Example sentences of "put [prep] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , I put of starting this essay until five minutes ago . |
| 2 | The freeholder refused to put in writing any guarantee , such as that no comprehensive redevelopment of the site was planned . |
| 3 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 4 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 5 | But , assuming that the formal external information resource does have a significant role to play in helping corporations to achieve viable strategies , the overwhelming message for information providers is that much more effort needs to be put into making that resource — whether in traditional print or in online form — more comprehensible in its overall structure , and easier to access and use in its individual parts , by the non-specialist user . |
| 6 | If ‘ higher authorities ’ are prohibiting the changes you want , or starving you of resources to carry them out , then life is made even more difficult and frustrating , and energy has to be put into challenging these constraints and/or finding ways round them . |
| 7 | Sam was put on scutching that morning with Todger . |