Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to put a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After one terrible shelling early in the battle when human entrails were to be seen dangling in the branches of a tree and a ‘ torso , without head , without arms , without legs , stuck to the trunk of a tree , flattened and opened , ’ Dubrulle recalls ‘ how I implored God to put an end to these indignities . |
| 2 | He would take steps to put a stop to it : write to his father , to Uncle Cent at Princenhage . |
| 3 | But although I scarcely , if ever , thought about sex , I wallowed in thoughts of death , utilising them , rather than death itself , to bear or deny my increasing depression instead of taking steps to put an end to it . |
| 4 | Then , however , in August 1968 , détente stalled as Soviet tanks , emulating the Hungary operation of 1956 , invaded Czechoslovakia to put an end to the liberalising government of Alexander Dubcek . |
| 5 | Already , in November , de Gaulle had had to threaten resignation to put an end to Communist demands for certain key cabinet posts . |