Example sentences of "was [adj] to put the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although when regressed one does not go back to the immediate past life , then the one before it , then the one before that and so on , by the time Martin had experienced regression six times it was possible to put the lives in chronological order so that we could try and see if there was any lesson to be learnt from them . |
| 2 | Furthermore , Adenauer was prepared to put the question of national unity on the back burner as a result of his clear moral choice for the values of the West . |
| 3 | ‘ I was careful to put the bleach in the front of the trolley and the meat at the back , ’ he explained . |
| 4 | ‘ At the same time she knew that there were outstanding mortgages on the house amounting to at least £36,000 and she was reluctant to put the family home at risk by borrowing more money which would virtually leave them without an equity . |
| 5 | Highlander was able to put the YCCC in touch with other community groups in the mountains which had a wide variety of similar experiences of toxic waste dumping in their communities . |
| 6 | And yet the Festival proved not to be the beginning of the new civically planned and visually gayer Britain of which it held out a promise , but the swan-song of the era in which it was patriotic to put the community first and all pull together , as directed . |
| 7 | Blake is satisfied that the threat of a formal sample was enough to put the wind up the company . |
| 8 | They had agreed it was best to put the coins on the market one by one ; a flood of rare coins , some without provenance and others with the sort of provenance which would interest the police , would be bound to arouse suspicion . |
| 9 | He was eager to put the past in order , and to make his peace with those who had once been his contemporaries . |