Example sentences of "put [pers pn] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 Yet , in the sterling crisis , he put them up to 15 per cent for the day .
2 One seventy nine he put them up to .
3 Yeah one seventy nine he put them to , and then he put them up to one eighty two or summat and then they 've gone up to one eighty nine I think they are .
4 He put them back to work .
5 I simply did n't need any more , although after a year 's work the headmaster put me up to £7 a week .
6 Steven put me through to this Gwyllam
7 ‘ The Yard put me on to six other McCloys all more or less in the hardware business or on its fringes .
8 This put me on to finals with the trim wound fully aft , and I was able to further check the aircraft 's inherent stability by moving hands and feet from the controls for several seconds — the Aircoupe continued down the slope as on rails ( there was little wind or turbulence ) before a gentle flare demonstrated another safety feature .
9 I put him on to Kinsella .
10 She put him on to researching the availability of marble vanity-unit tops and free-standing occasional tables .
11 ‘ the lads ’ put him up to Blind Date
12 I would n't be surprised if Rose put him up to it ! ’
13 ‘ Are you saying you think someone put him up to it ? ’
14 We could look for the people who put him up to it .
15 Someone put him up to it . ’
16 Thereafter the company of the other horses kept him on course , and a bad mistake at the water jump on the second circuit worked to Mandarin 's advantage , as it put him back to fifth place and gave him horses to follow .
17 There was a pause , Riven trying to remember Minginish 's geography , but a few moments later Luib put him back to work .
18 He put her on to Mortgage Business , a company which offers high equity loans for the self-employed .
19 I suppose the Pigs put her on to me .
20 Blanche drove on and three hours later she was safe in Dornaway Castle , where she seemed so shaken that they put her straight to bed .
21 said Miss Polly put her straight to bed
22 he said Miss Polly put her straight to bed , he knocked on the door with a rat a tat tat you do it like that
23 I wan na do all of them on me own so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick , said Miss Polly put her straight to bed he wrote on a paper for a pill , pill , pill
24 ‘ Well , ’ Karen put her back to the window , leaning against it , and folded her arms .
25 I change the incontinence pad and put her back to bed .
26 She did n't like the answer she came up with one bit , but she put it nevertheless to Charity , very quietly .
27 yeah there was an actor erm and he was playing Russian roulette with and he put it up to his temple , pulled the trigger the blank went off , bloody blew his brains in .
28 She put it in to gear and eased out of the space , willing herself not to rush , not to panic .
29 Yevdoxia put it down to Chernobyl .
30 One of the early theories about the causes of hyperkinetic syndrome put it down to brain damage , but research has failed to find any evidence of this .
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