Example sentences of "put [pron] [adv] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put them away for life we hope . |
| 2 | ‘ Put him down for x-ray , Sister , and we 'll see . ’ |
| 3 | , love , put it away for god 's sake , aye . |
| 4 | He specialises in the period between 1500 and 1675 and is also keen on art : last year he bought a Van Dyck from Althorp when the Spencers put it up for sale . |
| 5 | However , if staff led by a head and one or two senior colleagues worked their way through these tasks ( and it might be more likely that senior staff themselves would have drafted the audit and put it forward for discussion , alteration and approval by others ) , they would be familiar with most of the important issues concerning the national curriculum . |
| 6 | He says all they did was just put it in for storage and then wait for the police to call but the first he heard was on Monday . |
| 7 | Ow that 's sharp , put it in there now please , put it in for mummy |
| 8 | While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election . |
| 9 | They are self selecting , and what we 've got to puncture is not the erm idea that the best goes forward , which is what you 're suggesting , erm but the idea of this self-selecting bit , it 's quite true that it tends to be men who put themselves forward for selection and election , and women do n't . |
| 10 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If you have pictures whose past is confused , or questioned , or whose title and ownership are a matter of dispute , the one way to settle this is to put it up for auction and see what happens . |
| 12 | I have n't bothered to put myself down for tutorial or shall |
| 13 | The surveys were conducted in the context of a perceived need to encourage able people to put themselves forward for election . |
| 14 | What did you put me down for accent ? |
| 15 | I 'll put them up for auction . ’ |
| 16 | We have come all this way to take part in a major game , not put ourselves up for auction . ’ |
| 17 | Rodney said , ‘ We 've put you down for dinner , seeing as you chickened out again last night . ’ |
| 18 | If it is your first work of fiction of any great length , I think you are doing the right thing putting it forward for appraisal by the Eastern Arts Board , you are lucky in your part of the country to have this . |
| 19 | Its sudden reappearance , a product of the uncertain economic times in Eastern Europe , at first seemed easily explained , but whether it was wartime booty or a token of gratitude , whether a museum who may or may not have owned it wanted it back or not , whether it was legally correct or amoral , by putting it up for auction ( and illustrating it on the catalogue cover ) Sotheby 's assured themselves of one thing : whatever they did would be wrong . |
| 20 | Present owners British & Commonwealth announced that it hoped to raise an estimated £130 million by putting it up for sale . |
| 21 | In 1991 , the village pub was threatened with closure when the brewery put it up for sale . |
| 22 | Felix Lark has put his up for sale , after all . |
| 23 | I mean he would of put it up for sale knowing that you wanted to get somewhere between you , knowing that the house market is as it is |
| 24 | He ca n't have put it there for effect because he did n't know who was going to be there . |
| 25 | But it is publicly acknowledged that these numbers , which represent people who have put themselves forward for testing , are underestimates . |
| 26 | Before putting themselves forward for selection , potential candidates and their families need to be aware of the foreign country 's environment — for instance its language(s) , climate and culture , its housing and education facilities , what security is like , and where they will be living and working . |
| 27 | Constantly putting yourself up for rejection just because you 're grown-up now wo n't help your self-esteem . |
| 28 | Prior to 1980 , only thirty-one non-cognate candidates in total put themselves forward for examination , but in the period 1980–4 , eighty have gained membership , following the special examination route devised for them . |
| 29 | I find that people tend to not put themselves down for training courses . |