Example sentences of "put [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Major Patti he stated ( in excellent English ) , ‘ I put in fifteen years of service to the Party and I believe I paid my debt . |
| 2 | On the whole , people use language in a , in a rather sloppy form , it 's ambiguous , they , they know what they mean , other people know what they mean but they put in all sorts of inferences by the way in which it 's phrased or erm the way in which the words string together or past experience of the person . |
| 3 | And that is why you have to ensure that whatever elements you put in initial-clause position in your target text or in a given part of your target text add up to something that can be understood as a method of development and that can provide a point of orientation for that part of the text . |
| 4 | Does the Minister accept that , as there are now 50 different definitions of a professional engineer , it is unrealistic for the Minister 's Department to tell Newcastle council , which put in two bids for technology schools , that it should have submitted only one . |
| 5 | I put in two gallons on Saturday , and I can tell you for a fact there 's at least quarter of a gallon left . |
| 6 | We put in real money into this area . |
| 7 | I put on five pounds at Torremolinos one year and he went on and on about it . |
| 8 | Because on summer nights , we put on spectacular pageants at châteaux like Le Lude and le Puy du Fou . |
| 9 | And er the fire was underneath this you see in a little grate and you used to open the door and stoke it up and er more often than not it was fired by slack , which was a residue of the coal out of the coal house , you know when you broke your coal up with the lumps the the little sl bits of slack they were all put on one side for the copper fire . |
| 10 | Er when we last did the work there in nineteen eighty nine he 'd , he 'd provided Gwyneth with three machines which they moved round and put on different places for us . |
| 11 | ‘ I put on twenty-three pounds in the past two months . |
| 12 | It 's not Edward King , the man who was actually drowned and whom , as it happens , Milton hardly knew , it 's Lucidas , the figure of the young poet , priest , put to some extent on a classical model that he is writing about . |
| 13 | He , like many of his critics and followers , failed to see that the claims for a new scientific conceptualization rest not only on the ‘ facts ’ they are concerned to put into some kind of order , but also on the capacity of the new theoretical framework to bring out connections between what , until the new framework is used , appear as unconnected bits and pieces of information . |
| 14 | In 1985 dredgers were busily raking up gravel from the shoals in the river to put into more gabions for bank reinforcement beside the Trannon . |
| 15 | He was fired for serious misconduct when he continued to put in extra hours despite an overtime ban and after bosses at the NCP pound in central London alleged that time sheets had been altered . |
| 16 | After Arnold , they were still bearpits , but with the bears required to put in compulsory attendance at chapel . |
| 17 | The famous TV-am sofa is to go to the Museum Of The Moving Image on London 's South Bank , but staff and contributors have been invited to put in sealed bids for everything else . |
| 18 | The only way of addressing that differently , if indeed the guideline is strictly applied , and you 're required to identify no more than a net increase of six hundred and forty thousand in ninety five , six , the second year of this programme , then you would have to put in additional line of further savings as yet to be identified . |
| 19 | You have to put in all sorts of different sounds . |
| 20 | Instead , AHAs would be expected to put in appropriate bids for development . |
| 21 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 22 | In the end , EGBT were willing to put in more money for a more environmentally-friendly mode of working , and we agreed that the planings would be off-loaded at the end of the path , and then ferried in on dumper trucks . |
| 23 | If that did happen , should we try to intervene , should we offer to put in some sort of peace-keeping force or should we just leave them to it ? |
| 24 | And it 's considered th that they would be able to put in larger orders by buying in bulk . |
| 25 | You want some extraordinary words to put in this dictionary like that |
| 26 | As an extension to the social facilities , the Union uses the Main Hall of the University to put on big-band events with well-known groups from both the local and international scenes . |
| 27 | As an extension to the social facilities , the Union uses the Main Hall of the University to put on big-band events with well-known groups from both the local and international scenes . |
| 28 | ‘ You need n't bother to put on that act with me , ’ Silas rasped at her . |
| 29 | The Republic blitzed us , but it will be difficult for them to put on that type of performance in Italy . ’ |
| 30 | On the criteria we 've been talking about today , so find yourself a partner that you have n't worked with today somebody erm if you go in the same group that Kathy 's in because then if it comes up to four o'clock Kathy wants to go then you can be the other partner you 've got half an hour to put on one sheet of paper clearly and concisely what we 've done on communications . |