Example sentences of "[prep] put [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who succeeded him as Secretary General of the Young Communists , Carlos Contreras Maluje , was picked up after putting up a struggle in the street . |
| 2 | Quinn hit the opposite pavement thirty-three seconds after putting down the phone on Zack . |
| 3 | Want to sort of put on the top of the wardrobe and then make it drop |
| 4 | N C V O has taken the initiative in putting up a number of ideas to the Prime Minister 's and the Home Office , to make this commitment a meaningful one , and a constructive one for voluntary organisations in this country . |
| 5 | In March 1171 the monks of St Martial 's , Limoges , though perhaps with some embarrassment , asked for , and were sent , aid in putting down a revolt of their townsmen at La Souterraine , a revolt which had the backing of Count Audebert of La Marche . |
| 6 | In this Dream , that was tantamount to putting out a contract on God . |
| 7 | EXPANSION IS a worthy label devoted solely to putting out the sort of soul music you might have thought had died with Philadelphia International in the early '80s . |
| 8 | They called him the One-Eyed Guest and Elisabeth recalled how , when she was young , the peasants never harvested a field without putting out a sheaf for Odin 's horse . |
| 9 | I remember during the rehearsals for Die Zauberflöte he criticized the Sarastro for putting on the kind of unctuous tone that , according to Gründgens , was best left to indoctrination meetings for the Party faithful . |
| 10 | Are you thinking about putting up a bit of holly this year ? |
| 11 | The world of the theatre is about putting up an image of glamour , glitter and romance for a couple of hours each day . |
| 12 | THE Canadian city of Winnipeg is planning to celebrate its connection with Winnie the Pooh , little known outside the esoteric realm of A A Milne specialists , by putting up a statue of the small bear . |
| 13 | By putting up a clergyman as a candidate , he could rely on the vote of hundreds of MAs who , sitting in their country rectories , could easily be persuaded by a judiciously worded letter that their old University was falling into the hands of infidels . |
| 14 | There is perhaps an element of do-gooding about certain taxes and even today there are Treasury ministers who smugly claim they are doing the nation 's health a favour by putting up the levy on cigarettes , alcohol and petrol . |
| 15 | And they have a bill , an bill of two hundred and fifty four pounds for the lighting , erm they think it 's an important community opportunity to have good entertainment on their doorstep , and they 've only been able to balance their proposed production this year , by putting up the price by fifty pence . |
| 16 | Bismarck followed it up by putting out a feeler to Great Britain , but nothing came of it . |