Example sentences of "was put up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband , who had put up with a great deal , and was to put up with much more , was not yet prepared to lose his marital rights . |
| 2 | During the sittings , he was always in good spirits ; and as long as you did not try to glimpse what he was putting up on the canvas , he would dilate on any subject that took his fancy . |
| 3 | Occasionally an innovative structure was put up without spires and gargoyles : Congregationalists in the Hertfordshire villages of Braughing and Puckeridge spent £1,275 not just in refitting the chapels and manse but in building an unsectarian village centre where the minister acted as warden . |
| 4 | The big second-hand machines and new boiler were stored in the vacated building and a two-storey building was put up with a canteen at the front and offices at the rear . |
| 5 | Her hair was put up with rhinestone forget-me-nots instead of diamanté ones and when her friend Mr Lewis says : ‘ might I divest you of your plastic mac ? ’ the whole process shut down for an hour or so whilst six fairly literate people racked their brains for a ‘ mac ’ substitute . |
| 6 | This was put up for vetting to a nominated superintendent whose instinctive response was to deny its submission , suggesting it ‘ looked as if it would be editorially unsuitable ’ . |
| 7 | Lincoln went into receivership and was put up for sale on 4 February , 1922 . |
| 8 | Two-thirds of AMI Healthcare was put up for auction this week after the company 's Los Angeles parent changed hands . |
| 9 | The business was put up for auction two months ago when Whitbread decided that its spirits operation , including brands such as Long John Scotch , Laphroaig malt whisky , Burrough 's mixed doubles and Beefeater gin , was too small to compete with the giants of the industry like Grand Metropolitan 's IDV , Guinness ' United Distillers and Allied-Lyons ' Hiram Walker Allied Vintners . |
| 10 | The company 's stay was fairly brief , for in 1908 operations ceased and the mill was put up for auction . |
| 11 | When Jeff Tyson was put up for the job of guitarist for Californian metal trio T-Ride the recommendation came from his ex-guitar teacher , Joe Satriani . |
| 12 | The club was put up for sale after the Kumar brothers ' business empire went into receivership last month . |
| 13 | The lease of Headington Hill Hall was put up for sale along with 32 other properties in January by receivers , Grant Thornton , and has attracted several bids . |
| 14 | Bob Hoover 's North American P-51D Old Yeller was put up for action , but with a $1 million reserve Hoover gets to fly it for another year . |
| 15 | He was put up for sale before the start of this season . |
| 16 | Painted in the Company 's all yellow colour scheme and registered as SE–BRD , the Firefly flew with the Swedish company for thirteen years until being declared redundant , whereupon the aircraft was put up for disposal along with three other Mk 1s . |
| 17 | The loss-making Observer , the world 's oldest Sunday newspaper , was put up for sale by Lonrho , its owners . |
| 18 | Fisons ' horticulture division was put up for sale in April . |
| 19 | Simpson is the second player to leave the Manor Ground since the club was put up for sale eleven weeks ago . |
| 20 | Just days after the Ardtullagh mansion was put up for sale , at least a dozen prospective buyers have given its 13 rooms the once-over . |
| 21 | It was put up for £2.20 a square foot . |
| 22 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 23 | And also any alterations or recommendations for the national agreement the case was put up for the delegates . |
| 24 | This was first suspected in 1878 , when a row of electric lights was put up at a hotel in New York . |
| 25 | So secure was this control , I was told , that if a monkey in a red jacket was put up as a candidate it would be elected . |
| 26 | This was put up to £50 in 1813 — peanuts to Miss Grove , a formidable spinster who had inherited £10,000 from her father when she was twelve . |
| 27 | I cos I ca n't picture another stone you know on any other roadsides and I 've been on plenty that and I travel and no and I can never know of another st stone that was put up to a tramp . |
| 28 | A sign was put up in order to remind staff whenever I was on duty . |
| 29 | I drove down the afternoon before and was put up in a small hotel near the studios . |
| 30 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |