Example sentences of "putting a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carl is putting a dart into a Diana airgun ; he takes careful aim — then Bingo ! |
| 2 | A Bank Loan of £300 to £3,000 ’ or ‘ £200-£2,000 IN 7 DAYS ( Fast loans without security ) ’ ) including a proposal form which people can send without even having to bother about putting a stamp on their envelope , makes relatively costly finance company loans particularly accessible . |
| 3 | Putting a helping of mixture into each tray or cake case . |
| 4 | I kept a machine for a lady who was ‘ putting a cheque in the post ’ and told other callers that the machine was sold . |
| 5 | Sandhurst 's motto is ‘ Serve to Lead ’ , and putting a cadet under pressure is just one way of developing leadership qualities . |
| 6 | Putting a layer of polystyrene , either in tile or roll form , onto the ceiling of a room under a flat roof can help , but remember , not if this room is a kitchen . |
| 7 | Having a ‘ purge ’ on the cones in my cupboard I used an acrylic ‘ angora ’ type of yarn for the background ( putting a strand of sewing cotton with the yarn for the welts ) . |
| 8 | Incidentally , the idea of putting a compass in the seat recess with a seethrough window in the spraydeck is just plain daft ; apart from making you sick , looking down all the time would divert attention from where it matters , the sea . |
| 9 | You putting a reserve on ? ’ |
| 10 | Provide a simple bed in the kitchen , such as a cardboard box with one side cut down , to give easy access , and line this with old newspaper , putting a blanket on top . |
| 11 | It 's funny now , she said it as if she was you know under pressure , and she had to get up , I remember one night as if somebody was very quietly you know putting a blanket over me , that 's honest . |
| 12 | They 're on about putting a road round back of there . |
| 13 | It is likely to come about only as a consequence of a general election yielding a majority for no single party thus putting a minority party favouring change in a strong position to secure it as a price for joining or supporting another minority party in government . |
| 14 | ‘ There really is n't any point in shouting , ’ said Mildred , putting a pillow underneath the victim 's head . |
| 15 | The best of these was changing the punctuation in a sentence in your head , seeing how you might shift its meaning by putting a comma in different places . |
| 16 | putting a couple of scientists into a room and say , Find It . |
| 17 | It 'll be worth putting a couple of pavers on there just to cope with the track of the pa er the wheels going in . |
| 18 | The only problem is if you do n't happen to live near a port which has one of these hyperbaric er diving chambers then you 've problems that erm just putting a mask over the person and giving them oxygen that way is normally is n't enough . |
| 19 | He 's actually been out of his armchair today long enough to erm , spend ten minutes putting a washer on the hand basin in the loo . |
| 20 | As well as putting a ceiling on cases of average tetraplegia , the effect of the decision in Housecroft 's case has meant that awards in less serious cases have to bear a proportional relationship to the guideline figure for tetraplegia . |
| 21 | And they reckon what , what it , that 's all it 's going to be a three hour test I do n't agree with putting a child of that age through a test I mean there 's none of this nursery pick out who is slow on what , where , why and when , who 's good at something who 's , who 's not so good at it , erm apparently and er , put a seven year old through this exam , find out what they 're good at and what they 're not , well the teachers obviously are n't doing their jobs very well . |
| 22 | The main reasons are that putting a plan on paper helps an organization to decide what it wants to achieve , to communicate its ideas to others and to monitor future Performance . |
| 23 | Since I am perfectly fit myself I had to consider Miller 's tribulation with some care , for I am here putting a foot on to an unknown terrain — always an exhilarating experience for a writer . |
| 24 | The system ensures that those who might seem most deserving receive perhaps an Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) — or a British Empire Medal ( BEM ) for those ‘ who do not qualify by rank for the higher awards ’ — while a bureaucrat who has successfully worked his way to the top of the civil service without putting a foot wrong will get a knighthood in the Order of the Bath . |
| 25 | So western business people contemplating putting a foot in Eastern waters can often tap a ready source of advice in their local communications companies — one that speaks their own language , to boot . |
| 26 | Their prey is kept in a state of constant unease , afraid of putting a foot into a hidden trap . |
| 27 | ‘ If at least one young person decides to give up putting a foot into a stolen car ever again , then her son 's death will not have been in vain ; and another mother will not have to experience the heartbreak she is experiencing . |
| 28 | But within five minutes of her putting a foot on the pavement outside the large building she 'd found that she might as well be in a hot and steamy sauna bath . |
| 29 | Some people think that holding the wing down or putting a tyre on the wing will stop the glider blowing over . |
| 30 | If that promise had been promptly enforced — by putting a guard on the bridges over the Drina and Sava rivers , with aircraft to watch the roads that lead to the bridges — the size of the intervening soldiers ' task would have been sharply reduced . |