Example sentences of "put the " in BNC.
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| 1 | FACTSHEET PUT THE FUN BACK IN FUNDRAISING ! |
| 2 | Gertrude Stein later wrote a book on Picasso , in which she put the point like this : |
| 3 | A committee of the Irish Medical Association put the numbers of women using the contraceptive pill in 1978 as 48,000 ; and the Family planning Association saw 30,000 people in 1976 and more than 53,000in 1978 ( Whyte 1980 : 403–4 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ She put the old kite right down in the middle of the fairway . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , he went out , put the ladder against the wall briefly to leave traces , threw a bit of mud through the window , and the key , and scattered more mud around the rose bed . |
| 6 | What do you mean by us being set in our ways ? ’ he asked , the tone of his voice changing when he put the question . |
| 7 | He put the newspaper to one side , then added : ‘ Sit down , take the weight off your feet . ’ |
| 8 | If there is no suitable spot indoors , put the bowls in the garden and cover with 6in of peat or a peat substitute such as cocofibre , excluding rain with polythene sheeting if the bowls have no drainage holes . |
| 9 | Was shaking , in fact , as she put the pages on the table between them . |
| 10 | But late night Jay tore into the poem , words flowing like wine from an oak cask , and — what the hell ? — redeemed by the dawn spring of Lucy 's eyes , she put the poem in an envelope , avoided Francis 's deep meaningful questions : this love had no confidantes , not even one as well known and sweet as he . |
| 11 | He put the platter on the floor and got up stiffly . |
| 12 | He omitted , as he was wont to do , his middle name , Norman ; he put the present year down for his date of birth , not 1934 ; and instead of entering ‘ Canadian ’ for his parents ' and his own nationality , he entered ‘ Jewish ’ . |
| 13 | He shivered ; he put the central heating on ‘ constant ’ ; he went round the corner for a bottle of whisky . |
| 14 | Gillian took a sip of wine , put the glass down on the table in front of her on top of the brochure from the dating agency , slipped off her shoes and curled her feet up under her on the sofa . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got a dead white face , staring black eyes , stringy hair and I need a shave , ’ she announced in a rush , put the phone down and collapsed into gales of laughter . |
| 16 | The work of Hubel and Wiesel , in particular , put the conception of neurones as ‘ feature detectors ’ , rather than simply energy detectors , on the map , supporting the idea that for each cell in the cortex there was a specific pattern of excitation that would reliably excite it . |
| 17 | When she put the fish fingers and oven chips in front of Colm — his favourites , he almost smiled at her . |
| 18 | The method of preparing the blank before inserting the cutlery blank is simply to drill and clean out the hole in the shaft before fixing , put the Special T on the tang and insert with the handle on top so the Special T does not run down the wood . |
| 19 | Hacker put the match beyond doubt two minutes after the interval with his second strike , although Jeremy Fry in the Welsh goal was called upon to make two smart saves before , in the last minute , Mark Lewis , one of only two home-based Welsh players in the side , sent Antony Colclough away for the final goal . |
| 20 | Environmental organisations , however , put the emphasis elsewhere . |
| 21 | I do n't think there is any reason to feel obliged to people who put the capital in . |
| 22 | The City put the shares up 4p to 565p , but that seems to have been largely on the basis of the optimistic tone of the statement and the general state of the market than from any in-depth analysis of the figures . |
| 23 | First , Mrs Thatcher has , through policies of liberalisation , put the economy on a footing similar to the more efficient continental economies . |
| 24 | He flew to the Royal Naval Air Station at Yeovilton , but damage to the wing meant he was unable to land , so he flew to open sea , put the plane in a nosedive and ejected . |
| 25 | BRITAIN delivered its third significant blow in two days to the world champions , Pakistan , when Mark Maclean put the seventh-seeded Umar Hayat Khan out of the World Open here yesterday , and became the first Scotsman ever to reach the quarter-finals . |
| 26 | Little hard news has come out of the world 's biggest advertising group since it put the division on the block . |
| 27 | The captain , Phil Carrick , last month put the cat among the pigeons , or his head upon the block ( depending upon each Yorkshireman 's point of view on his county 's cricket , without which no Tyke is properly dressed ) by writing a letter , with his players ' support , in which he advocated the abandonment of the holy writ , the birth qualification . |
| 28 | MICKY STEWART , the England manager , gave his son , Alec , a gruelling introduction to cricket on the Indian sub-continent when he put the Surrey wicketkeeper-batsmen — along with the rest of the 14-man England squad - through a three-and-a-half hour training session in temperatures of up to 100F at the National Stadium in Delhi yesterday . |
| 29 | THE latest interest rate rise put the dampners on the housebuilding sector . |
| 30 | Market estimates for yesterday 's intervention put the Bank 's purchases of pounds as high as $500m , and there were indications that the authorities may have intervened to a similar extent the day before , when sterling fell almost 6 pfennigs . |