Example sentences of "to put [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He departed again and , after a moment 's thought , I went into the office to put through a call to Doone 's police station . |
| 2 | When they had gone , Cramer used the phone in the garage to put through a call to Sir Harry Marriott at his home and give him the news — the phone was more secure than a police radio band . |
| 3 | After about ten minutes of deliberation , Fabia could plainly see that there was only one place to start , and that was to put through a call to Lubor in the hope that Ven had phoned him too last night . |
| 4 | Erm , there is a very small chance that he 's going to say , all the time that I was on , on top of Everest , er , I was thinking about you , because I 've heard you 're the best thing since sliced wholemeal bread , I have three thousand people that I want to put through a programme in the next six weeks . |
| 5 | Oh no no just they were bringing the corn to put through the crusher . |
| 6 | And the ones you brought into the yard to put through the scrapper , you cut the leaves off . |
| 7 | ‘ In those stations it is the management that has now refused to put through the emergency calls . |
| 8 | In the run-up to such a referendum , do the Government really intend to put through the letterboxes of Britain 17 million textbooks entitled ’ Fixed Exchange Rates and the Economic Consequences of EMU , by John Major ’ ? |
| 9 | Environmental Minister , Nicholas Ridley , has forced Councillors to put off a decision over the building of a controversial holiday village in his own constituency . |
| 10 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 11 | I hate doing it so much that I think I will find just one more excuse to put off the preaching . |
| 12 | And since the effect would be to put off the catastrophe indefinitely , since Capitalism could now continue by reason of policies which provided also a solution to the problem of unemployment , Empirical Socialism need no longer distinguish itself from the Marxist version solely by the method and pace of change , by being evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 13 | He opened his lips , struggling to put off the pride and bitterness that held him mute ; but the slight rustle of the tapestry at the door spoke first , and eloquently , and when he looked up David was gone , leaving still silent on the air between them the name that was not to be spoken . |
| 14 | ‘ I want you to put off the library today , ’ she would say . |
| 15 | Its very length was designed to put off the rank and file member from reading it . |
| 16 | Forcing back the tears , she watched Dame Sybil take a warm stone from the fireplace to put between the sheets of the bed . |
| 17 | The Cleveland Rotofac Trust has received £500 from Middlesbrough Council 's Community Chest to put towards a cruiser to take the disabled on trips on local waterways . |
| 18 | So like yourself , you 've got a daughter , who perhaps fifteen , twenty years ' time , will be getting married , at which point the policy could be surrendered to put towards the cost of the wedding . |
| 19 | But not as black as the mark that the ensuing conversation was to put against the producer 's name . |
| 20 | The second part of the theistic pattern sketched in the last chapter which we need to put under the microscope is that which described God both as personal and as impersonal . |
| 21 | We shall be writing to you around August 1989 to check that the information that we intend to put onto the Register about you is correct . |
| 22 | The effect of these amalgamations , as far as this survey is concerned , has been to put onto the market what must be a large proportion of the original libraries . |
| 23 | Er that was the name of the manufacturer an you used to buy them on cards , they were all sizes and the big one you used to put onto the tips of your your er soles just in on the tips , to save the front of the shoe . |
| 24 | You do n't want to put up a wall between you and the band . |
| 25 | But it was another moment , another gift from life , to put with the others . |
| 26 | A young child faced with a row of cups and a pile of saucers might have no other way of finding whether he has enough saucers to put with the cups than to match them as far as possible , one-to-one . |
| 27 | ‘ What about cards to put with the orders ? ’ she asked . |
| 28 | The research team acquired a mine of information , which they decided to put into a teaching pack for midwives and other health professionals , and it was then that the project began to take over Mrs Kelsall 's life . |
| 29 | He was now working for another futures broker and wanted these both for his own business , and to put into a mailing list he would sell . |
| 30 | ‘ As a consortium , we have no heavy capital to put into a bond , ’ says Consort 's David Sankey . |