Example sentences of "been put " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 2 | And now he has been put down , made to seem anti-Semitic , by a probable anti-Semite . |
| 3 | It is true that some local authorities will not say whether you are eligible or not until a place has been put on offer to you , but it 's still very much worth your while to find out all you can from your local education authority . |
| 4 | Therefore the pieces that have been put together in the following pages as possible audition selections are from writers who have gained , or are now gaining , a major place in contemporary theatre . |
| 5 | ( In this extract several pieces of Owen 's dialogue have been put together . ) |
| 6 | In recent years , photographs of newcomers to the profession have been put together in a volume expressly produced for that purpose , by Spotlight . |
| 7 | The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’ |
| 8 | Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly . |
| 9 | Our second meeting , once the regulative café au lait had been taken and a strenuous five hours of talk had been put behind us , was concluded by a guided tour of his beloved Montreal , whose night-time allurements were enthusiastically described in a car hired for the occasion , and concluded by a celebratory meal at one of his favourite Indian restaurants , toasting each other 's health and futures in an excellent Chablis . |
| 10 | After the object ( a toy car ) had been put at B , the boxes were locked ; with the result that most of the infants went straight to B , could not get in , and returned to A and tried to gain entry to a box which they could see ( whatever ‘ see ’ means here exactly ) was empty . |
| 11 | Some insurance companies offer small sum policies , with monthly or annual premiums , which may pay for the funeral when someone dies , however much has been put into the scheme . |
| 12 | So far it has not been put to the test in service . |
| 13 | Whether the pups had been put there in the hope they would be cared for , or just dumped , is not exactly known . |
| 14 | He says that it is a sad fact that many early RDS receivers failed to perform even basic tasks adequately , and many people have been put off RDS for life because of : ‘ experiences with receivers that performed inadequately and which failed to live up to the promises the broadcasters made for them ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ A motion has been put forward that the Polish United Workers ’ Party ( the Communist Party ) should … give the right to vote to all of its members . |
| 16 | The motion which has been put to the clubs , and backed by an emotive letter from the president , will be proposed by senior life member Ken Harris . |
| 17 | A dozy , family-run business which faced bankruptcy in 1985 , had been put to rights by the application of sound Thatcherite principles . |
| 18 | This year 1,073 motions have been put down , but only 18 of those will be debated , and , of those 18 , only two will be chosen by the conference itself . |
| 19 | Albert Dodd , a long-standing Ferranti director , has been put in charge of ISC and its subsidiaries including Marquardt , EMP , Datacom , Cardion Electronics and Laben and Elmer in Italy , with a view to bringing about closer integration . |
| 20 | Sara Calloway , of Women Against Rape , said the 18-year-old victim 's character had been put on trial and not the police officer 's . |
| 21 | Theories have been put forward that it had anything from 6 to 24 sides , and even that it may have been circular . |
| 22 | And finally , only a year or so later , turned them out of house and home — put them on the street , as women who failed to be properly grateful to the fathers had been put for centuries . |
| 23 | But his horizons were dramatically broadened when he joined British Steel and was asked by the late Lord Melchett , who was then chairman , to reorganise the fourteen widely dispersed companies that had been put into the same melting pot under the nationalisation programme . |
| 24 | But Finniston still harbours the belief that the wealth of experience he acquired during his ten years at British Steel could have been put to better service for the nation . |
| 25 | Her magnificent antique collection , which includes a 110-year-old Black Forest Clock , is very popular with other dedicated clockwatchers , and has even been put on display at Gloucester Museum . |
| 26 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |
| 27 | Although David Cecil was and always had been a devout Christian , he became the favourite candidate of those who resented the ‘ clerical candidate ’ , the man who had been put up by Lewis , just because he was a Christian . |
| 28 | She had her own flat , at Coleherne Court off the Old Brompton Road — bought with money that had been put into trust until her eighteenth birthday — which she shared with girlfriends . |
| 29 | As soon as the visits to the mental hospital had ended , he had been put on streptomycin and PAS , like several of the younger patients . |
| 30 | The Prudential , like all other financial institutions involved in films , had been put in a panic by revelations about the activities of Max Schach , one of several central Europeans renting space from Korda . |