Example sentences of "put his [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily , prospective purchasers of Guy Edwards ' Sponsorship and the World of Motor Racing ( Hazleton Publishing ) could recoup their outlay if they put his experience to good use . |
| 2 | He bared her breasts ; put his tongue to them as his hands went down to the belt of her skirt , to find that she 'd changed for the trip , and was wearing jeans . |
| 3 | According to Heseltine , ‘ virtually every colleague who attended the enlarged meeting and thus came fresh to the arguments supported me , despite the fact that Sir John Cuckney had been invited to put his views to the meeting ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ He has to put his proposals to the parties now , because he has made so many public comments about them that he has no other choice , ’ he said . |
| 5 | His left Achilles tendon became badly shortened , making it difficult for him to put his foot to the floor , and he had a strong positive supporting reaction in his foot . |
| 6 | If the matter is to be discussed with the miscreant partner at all he should be given a genuine opportunity to put his case to all the other partners . |
| 7 | No new offer was put at the meeting between management and the 25-strong shop stewards ' committee , called by Yarrow 's managing director and chief executive , Murray Easton , who wanted to put his case to the full committee . |
| 8 | Nor , said Thomas Gisborne in 1795 , must he himself disdain to borrow money at the appropriate moment if he is not to put his credit to real and serious hazard . |
| 9 | be under no illusions gentlemen that er Keith is under a lot of pressure to put his work to Birmingham and Glasgow , and not to York . |
| 10 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 11 | He wandered around for fifteen minutes examining the piping , whistling quietly to himself , stopping occasionally to put his ear to a joint , and then pulled a hammer out of his tool-bag and tapped smartly on one particular valve . |
| 12 | Now is the time for the golfer from Welwyn Garden City to put his nose to the grindstone once more . |
| 13 | Grandfather was a skilled painter and decorator , also able to put his hand to signwriting on occasion . |
| 14 | Sampson , however , insisted that Lewis should put his name to anything which was written , and in the course of 1939 he set to work . |
| 15 | well what in actual fact happened , it 's not easy to get Terry Wogan at a moments notice to come and sit down , what in actual fact happens is that we draw up exactly what it is , that , that he would be saying and what the answer will be , he sees that and it 's totally approved , understandably he 's not gon na put his name to anything that he does n't believe is , is correct and that is how it 's done and |
| 16 | Luke dropped his grip on her and turned to glance at the door , as if he intended to go and put his question to the man himself . |
| 17 | If he 'll only put his shoulder to the wheel . |
| 18 | Then he saw Lee put his finger to his lips . |
| 19 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |
| 20 | He 'd put his mind to it that he would n't , you know this he had it in mind that we were going to work for this thirty pound a week less , take it or leave it . |
| 21 | Well I do n't think and nobody will turn this you know this he nobody would , he 'd put his mind to something and there is nobody on earth that could turn him . |
| 22 | Owing to his illness he was able to study for only one term in the next three years , although he did put his convalescence to good use , adding fluency in French , German and Italian to his other accomplishments , and attending lectures of the French physicist Dominique Arago at the Sorbonne . |
| 23 | He 'd put his hand to the place , amazed to see it come away bloody . |
| 24 | I saw Holmes put his hand to his head . |
| 25 | ( The education of Dustin towards some understanding of feminism , even though mainly in theory rather than in practice , was only to come after his divorce , the making of Kramer vs Kramer and Tootsie , and marriage to a woman who did not put his ideas to the test . ) |
| 26 | Joe put his back to her and she got up and scrambled into the bed . |
| 27 | The stool upon which Jotan sat put his back to the sun , and his face was deep in shadow . |
| 28 | He hobbled upright and put his back to it . |
| 29 | ‘ Nevertheless , Adam 's a qualified lawyer , ’ Freddy said , ‘ yet he put his name to a prospectus which says that all material information has been disclosed — but does not mention a fifteen per cent stock option that I was n't told about . ’ |
| 30 | He had reportedly criticized the kingdom 's policies in his Friday prayer sermons , opposed the presence of US troops , and put his name to a collective letter by a group of Moslem clerics to the country 's supreme theologian , Sheikh Abdel-Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz , expressing opposition to the US-sponsored Middle East peace conference which had begun in Madrid in October 1991 . |