Example sentences of "put [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is easy enough with record sheets and drawings , which can simply be photocopied or put on to microfilm , but is far more of a problem with a photographic record comprising hundreds or thousands of slides and photographs . |
| 2 | Germany put in to practice its social ideology and policy in a much more vigorous way than Italy did . |
| 3 | At about the same time the red blotches on her Louisa 's face also disappeared — which the doctor put down to coincidence . |
| 4 | For two or three hundred years British pastures were widely being ploughed up and put down to grain to feed a fast-growing human population . |
| 5 | If anything she seemed even more voluble than usual , which Zen put down to embarrassment . |
| 6 | It may be , secondly , that the era of ‘ flexible accumulation ’ takes the form , not so much of sub-contracting between small firms within manufacturing , but rather of more work put out to service sector firms . |
| 7 | You ended up like poor old Eddy Moulton , put out to pasture in some quiet department where nobody bothered to talk to you , doing small unworthy chores and dozing the day away . |
| 8 | It can not be otherwise with the approach of death ; whether we go on pilgrimage with Raleigh or put out to sea with Tennyson , the metaphor of travel is one with which the poets have made us familiar . |
| 9 | The fishermen understood what she meant , that there could be a capsize if they put to sea , but they laughed at her , thinking she had mental hallucinations and put out to sea — at that time in calm conditions . |
| 10 | On Wednesday 18 May 1692 Admiral Edward Russell ( later Lord Orford ) put out to sea and at 4 am next day , Thursday 19 May , one of his frigates reported the enemy in sight . |
| 11 | So the wife took her bone pipes and a bone fish-hook , she stepped into the boat and put out to sea . |
| 12 | Greenfield put out to grass |
| 13 | Each time I was picked up , cuddled and put back to bed . |