Example sentences of "put out the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If you put out the candle you were finished .
2 You put out the word and it would n't have been long before you knew Vecchi was out of sight .
3 This is the way the young sharedealers feel as they put out the bait and hook in the mugs .
4 It just says that we have to make the the call for nominations so long before we put out the selection ballot .
5 Put out the lamp and wait here . ’
6 They put out the food and the flags , turned round , and went north .
7 Put out the light !
8 Breeze read this through three times , and then put out the light .
9 I put out the light , climbed out of the window and pushed it to .
10 as I put out the fire with … whatever you like !
11 Put out the fire and the Gruncher dies in five seconds .
12 Barnard Castle fire crews put out the fire .
13 Perhaps use the first names and put out the meaning of the first names of the
14 They put out the blaze and cared for Sam until Hobley returned .
15 You knew everyone who went to work in the early morning — the chappie who came round on his bike and rod to put out the gas lamps or to light them .
16 Time now to put out the stuff from the back of the shelves , holding back the normal fare until everyone is back on the treadmill again .
17 Staff managed to put out the blaze before firemen arrived .
18 And officers had to call in the fire brigade to put out the blaze .
19 The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’
20 They were told to stay in their homes as emergency services launched a huge operation to put out the blaze and contain a cloud of smoke and fumes that threatened to spread across the Cheshire countryside .
21 All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air .
22 Well I think it 's er down to the competitive tendering process where the County Council has had to put out the cleaning contracts for schools to tender .
23 The federal government has spent $2–8 million drilling 1635 holes , injecting 122 556 tons of fly ash , and flushing 117 220 yards of sand into the burning tunnels in an attempt to put out the fire .
24 A spokesman said ‘ The children tried to put out the fire but to no avail .
25 There is an art to the task ; it is possible , otherwise , to put out the fire by smothering it with too much fuel , or even to poke it up too hard so that the last embers blaze up and the fire dies .
26 Held : A person who negligently starts a fire is liable for injuries suffered by a fireman while attempting to put out the fire , regardless of whether the particular injuries suffered by the fireman were reasonably foreseeable or whether the injuries were suffered as the result of exceptional or merely ordinary risks undertaken by the fireman .
27 He threw himself almost sideways through the gap , rolling across the ground as much to put out the fire that was burning him as to lessen the momentum of the fall .
28 There would be a lot of smoke and flames , and the pilot would try to put out the fire with his flying gloves , but they just were n't up to it ; and while he was coping with this emergency , the plane would start to dive and spin .
29 After a while , two soldiers in khaki ponchos came up the hill and asked us somewhat apologetically to put out the fire .
30 The firemen who came to put out the fire had a narrow escape when the roof fell in as they were working inside the building .
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