Example sentences of "putting [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't keep putting off the choice . |
| 2 | One way of putting off the day of replacement is to take more care of existing cutlery . |
| 3 | Money-Go-Round : Putting off the day when tax falls due |
| 4 | Last week , parliament finally decided not to vote on the bill , effectively putting off the decision until after parliamentary elections in the autumn — and perhaps forever . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a cunning way of putting off the problem . |
| 6 | Erm , I think it 's a false economy to cut on maintenance , you only leave trouble there , you 're putting off the problem for our successors . |
| 7 | There is nothing like putting off the chore to send you diving to the cookie jar ! |
| 8 | Lamarck proposed that transmutation was responsible for the changes , thus putting off the need to confront the possibility that Nature may allow some of its products to disappear . |
| 9 | The council would spend £10m more than Governments limits , putting off the need for drastic cuts . |
| 10 | His eloquence was somewhat impaired by the presence on the bed of the current mistress , the Roman Catholic Duchess of Portsmouth , but eventually he succeeded in having her removed and in persuading the King to send for the Queen to seek her forgiveness for the wrongs he had done her ; the King however kept putting off the administration of the Holy Sacrament , and Ken was removed from the room in Charles 's last hours as he was received into the Roman Catholic Church by a priest smuggled into the palace by his brother and successor , James II . |
| 11 | It is a time when people , putting off the reality of Monday morning , do n't want to be disturbed . |
| 12 | Normally we 'd expect these buoys to move west in the south equatorial current under the influence of the south easterly trade winds but during alminio winds become weak and westerly and buoys putting off the coast of Peru seemed to wander about aimlessly . |
| 13 | He stood and watched her , putting off the moment when . |
| 14 | Turning the attack back on Doyle was a way of defending her — and of putting off the moment when he had to answer the question himself . |
| 15 | But in fact all I was doing was putting off the moment of reckoning . |
| 16 | The fattest child in the class shrank to the back of the queue , putting off the moment of agony and ridicule . |
| 17 | I 'm looking out of the window , putting off the moment when there will be nothing left to find out and all this has to end . |
| 18 | I sometimes stand there in the darkness for a moment , watching them , putting off the moment when I walk up the five tessellated steps to the front door . |
| 19 | Not one organisation wrote to the Home Secretary indicating they were supporting what the Government is now putting for the House . |
| 20 | worked up the ladder , but , what 's required in a judge , I would say , put putting for the moment , what we 've just been discussing on the side , that is , any question of bias , or sex bias , a judge is there in court , to perform an intellectual . |
| 21 | At the till , worried parents are putting through the week 's shopping . |
| 22 | What 's he putting against the wall ? |
| 23 | Auctioneer Jacques Tajan of the Paris firm Ader-Tajan and former partner of Jean-Louis Picard , held his own successful Middle Eastern sale in Monaco , putting under the hammer the art collection of Turkish-born Ilhamy Hussein Pasha , a French Riviera socialite and former associate of King Farouk of Egypt . |
| 24 | Numerically , Miliutin wrote , Russia 's forces looked strong , but it was doubtful whether they could withstand the fresh and well-organized armies which the enemy would be putting into the field against them . |
| 25 | According to the initial agreement , any foreign warship putting into the port was to be greeted by a Polish warship and escorted inside the port canal for an exchange of courtesies . |
| 26 | Despite Schlesinger 's claims that ‘ there was n't anything in the movie that I had n't seen in some way somewhere ’ and ‘ one was always confronted by something worse on the streets than one was putting into the film ’ , they were attention-getting elements , unabsorbed into the texture of the film . |
| 27 | And although Things to Come ( 1936 ) offers a spectacular account of the horrors of mechanized warfare , no one was thinking of the native audience when putting into the mouth of Raymond Massey a description of Britain as ‘ that last dismal vestige of ancient predatory soldiery , the last would-be conquerors . ’ |
| 28 | Lord Lane did , however , express concern on behalf of the court that to some people , ‘ putting into the dock together defendants who [ had ] been arrested on different occasions or at different places makes it difficult to avoid the appearance of ‘ group justice ’ . |
| 29 | Here we are putting into the workspace ‘ W ’ the names of students held in the relation called ‘ ATTENDANCE ’ who are taught by the lecturer called ‘ CLARKE ’ ( see Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 30 | There had also been recent newspaper reports of Bugis prahus putting into the atolls east of Celebes , burning the villages to the ground , and making off with the whole year 's harvest of copra the oil-bearing coconut husks — which was the inhabitants ' sole source of income . |