Example sentences of "[was/were] to put [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 2 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 3 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 4 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 5 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 6 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |