Example sentences of "put [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE leaders have put off a warning to Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke that they might seek full trade union rights , including the option to strike . |
| 2 | THE BELGIAN government has put off a decision on whether to stump up cash for the nuclear plant being built by France at Chooz — a finger of France sucking into Belgian territory . |
| 3 | Hospital nurses opposing a plan to make them wear their own clothes for work have put off a decision to take action in protest . |
| 4 | The administration 's minority party has put off a decision whether to withdraw support for Prime Minister Albert Reynolds . |
| 5 | He said , arriving , ‘ The Doria 's put off a skiff with a message . |
| 6 | More than half say they would n't be put off a woman if they knew she carried condoms ; only 17% would regard it as a turn-off . |
| 7 | When he had put about a mile between him and the dragon he stopped and collapsed against a tree , which then spoke to him . |
| 8 | The Spaniards had put about a cover story that the fleet assembled at Cadiz was being made ready to sail to Sicily and Ormonde was forbidden to go near the port ; he was to be picked up from Corunna . |
| 9 | That , in fact , er there are three provinces who are already now contributing more than anyone else that , they feel that the churches should go forward to try and raise the minister 's to what was proposedly that the assembly last year , they should be paid thirteen thousand two hundred but in order to do that see another six hundred thousand pound raised and it is likely that this will be put as a challenge to the churches at assembly . |
| 10 | And sales at one of the country 's biggest marts could create traffic chaos , with more than 1,000 steers having to be put through a race at Borderway mart to check ear tags , causing traffic to back up onto the motorway . |
| 11 | A second squadron , B , would be formed at Kabrit from fresh volunteers and put through a crash training programme . |
| 12 | In fact , George Every , then a lay brother at Kelham , with whom I had started a correspondence , told me later that Eliot , while praising some individual points , had said that the general impression it gave was of material being put through a machine and coming out the other side more or less as it was before . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've put through a call to London and I 'm waiting for them to ring me up . |
| 14 | I 've put through a request for all the technical libraries to run the Jenner reference list through their own databanks at the end of each day . |
| 15 | If these definitions were put through a computer they would list five kinds of jumps , twenty-three pas de bourrée , seven glissades and so on . |
| 16 | The local Labour controlled council put through a scheme earlier this year to reduce rubbish collection to once a fortnight , they said because of the success of their recycling schemes . |
| 17 | Each new teacher is put through a period of what we can call social apprenticeship by the pupils in order to ascertain what sort of person and disciplinarian ( s ) he is going to be . |
| 18 | Well , it means quite a lot for the people who are living in Germany , especially the ones who are living in the East , because their economy has been so run down , it 's got to be put through a sort of shock treatment . |
| 19 | For instance , ‘ frame-grabbing ’ enables action pictures from a conference to be placed into a newsletter , which can then be put through a copier and distributed to delegates . |
| 20 | John McLeish , himself a forceful character , felt as if he had been put through a wringer . |
| 21 | It has long , though straw which is much sought-after by thatchers and harness-makers , and , if put through a chaff-cutter and mixed with chopped roots , is readily eaten by cattle . |
| 22 | After spending the better part of the morning crouched down painting skirting-boards , she felt as though she 'd been put through a mangle . |
| 23 | ‘ When sales staff are recruited , they are put through a training process , at the end of which there are exams . |
| 24 | If the requirements are put through a Loans Fund , then the net requirement of the authority is to borrow 1m ; |
| 25 | England manager Graham Taylor left him out of the European Championship squad last summer and Blackburn pulled put of a £3 million transfer at the 11th hour in August . |
| 26 | The money I was going to save on rent over the next month could be put towards a deposit on something — always assuming the Department of Employment did eventually pay me my due — and then I would be able to start again . |
| 27 | The interest gained from the money is used to cover the operating costs of the union , and any surplus can be put towards a dividend on savings , although the savings return is limited by a ceiling of 8 per cent . |
| 28 | Oh yeah yeah he 's put like a fillet on the front yeah yeah |
| 29 | He 's lucky the other man was n't put against a wall and shot . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah it c it can be put onto a loop . |