Example sentences of "put [pers pn] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 2 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 3 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 4 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 5 | London local authorities had delayed hearing petitioners ' cases and put them to considerable inconvenience . |
| 6 | Mike Woodhead studied soil-science in Holland and put it to good use when he purchased his wine estate . |
| 7 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
| 8 | On balance , the GDR , Hungary and Bulgaria have shown themselves able to absorb Western technology and put it to effective use ; but Romania and , more conspicuously , Poland , have combined high levels of dependency with ill-conceived investment decisions and the worst adaptation problems of the kind discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 9 | But even if we 're not involved directly , I mean are you saying then that we perhaps put it to one side , it 's happening somewhere else ? |
| 10 | I ca n't agree a solution with our officers that is acceptable to the residents I represent and I put it to this council to try and get something done about it and all I get from the chairman of the committee is the officer 's comments pushed back down my throat . |
| 11 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 12 | I 'm sorry to put you to any inconvenience , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I do n't want to put you to any bother . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 've been so kind to me that I do n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 16 | I would n't wish to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 17 | I would n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 18 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 19 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 21 | But in today 's lean property market , homebuyers could start putting them to good use . |
| 22 | Response has been excellent and we are putting them to good use — please keep them coming ! |
| 23 | So natural had this practice become that only in the past fifteen or twenty years has there grown up in Britain the idea of conserving redundant industrial and commercial buildings and putting them to new uses . |
| 24 | Putting them to one side from the ordinary trainee where you could expect jobs and N V Q's to be the outcome , and for them to be treated as a special case . |
| 25 | Therefore a study of the types of question is a useful preparation point : Types of Question Question type Explanation ( 1 ) A data recall question requires the pupil to remember facts without putting them to any use , e.g. " When was the Battle of Hastings ? " ( 2 ) A naming question asks the pupil to name something without showing how it relates to the historical situation , e.g. " What are the men in the picture wearing ? " |
| 26 | All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year . |
| 27 | If their historical interest had saved them from the pick , the swinging steel ball , and the bulldozer , their intractable lay-out had discouraged renovators who might have put them to some use . |
| 28 | Otherwise those disgusting SS bitches will put you to that machine again . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I could n't put you to that trouble . |
| 30 | The thing is June if it puts you to some inconvenience then do n't it ? |