Example sentences of "put up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wisden had some strong words to say about the fourth game , back in Trinidad : ‘ England put up a performance which exposed to the crowd of 21,000 what depths of incompetence they had reached … after two days off following the Test defeat , the first practice was made optional — and Gower himself was one of the six who failed to attend . ’ |
| 2 | The Bank of England assumed ownership of JMB and put up a £75 million indemnity to cover claims and a £100 million loan to strengthen JMB 's balance sheet . |
| 3 | Luckily the victim put up a fight and a couple of passers-by joined in , so that the assailant failed to accomplish what the local newspaper delicately referred to as ‘ his appalling purpose . ’ ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Father put up a fight , but he had no chance against seven armed men . |
| 5 | Only Nasser Hussain ( 52 ) put up a fight in the Essex innings , with some dogged resistance from Derek Pringle and Mike Garnham . |
| 6 | ‘ Come on , cissy , ’ Mike hissed , ‘ put up a fight . |
| 7 | But him put up a fight . |
| 8 | ‘ She put up a fight . ’ |
| 9 | Had he , perhaps , put up a fight ? |
| 10 | Wang Xizhe , a factory worker from Guangzhou , was an activist in the pro-democracy movement in China who helped to write and put up a 100-metre newspaper wall in his city in 1974 which attracted worldwide interest . |
| 11 | We papered the walls white and put up a border : with curtains and a lampshade to match , it only came to around £50 . |
| 12 | Used to be when a carpenter put up a door he put up a door . |
| 13 | Used to be when a carpenter put up a door he put up a door . |
| 14 | Design a colour-coordinated room , grow plants in it , or put up a bookshelf to help those 300 hours pass more quickly ! |
| 15 | If he put up a scheme , you would be willing to follow him to the ends of the earth to ensure its fulfilment . |
| 16 | By day , she put up a shelter against the sun and listened to the cacophony inside her . |
| 17 | Ladbrokes put up a £10,000 reward for the capture of the killer . |
| 18 | The workers later had to be treated in hospital for minor injuries and today the Royal Mail put up a £10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the attackers . |
| 19 | Indeed , their first trip to Scotland since 1981 would not have been possible without the assistance of four British-based companies trading in Eastern Europe who at the eleventh hour put up a total of £10,000 . |
| 20 | The three bodies last year put up a total of £245,000 of the event 's total cost of more than £300,000 . |
| 21 | ‘ All three put up a struggle to fight off the attacker . |
| 22 | His victim , who has not being identified , put up a struggle despite being coshed across her back with a piece of hosepipe . |
| 23 | Kennedy put up a variety of items for auction , the whole collection bringing in over eighty-eight thousand pounds . |
| 24 | The Japanese interned those who surrendered without a struggle and killed all those French elements who put up a resistance . |
| 25 | It 's only a small room so we got an offcut of carpet , and we painted it and put up a frieze and curtains . |
| 26 | As well as decorating the front door with balloons , put up a sign ‘ Welcome to the ranch ’ . |
| 27 | He said the only other complaint was in November when he put up a sign advertising the guest house . |
| 28 | It is here , in a communal context , that gang members ( in this case the racist ‘ Little Murderers ’ and ‘ Big Murderers ’ ) put up a front to impress their own members , other gangs and respectable citizens . |
| 29 | When I first came to live here this room ran through to the back of the house , but my husband put up a partition , so we have a small room at the back where we can have our meals . |
| 30 | Trained by Martin Pipe , Chatam put up a sterling effort in February when beaten a head by Jodami in the Hennessy Gold Cup in Ireland but he is also prone to errors . |