Example sentences of "[vb past] put [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he said was very significant — that the ANC wanted to encourage any film-maker , black or white , who tried to put on the screen images of black people that were recognisably human , and who also tried to give employment and encouragement to black technicians . |
| 2 | Channel 4 and the sports management agency International Management Group moved to put on the match between the champion , Gary Kasparov , and the British challenger , Nigel Short . |
| 3 | At the start of the plenum hardline critics proposed putting on the agenda discussion of separating the post of general secretary from that of state President . |
| 4 | but when they came to put into the new concrete support cradles , they found on average there was 30 feet of peat on top of the bedrock , so it could easily have been done . |
| 5 | Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council |
| 6 | In the farmhouse he practised putting on the gaiters and found it a struggle . |
| 7 | And they were so carried away , they forgot to put on the handbrake . |
| 8 | They thought it was worth around £100,000 , until a valuation for council tax arrived putting in the highest band — band H — for properties worth more than £320,000 . |
| 9 | Counsel for the appellant sought to put to the victim that she had a number of previous convictions for dishonesty and violence . |
| 10 | ‘ John Major began to put across the right message on Europe , ’ the former Prime Minister said . |
| 11 | I saw how the well-documented material containing the truth about Fayed that we began to put before the DTI was received in embarrassed silence . |
| 12 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
| 13 | A search of this size is impossible with the printed OED , where you are restricted to just those quotations including " love " which the original editors decided to put into the entry for " love " . |
| 14 | Having selected the stratum needed to put across the USP , the other methods of communication used must be organised to complement the selected stratum . |
| 15 | Where once you were making a conscious effort to cast long and accurately and were aware of the amount of punch you needed to put into the strike , you will find that with experience you begin to do these things quite naturally . |
| 16 | Pump Court Chambers started putting on the seminars only last year and they now hold them every three or four months . |
| 17 | On Clarissa 's part , because she kept putting off the dreaded bread and butter telephone call , and that made her feel guilty and irritable . |
| 18 | Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth . |
| 19 | I woke again , I had to put on the light . |
| 20 | Because you had to put in the level plugs for them to keep the level and the centre lines to keep the centre . |
| 21 | It had to be proved that the papers had put into the public domain information which was not already there and which , in the context of the present case , it was in the public interest should not be there . |
| 22 | Here was the most loved owner in British racing , the most adored individual in British society , about to win the country 's greatest steeplechase — a fitting reward for all that she had put into the sport . |
| 23 | Perhaps unnerved by the suddenness of his summons to the Prime Minister and the vigour of Palmerston 's attack , Scott felt that his case had to be presented in a ‘ more consecutive manner ’ , and on 23rd July , 1859 , he wrote a long letter to Palmerston explaining how much effort he had put into the design and what a loss it would be to the country if it was not adopted . |
| 24 | Custom granted a tenant-at-will a full quarter 's notice and compensation for his crops and the work he had put into the farm if he went before the harvest was gathered in . |
| 25 | The Policy and Resources Committee on Friday considered the position that included a take , a potential take of fifty thousand for this Committee , and similar reductions from other committees , but which left the funding deficit problem of six hundred and seventy one thousand , and what the Policies and Resources Committee decided was to ask the committees , all committees to look at how this six hundred and seventy one thousand gap would be funded , and that that should include committees like ourselves which had already identified and had put into the guidelines for reduction , the full five percent reduction that had been requested to be identified early in the process . |
| 26 | The new wood that Kalchu had put on the fire earlier had n't caught yet and clouds of smoke were billowing out . |
| 27 | It is £100,000 more than the estimated cost the council had put on the work , and more than £32,000 more than the second highest bid . |
| 28 | It was n't until she had put on the kettle for their morning coffee that she spoke . |
| 29 | At the party afterwards Binkie Beaumont , far and away London 's biggest impresario ( he had put on The Druid 's Rest ) , asked the boy if he wanted to be a professional actor . |
| 30 | She stared at the doll which Nanny had put on the shelf , and the doll stared back at her with cold blue eyes . |