Example sentences of "put [pron] [noun] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put my hands out to the wall and , as I did so , the optimist still containing my legs , drifted away slowly , leaving my stomach sagging gracefully into the water . |
| 2 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 3 | to adhere to the programme because the newly privatised the newly privatised Water Authority and British Rail could n't affo could n't afford the finance to put their share in to the grants from Brussels . |
| 4 | ‘ If we had £3.40 , we would have to put our prices up to the customer and they would not buy , ’ said Wendy Heath , a machinist . |
| 5 | She put her points over to the juniors as well as she always did to everyone else , with a wonderful mix of candour , directness , understanding and humour — and always with a twinkle in the eye . |
| 6 | She put her hand up to the mound of hair upon her neck and a hairpin fell just audibly to the floor . |
| 7 | Marian put her hands out to the flames . |
| 8 | Woosnam put his revival down to the fact that he ‘ really loves this place , the atmosphere , the lot . |
| 9 | He put his feet on to the floor and saw that he still had his shoes on . |
| 10 | When he put his head up to the sound of my voice I could see the mess . |
| 11 | Robert could not understand it at first , but , after he put his ear back to the window , it resolved itself into two syllables : |
| 12 | Robert put his eye back to the pinhole . |
| 13 | Paradise Street police station , ’ Freddie called out in his most cultured voice , putting his face up to the closed wicket-gate . |
| 14 | This is what you must do : freeze your emotions by concentrating on putting your opponent on to the computer screen of your mind . |