Example sentences of "to put some [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Obviously a longer , longer lead in on that , erm , and , and the county would , clearly need to put some funding into the development to ensure that those er , those satellite businesses operate , and only when you fund those out of the rural economic development 's initiative , but it seems to me to be important that we should ensure that businesses operating in the rural parts of the county have equal access to the facilities of business link and business advice .
2 Ask him to put some water in a bowl , and you can bring it into the scullery .
3 He wants that , yo , he wants you to put some water in that for a test , some of your water in that
4 So you have to put some water in there , yeah ?
5 She wanted to put some money in trust for her children , so she followed Wright 's advice to invest in Equity & Law bonds .
6 The fact that these values were linked with a conspicuous material investment in the library premises clearly corresponded to one criterion which the Coordinating Team took into account ; namely , that a school is not only interested in developing heuristic pedagogies but also willing to put some money and energy into the library as the appropriate central facility .
7 I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies .
8 We wish to put some money abroad , in England .
9 Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree .
10 things , between the mothers and that , so I 've got an advertising board , you know and , and if they wanted to get , to put some money in the pot or whatever
11 Brave words , but Horgan will be able to put some distance between himself and the pitch .
12 On page 215 he does , however , to put some distance between himself and the racist overtones of this tradition : ‘ But what was the mysterious magic by which the Germans breathed new life into a dying Europe ?
13 The board has , however , bowed to EC and government pressure to put some distance between itself and its commercial wing , Scottish Pride .
14 But two new devices now available mean they will soon be able to put some distance between them and the chemical .
15 We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting .
16 Even as she said it , she recognised what she was doing — attempting to put some distance between them by drawing in her daughter , as a shield .
17 Purposefully , she moved away from him , determined to put some distance between them .
18 She pushed at his chest to put some distance between them , pulling together the edges of her blouse with fingers that trembled .
19 Utterly dismayed , she wriggled forward a little , trying to put some distance between them .
20 So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them .
21 More important to me was the need to obey this instinct that warned me to put some distance between us . ’
22 If you see the caterpillars crawling around on the bottom of the cage , you will know it is time to put some soil there .
23 Asked why he had changed tack in his purchasing , Mr Mason , his dealer , said : ‘ Mr Lloyd Webber has made his money in Britain in the last decade , and he wants to put some back to save the finest of Canaletto 's London views . ’
24 It was definitely time to put some space between them .
25 ‘ So you 've learnt something , have n't you ? ’ she retorted , daring to put some spice into it , since she felt somewhat persecuted by his teasing manner .
26 I 'm just putting these things in your mind to put some doubt in your mind .
27 And now ’ — he made a gesture that cleared the air around them of all such trivia — ‘ I want to show you a machine that 's going to put some spirit into my work this summer .
28 so he took some bread down and then popped up to the gate where they these were sort of quite a way a way , and Gemma said you wait there with Jane and I 'll invite those people to come up , you see and erm , I 've got ta be a bit cool , went to the table to put some bread there course it an awful and she
29 It 's a normal thing to do , to teach your children everything from the time they 're born , so to put some kind of arbitrary division on where you stop helping is nonsense to the child and it 's , it 's absurd to parents , too , and of course it does n't happen .
30 I told you to put some orange in there .
  Next page