Example sentences of "to put [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He departed again and , after a moment 's thought , I went into the office to put through a call to Doone 's police station . |
| 2 | When they had gone , Cramer used the phone in the garage to put through a call to Sir Harry Marriott at his home and give him the news — the phone was more secure than a police radio band . |
| 3 | After about ten minutes of deliberation , Fabia could plainly see that there was only one place to start , and that was to put through a call to Lubor in the hope that Ven had phoned him too last night . |
| 4 | Erm , there is a very small chance that he 's going to say , all the time that I was on , on top of Everest , er , I was thinking about you , because I 've heard you 're the best thing since sliced wholemeal bread , I have three thousand people that I want to put through a programme in the next six weeks . |
| 5 | ‘ In those stations it is the management that has now refused to put through the emergency calls . |
| 6 | And the ones you brought into the yard to put through the scrapper , you cut the leaves off . |
| 7 | Oh no no just they were bringing the corn to put through the crusher . |
| 8 | 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 ’ ? |
| 9 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 10 | Environmental Minister , Nicholas Ridley , has forced Councillors to put off a decision over the building of a controversial holiday village in his own constituency . |
| 11 | It is too easy then for children to put off the evil day when they have to get down to work . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | As one tutor put it : ‘ The temptation to put off the evil day is irresistible for most people . |
| 15 | All of us have a tendency to put off the difficult tasks or those we dislike . |
| 16 | I hate doing it so much that I think I will find just one more excuse to put off the preaching . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There 's always a strong temptation to put off the most difficult task or the least congenial subject . |
| 19 | It 's in their interests to put off the evil moment for as long as they can . |
| 20 | ‘ I want you to put off the library today , ’ she would say . |
| 21 | Its very length was designed to put off the rank and file member from reading it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I was trying to put off the evil moment . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Forcing back the tears , she watched Dame Sybil take a warm stone from the fireplace to put between the sheets of the bed . |
| 26 | The Cleveland Rotofac Trust has received £500 from Middlesbrough Council 's Community Chest to put towards a cruiser to take the disabled on trips on local waterways . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But not as black as the mark that the ensuing conversation was to put against the producer 's name . |
| 29 | an electro cardiograph , it 's a tracing of the electrical il impulses from the heart given off by the heart and this chap came in he 'd never had one before and he was nervous anyway , so I 'm trying to put him at his ease and I , I put , you have to put like a rubber band round their arms and legs and attach erm electrodes to them , you do n't feel anything , you 're only measuring the electrical impulses given off by the heart |
| 30 | 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 . |