Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] to put the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my task to put the material together . |
| 2 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
| 3 | Bankers like to see governments breaking their election promises because this proves that they are in earnest in their attempts to put the economy to rights . |
| 4 | She had made up her mind to put the past behind her . |
| 5 | A question for the middlemen is the choice of which side to put the rope . |
| 6 | Animal rights campaigners , the architects of the initiative , indicated their intention to put the issue before the electorate again . |
| 7 | This Government have done more than any of their predecessors to put the environment at the top of the agricultural agenda . |
| 8 | The psychological well being of the victims and their ability to put the crime behind them is a very important part of their needs . |
| 9 | The second half turned into a very different story as Charlton packed the mid-field , although United had their chances to put the game well beyond their reach until the eighty first minute when the impressive Robert Lee slipped the ball past Ken Vasey to give Charlton a point they really did n't deserve . |
| 10 | Similarly , although Rank turned down Sydney Box 's first independent feature , 29 Acacia Avenue ( 1945 ) , on the grounds that the innocuous story about an aborted premarital romp was ‘ immoral ’ , and offered him £40,000 to put the film on the shelf , he was later to give Box the job of running Gainsborough 's production programme . |
| 11 | He set the canvas bag down and walked around it , changing his grip to put the weight on his other side for a while . |
| 12 | A trooper shot the Lieutenant 's horse , leaning from his saddle to put the bullet plumb into the beast 's skull . |
| 13 | While Don Peters was on his feet on the second day of the meeting of the European Planning Committee , explaining his plan to rejuvenate the ailing British vehicle division , Fred Clasper was also on his feet setting in motion his scheme to put the final nail in its coffin . |
| 14 | There was nothing to stop the guy carrying out his threat to put the husband wise about Laura 's past . |
| 15 | My answer was no , and about an hour later my boss called me into his office to put the pressure on . |
| 16 | : - ) : - ) Seriously , this could be our chance to put the mailing list on the map . |
| 17 | said yeah , Richard is using your address to put the banns in here with Angela |