Example sentences of "put [adv prt] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , then how do you explain the night I put down a copy of Viz , turned on the telly , and settled in for what I thought would be a programme of smart , irreverent comedy ? |
| 2 | ‘ Every day people see their house as a wasting , dwindling asset , the longer we put off a return of consumer confidence , ’ he said . |
| 3 | " Free ale all round tonight lads ! " he told them , and they put up a cheer of delight . |
| 4 | Warnie paid the cash deposit of £300 , and raised a mortgage of £500 , Minto 's trustees put up a mortgage of £1,500 and Jack raised a mortgage of £1,000 . |
| 5 | It 's not usual to make new partners put up a lot of cash . ’ |
| 6 | Events took ‘ a sinister turn ’ when the London drug-dealers put out a contract on Mr Dale , said counsel . |
| 7 | If you put out a dish of syrup during the summer , it might be days until the first bee found it . |
| 8 | Remember the communiqué they put out a couple of days ago ? |
| 9 | ‘ Because they knew Puddephat was supposed to be going abroad , ’ Tracey began , ‘ the cops put out a message through Interpol . |
| 10 | Billingham firemen put out a car on fire in Cowpen Bewley Road , Cowpen Bewley , near Billingham . |
| 11 | She crept stealthily along the gallery , not daring to put on a light in case she should wake Luke , past his room , feeling carefully in the half-darkness . |
| 12 | I 'd just like to put in a word for Salman Rushdie . |
| 13 | Bass , for example , requires a tenant to put down a deposit of £1,000 before he can even contemplate arbitration . |
| 14 | If I regurgitate this , it is simply to put down a vote of censure from this column on ministers , particularly Douglas Hogg of the Foreign Office , who did nothing to prepare for the eventuality of oil slicks . |
| 15 | Its place at the centre of government thinking was re-emphasised in April 1939 when the RCM was told that , henceforth , each guarantor would have to put up a deposit of £50 to support the cost of a child 's re-emigration . |
| 16 | This they call the " balanced slate " , and their insistent message is that whereas under our present system a vote for a party is a vote for just one candidate regardless of his precise political stance , the operation of the STV would allow a party , or rather oblige it , to put up a spread of candidates embracing and representing all the factions it supposedly includes . |
| 17 | Two banks were persuaded to put up a lot of money , so that by the time Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C came to consider the action , the loans including interest totalled around £40M . |
| 18 | What better time then for the Community Action Trust , the organisation behind the Crimestoppers scheme , to put up a reward of £5,000 for the same information ? |
| 19 | The earliest we could start work would be the 19th September , for which I would need to put out a call during August . |
| 20 | The aim of the discussion on full employment policy in his Cabinet committee was to put out a statement before Beveridge , and the politicians were prepared to slide over practical difficulties in implementing the policy — all that was required was a statement of principles . |
| 21 | She 'd put on a dress for lunch . |
| 22 | He puts in a word on behalf of debauchery because ‘ it 's an occupation of a sort ’ . |
| 23 | The opposition may put down a motion of censure on the Government at any time . |
| 24 | Charles moved back so that the porter could put down a tray with tea things on it . |
| 25 | Thorny puts down a saucer of tea with milk and sugar for the dog . |
| 26 | He put down a volume of Hume — he no longer read the daily papers , but was working through the world 's philosophers , from Plato onwards , and had now reached the Scottish humanists . |
| 27 | Annette put down a cup of tea and a glass of orange juice . |
| 28 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 29 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |
| 30 | The Labour Party had put down a vote of censure and there was much rumbling on the Tory backbenches . |