Example sentences of "put up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally an innovative structure was put up without spires and gargoyles : Congregationalists in the Hertfordshire villages of Braughing and Puckeridge spent £1,275 not just in refitting the chapels and manse but in building an unsectarian village centre where the minister acted as warden . |
| 2 | Sefton Council prosecutor Robin Thomaides told South Sefton court : ‘ The signs had been put up without planning permission and were clearly visible to passing motorists . ’ |
| 3 | Some of the asylum seekers are now being put up at bed and breakfast hotels in Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare . |
| 4 | Scaffolding worth £200 which had been put up at Firthmoor Infants School in Estoril Road South , Darlington , has been stolen . |
| 5 | A cricket scorebox is to be put up at Mainsforth recreation complex in Ferryhill to replace the recently demolished box . |
| 6 | As part of the NSE marketing drive , notices giving details of local places to visit have been put up at stations along the line , including the intermediate stops at Bures and Chappel and Wakes Colne — home of the East Anglian Railway Museum . |
| 7 | Well , that 's the quickest way to do it , we used to hang one below the other on the dredger , be put up at sunset and we used to take 'em down early in the morning , but you always had , you always had erm navigation lights up , must |
| 8 | ( Illegal posters acclaiming the overthrow and execution on Dec. 25 of the Romanian leader , Nicolae Ceausescu , had reportedly been put up on university campuses but quickly removed by the authorities . ) |
| 9 | Kevin Bird says she 's a brave girl — she 's put up with mortar fire , a tuma and now looks like having open heart surgery . |
| 10 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 11 | Her hair was put up with rhinestone forget-me-nots instead of diamanté ones and when her friend Mr Lewis says : ‘ might I divest you of your plastic mac ? ’ the whole process shut down for an hour or so whilst six fairly literate people racked their brains for a ‘ mac ’ substitute . |
| 12 | It was put up for £2.20 a square foot . |
| 13 | The tour , unsurprisingly , lost money ; both Oldfield 's own , and some £250,000 which Virgin had put up for tour support . |
| 14 | Except that the face on it was black , it was pretty nearly the same as the one Mother Bombie had put up for Joy Prentice . |
| 15 | A pleasant , very nearly a respectable , young man , it seemed , which was far more than could be said for the fellow they had put up for Bradford in 1841 , an Irishman of the wilder variety who had served his apprenticeship to the political trade in such select establishments as Northallerton House of Correction and the castle jails of Lancaster and York . |
| 16 | I paid surreptitious trips to our old homes in Ada Street and West Avenue , where the fences my father had put up for Granny Kirkup before the war — in 1934 , I believe — were still standing round the long garden of ‘ Mundesley ’ , named after my grandmother 's birthplace . |
| 17 | The Government with British Coal decided that they would get an independent consultant 's report to study how the mine could be put up for licence — whether under the consortium or under private ownership . |
| 18 | The cash ten times the amount offered by the dead woman 's husband Peter after the murder is being put up for information leading to the detection of the killer . |
| 19 | BLACKBURN Buccaneer S.1XK532 , gate guardian at RAF Lossiemouth since 1984 , is being put up for disposal . |
| 20 | Painted in the Company 's all yellow colour scheme and registered as SE–BRD , the Firefly flew with the Swedish company for thirteen years until being declared redundant , whereupon the aircraft was put up for disposal along with three other Mk 1s . |
| 21 | A former 56 Squadron example has flown into Woodvale , Merseyside , to replace Meteor T.7 WA591 , which will be put up for disposal . |
| 22 | Their South Molton cottage ( guide price £44,000-£46,000 ) is one of more than 20 lots to be put up for sale at the Barnstaple auction by Bristol and West Property Services , and one of more than a hundred which the building society subsidiary will be auctioning in eight West Country venues over a three-day period . |
| 23 | Lincoln went into receivership and was put up for sale on 4 February , 1922 . |
| 24 | On the way , they stopped at a farmhouse that was about to be put up for sale . |
| 25 | But he quashed rumours that the Red Fort had been quietly put up for sale due to his financial difficulties . |
| 26 | A stake in the business , which has come near to bankruptcy , is put up for sale . |
| 27 | Companies that were awarded routes might have the right to run services for , say ten years , before their franchise would be put up for sale again , like ITV companies . |
| 28 | Both share stakes are expected to be put up for sale over the next few months if the Hafnia merger goes ahead , and could allow a large French company to buy a key stake in the Nordic market . |
| 29 | Following the death of William Lewis in 1843 , both Port and Brimscombe Mill were put up for sale . |
| 30 | A short way from the Cirencester to Lechlade road , the mill and its associated buidings form a picturesque group recently put up for sale . |