Example sentences of "[adv] put [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royal demesne vills , fields and woods in Sherwood Forest , for example , which had been put out of the forest by the perambulation of 1300 , were now ‘ entirely put back into the forests by the said King Edward ’ . |
| 2 | Swiss housewives rejected this appeal , apparently put off by the idea of being replaced in their homes by machines . |
| 3 | These , too , had been fated , Wexford 's broken by a pretty young woman who was helping him with his enquiries and Burden 's one day inadvertently put out with the rubbish . |
| 4 | As much put out by the ticket inspector 's attitude as his demand for money , he paid and duly wrote to BR to complain saying he ‘ could see no justification in the circumstances for the excess charge . ’ |
| 5 | If you are a purist , you may be somewhat put off by the lame , if not sticky English translations of words in Bach 's Cantatas Nos. 201 & 68 , but do n't be , for the exceeding purity of Dame ‘ Bella 's ’ voice overcomes all . |
| 6 | I had also discovered that I had not put in with the ‘ essential documents ’ a vital letter — the one which contained Kathy and Len 's address , so here I was arriving in Perth , knowing nobody and without an address to go to ! |
| 7 | Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children . |
| 8 | He is not put off by the prospect of a change in government . |
| 9 | The trouble with this way of dealing with the myth is that the myth is so attractive that people are not put off by the objection that it opens the door to scepticism about common meanings . |
| 10 | Could we not be told that after Wellesley 's magnificent Arabian charger , Diomed , left him by a brother officer killed in a squalid duel , was piked at Assaye he insisted he should be nursed back to fitness and not put down like the other wounded horses ? |
| 11 | To this end the CPL has won a little victory in its efforts to ensure that the cat is not put out with the milk bottles . |
| 12 | The minister was not put out by the note of impatience in Bertha Cohen 's voice . |
| 13 | Even a biscuit tin full of buttons and other odds and ends was finally put back in the pile of things to be kept because , as Granny said , ‘ You never know when they 'll come in handy . ’ |
| 14 | The fire was finally put out on the morning of 12 October . |
| 15 | Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth . |
| 16 | York 's a historic city of some hundred and four thousand people , covering some two thousand nine hundred hectares , but that city itself is only part of the settlement that I think we would all regard as as York itself , that covers a larger population of some a hundred and thirty five thousand people , er contained er within the York outer ring road , and referenced to the the map submitted with my H One submission , and also the greenbelt plan which we 've we 've just put up on the board there , er will show you the the broader extent of the urban area . |
| 17 | A sudden upsurge to 3,500 on Dec. 31-Jan. 1 was reportedly prompted by a rumour that the Greek authorities were going to seal the border , and on Jan. 2 a Greek government spokesman alleged that the rumour had been deliberately put about by the Albanian authorities in an attempt to rid the country of the Greek minority , which numbered nearly 59,000 according to the 1989 census . |
| 18 | In the past , a notice was usually put up in the local police station . |
| 19 | The Americans are also put out by the efforts of Russia 's foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , to rescue something from the apparent wreckage of the world 's peace efforts . |
| 20 | ‘ He was nearly put out of the race when he ran into the back of Clifton Charlie who had broken a leg and yet he would have caught Lochsong in another couple of strides . |
| 21 | On the whole , most of us lead very sedentary lives these days and are often put off by the thought of taking exercise . |
| 22 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 23 | For several years , Iraq simply put up with the situation . |
| 24 | I was n't put off by the fact that Jo had told me not to call or see her . |
| 25 | He was particularly put out by the absence of a telephone . |
| 26 | I was also rather put off by the fact I had inadvertently climbed to the summit of Cairn Gorm from the restaurant at the top of the chairlift one drizzly afternoon years ago . |
| 27 | We were most put out by the way they turned it down . ’ |
| 28 | She recalled that she had at the time been a little put out by the prince 's interest in Joan — but now the important thing was to persuade Joan to join in the festivities and bring her a first-hand report . |
| 29 | ‘ And I think Ahn may be more than a little put out by the idea . ’ |
| 30 | I really enjoyed the day , and I was a little put out by the articles I read in a couple of daily newspapers throughout the week , which criticised the tournament for staging what they called ‘ just a one-woman show ’ . |