Example sentences of "and putting the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He swung the Bren gun round and putting the butt to his shoulder , he whispered , ‘ Right , Piper . |
| 2 | Several leading City investors had opposed the proposals to dismantle British Land by selling off the larger properties and putting the smaller ones into a newly formed group , New British Land . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , UMNO is using the tactics that come with experience : Malaysia 's prime minister , Dr Mahathir Mohamad , is ostracising the Kelantan chief minister and putting the squeeze on the state 's budget , two-fifths of which comes from the federal government . |
| 4 | At the other extreme , the NOP poll for the Independent on Sunday — giving Labour a three-point lead and putting the Liberal Democrats on only 17 per cent — would likewise result in a hung parliament , but this time one in which Labour would be the largest party with 317 seats , compared with the Tories ' 296 and the Liberal Democrats ' 14 . |
| 5 | He took the trouble to work on it further when it was given again the following season , eliminating the somewhat superfluous role of a pastor , for instance , and putting the women into soft shoes instead of point shoes so that the movement looked more natural . |
| 6 | The legislation , which is the first of its kind in the common-law world , was seen as clarifying and putting the law beyond doubt , rather than making new law . |
| 7 | Nails came unexpectedly and rescued him , hauling him up by the chin and putting the rail under his hand . |
| 8 | Do they understand that for years to come , our treasure is to be poured into maintaining round-the-clock , full-alert , protection of the airstrip works , at a time when we are seriously discussing the future of student loans , and putting the millstone of debt round the necks of our students in higher education ? |
| 9 | There is all the difference between keeping slim , well-groomed and well-dressed in order to look good at forty-five or fifty , and putting the same amount of effort into an attempt to put back the clock and have another crack at being twenty-five . |
| 10 | Generally top players cope with the fast , short delivery by moving back and across the crease or , as Graham Gooch , by standing his ground and putting the wight on the front foot so that the head is over the front knee . |
| 11 | As they began to gather the berries , eating the sweetest , darkest red ones , and putting the rest into their baskets to take home , the sun came out . |
| 12 | We wound sedately along the narrow , grass-verged roads of ‘ The Oval ’ council estate and glided through the town centre and five miles beyond , before reaching Ringinglow Road — long , isolated and Roman straight — and putting the car through its paces . |
| 13 | Without both , divide-and-rule tactics will open the way to ranking oppressions and putting the groups against each other . |
| 14 | ‘ What is n't ? ’ he asked , lifting the kettle , removing the hob plate and putting the kettle in its place . |
| 15 | Fred was in the kitchen tidying up and putting the freshly washed pots and pans in their proper places . |
| 16 | But in addition to great patience it does demand a little advance planning ; the business of adding the already garlic-flavoured and cooked but cooled wine to the cheese and eggs and putting the whole mixture together into the cooking pot is important . |
| 17 | And yet what was there to stop him walking down the hill that very morning and putting the question to Martha ? |
| 18 | Erecting and decorating an Xmas tree , a Christmas tree and putting the presents on . |
| 19 | The methods of excavation have to be extremely rigorous , and putting the finds into a dated sequence often relies heavily on individual judgement , although statistical techniques and computers are nowadays used to handle and control the data . |
| 20 | ‘ Here the contract of salvage was entered into in the Paracels and all the work of refloating and putting the vessel into a condition to be towed to Hong Kong and nearly all the tow , except for the last three miles , were completed beyond the territorial limits of Hong Kong and consequently I take the view that the profits must be said to arise outside of Hong Kong rather than inside . |
| 21 | You can easily change back from an improper fraction to a mixed number by dividing the denominator into the numerator and putting the remainder over the denominator . |
| 22 | We name triangles in a similar way to naming angles by simply giving letters to their vertices ( corners ) and putting the sign for a triangle " b " in front of the letters . |
| 23 | Within two years , the Divorce Reform and the Equal Pay Acts had been passed , banishing further remnants of Victorian morality and putting the ‘ private ’ at the cutting edge of reform . |
| 24 | His desperate girl , ox-eyed , perhaps twelve years old or perhaps thirty-five , waited outside the Customs Hall for him without leaving even to sleep , watching through the glass and crying softly and putting the damp balls of face tissue into a big plastic handbag that looked ugly and moving against her sari . |
| 25 | Floy remembered what Nuadu Airgetlam had said about the Robemaker taking sacrifice from the ordinary Irish people and putting the sons to work in the Dark Workshops and guessed that the people had simply lost heart . |
| 26 | Amy cast herself as The Maid and proceeded to rush around the house performing errands and putting the world to rights . |
| 27 | It 's no use looking at the date , 1 January 1994 , and putting the problem off until after Christmas . |
| 28 | Later in the morning , I deputise for the Head of Administrative Law in a compulsory competitive tendering meeting with the Director of Housing , officers from Corporate Standards and Management Services and the unions to discuss service level agreements and putting the cleaning of estates out to tender . |
| 29 | We were drinking out of glass tumblers with British Rail logos on and generally chewing the fat and putting the world to rights . |
| 30 | At the same time a wind blew briefly across the harbour , rippling the water and putting the gulls to squawking flight . |