Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] to put the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These costs include the re-filling of fire extinguishers or damage caused by the fire brigade to a building to enable them to put the fire out and would be covered under the fire section . |
| 2 | Prince Saud al-Feisal , the Foreign Minister , has been calling upon the MPs to urge them to put the future of their country before any factional ambitions . |
| 3 | If you go back to the time United Biscuits felt they had to close their Liverpool factory , the bishops up in Liverpool marched on Hector Laing and tried to persuade him to put the decision off . |
| 4 | Staff , learning of some intimate aspect of a prisoner 's life , perhaps from seeing a file or overhearing a chaplain or social worker discuss confidential information , would be expected to use it to put the prisoner down . |
| 5 | Probably the easiest way I can explain to you how athletics has changed since Eric Liddell won Olympic Gold in 1924 is to ask you to put the situation in a modern context . |
| 6 | But now her husband 's lawyers are asking the High Court to order her to put the children back on a plane to the United States . |
| 7 | In the eighties estate agents actually called on Jarvis at the School to beg him to put the place in their hands . |