Example sentences of "put [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Others who put off the evil day may find it helps to book a weekend away together so that there is time to talk and listen to each other and sort matters out .
2 It certainly put off the previous incumbants and could be the one snag for any new applicants .
3 It put off the facing of her ghosts , but it gave her conscience some respite .
4 Actually , this time it was two shots : first poor old Doug 's missed putt and then the shot Nicklaus put through the green on the 18th in the playoff .
5 The hon. Member for Wolverhampton , South-West contrasted that with what was done by the great reforming Government of 1945 , who put through the House a huge weight of measures .
6 When the sun played on her golden hair it was as bright as the copper warming pan which Sarah put between the sheets on winter nights .
7 2 The current Craft Council exhibition , Put of the Frame , brought to mind this ambivalence ; it also stirred memories of an earlier exhibition …
8 Then one would no more require moral standards than that ‘ Vengeance is mine , I will repay ’ which Tolstoy put under the title of Anna Karenina .
9 Mr Brandt , who was mayor of West Berlin 28 years ago when East Berlin put up the Wall and who stood next to Mr Kennedy during his famous speech , said the barbed wire and wall were ‘ against the flow of history ’ , but added that it should remain as an ‘ an historical monstrosity ’ .
10 The expectations of the two parties may be very different , as may be the amount of time and effort they each put into the deal .
11 Dana read a group of modern Americans , which must have annoyed the British , starting with Elizabeth Bishop 's ‘ The Fish ’ — I can still hear his voice , the faint American accent and the hushed astonishment he put into the first line : ‘ I caught a tremendous fish … . ’
12 So the first question is , how much ’ dust ’ did El Chichón put into the stratosphere ?
13 One interpretation of the intermittent energy which Joseph Sturge put into the free produce movement in the 1840s is that it constituted an attempt by a Friend who had launched out into public and even political life to maintain links with more traditionally quietist brethren who none the less looked for greater perfection in the world .
14 The indications are that throughout his time as chairman Howson put into the factory a good deal of family money ( his wife was wealthy by inheritance ) .
15 I know that some colleagues are aware of this but sadly recently passed away and I must by the colleagues in the Midland and East Coast region er to thank everybody who put into the er the collection on behalf of the .
16 For example , Hambledon scores much higher on the sparsity valuation , and sparsity was one of the factors that we took into account and put into the process precisely because the Association of District Councils thought that it was a relevant factor .
17 Quite intuitively , he told me : ‘ Had he stuck to what he originally put into the part , he would probably have had a totally different career over the next twenty years or so .
18 ‘ They did n't suffer , ’ put in the young policewoman quickly .
19 ‘ Not at all , ’ put in the Prime Minister , reassuringly .
20 Justice put in the dock over miscarriages
21 ‘ Not yet , ’ put in the thin man , ‘ but they will be by the time we 're back there .
22 ‘ Holidaying ? ’ put in the thin man .
23 ‘ Please , maman , ’ put in the prince in his most wheedling tone .
24 Asshe must have known , when he put in the advertisement , that it would terminate Paul 's employment , make them beggars , for Dinah also had lost her place .
25 I opened the abdomen and put in the remainder of the powders …
26 ‘ Have you seen the old sandook Um Yusef put in the entrance ?
27 ‘ He 's right , ’ put in the fourth .
28 ‘ I 'll tell you why , ’ put in the admiral .
29 In the kitchen , she opened the freezer and found a Chicken Kiev for two , which she put in the microwave to defrost .
30 China is thus reluctant to see it put in the dock .
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