Example sentences of "to put [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In those stations it is the management that has now refused to put through the emergency calls . |
| 2 | And the ones you brought into the yard to put through the scrapper , you cut the leaves off . |
| 3 | Oh no no just they were bringing the corn to put through the crusher . |
| 4 | In the run-up to such a referendum , do the Government really intend to put through the letterboxes of Britain 17 million textbooks entitled ’ Fixed Exchange Rates and the Economic Consequences of EMU , by John Major ’ ? |
| 5 | It is too easy then for children to put off the evil day when they have to get down to work . |
| 6 | It would have been easy for me just to put off the difficult decisions we need to take , but I must do what is right for this country . |
| 7 | Paul has just that transformation in mind when he tells the Ephesians to put off the old self , be made new in the attitudes of their minds , and then put on the new self , ‘ created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness ’ ( Eph. 4:20–4 ) . |
| 8 | As one tutor put it : ‘ The temptation to put off the evil day is irresistible for most people . |
| 9 | All of us have a tendency to put off the difficult tasks or those we dislike . |
| 10 | I hate doing it so much that I think I will find just one more excuse to put off the preaching . |
| 11 | And since the effect would be to put off the catastrophe indefinitely , since Capitalism could now continue by reason of policies which provided also a solution to the problem of unemployment , Empirical Socialism need no longer distinguish itself from the Marxist version solely by the method and pace of change , by being evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 12 | There 's always a strong temptation to put off the most difficult task or the least congenial subject . |
| 13 | It 's in their interests to put off the evil moment for as long as they can . |
| 14 | ‘ I want you to put off the library today , ’ she would say . |
| 15 | Its very length was designed to put off the rank and file member from reading it . |
| 16 | Instead , a store detective will look for suspicious actions and then try to put off the would-be thief by staring them out and making their presence felt . |
| 17 | I was trying to put off the evil moment . |
| 18 | He opened his lips , struggling to put off the pride and bitterness that held him mute ; but the slight rustle of the tapestry at the door spoke first , and eloquently , and when he looked up David was gone , leaving still silent on the air between them the name that was not to be spoken . |
| 19 | Forcing back the tears , she watched Dame Sybil take a warm stone from the fireplace to put between the sheets of the bed . |
| 20 | So like yourself , you 've got a daughter , who perhaps fifteen , twenty years ' time , will be getting married , at which point the policy could be surrendered to put towards the cost of the wedding . |
| 21 | But not as black as the mark that the ensuing conversation was to put against the producer 's name . |
| 22 | The second part of the theistic pattern sketched in the last chapter which we need to put under the microscope is that which described God both as personal and as impersonal . |
| 23 | The effect of these amalgamations , as far as this survey is concerned , has been to put onto the market what must be a large proportion of the original libraries . |
| 24 | Er that was the name of the manufacturer an you used to buy them on cards , they were all sizes and the big one you used to put onto the tips of your your er soles just in on the tips , to save the front of the shoe . |
| 25 | We shall be writing to you around August 1989 to check that the information that we intend to put onto the Register about you is correct . |
| 26 | A young child faced with a row of cups and a pile of saucers might have no other way of finding whether he has enough saucers to put with the cups than to match them as far as possible , one-to-one . |
| 27 | ‘ What about cards to put with the orders ? ’ she asked . |
| 28 | But it was another moment , another gift from life , to put with the others . |
| 29 | Does anybody make pinions which I can use to put into the transfer box to replace the existing ones ? |
| 30 | The practice of clipping below the gallery and throwing up the fleeces to a helper to put into the barn was followed here . |