trousers up a bit you 're not going to have much bandage to do much bandaging with on the knee , okay , so decide amongst yourselves who 's got the good looking knee |
| 15 | You 've got to put the clef at the beginning of it you really ought to . |
| 16 | You 've got to put the basin upside down in the middle of the tin or the ducklings 'll fall in and drown . ’ |
| 17 | So , all that you need to think , to remember things like , do n't , is that it 's do not , and you 've got to put the apostrophe in where the letter 's been missed . |
| 18 | It 's almost mesmeric as well is n't it , this repetition of now , now , now between between the but as as you were saying , it 's sketching all the details in so you , if you were sketching a fox , you know you begin somewhere and say you begin with the nose you 've just got a little detail the nose and the eyes but eventually you 've got to put the whole sketch in . |
| 19 | Oh you 've got to put the red one up near this ? |
| 20 | Well no y she could n't put the B side in cos she s you 've got to put the A in . |
| 21 | cos it 's made out of aluminium and you 've got to put the glass in , it 's really expensive I tell you |
| 22 | Mind you , you just have to learn , you can only , you 've got to put the paper up that sticks have n't you ? |
| 23 | and I said then on the , on the Saturday his leg , his wound , he come out of intensive care on the Wednesday and on the Saturday his , his dressing had n't been changed on his leg and it reeked and I said can we actually please have a clean dressing for my dad 's leg , even if I 've got to put the bugger on myself , that was at quarter past eight |
| 24 | Yeah , but then you 've got to put the containers inside them so that 's another few quid , yeah , right , wait and see what he says . |
| 25 | Well I would the only thing I can say in this is this cash , I know they said they 'd get it got in the piggy bank before the poll tax , but as they keep shouting about they 've got to put the poll tax up , they 've got no money , they they 're putting the staff off and one thing and another . |
| 26 | I 've , I failed miserably so I thought , I 've had to put the apprentice on it you see ! |
| 27 | Seb also managed to stutter his thanks to Christian before following Carrie to the kitchen where she had gone to put the kettle on the hob to make coffee for everyone . |
| 28 | The realism and moderation of the Bad Godesberg programme , the bankruptcy of Adenauer 's Cold War policies , the change in popular attitudes on socio-economic issues in the 1960s , the alliance with the FDP and Brandt 's own popularity had combined to put the SPD securely in office . |
| 29 | He had tried , oh yes , he had tried to put the feeling in its place when he first recognised it . |
| 30 | She 's got to put the |