Example sentences of "had put [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth . |
| 2 | I woke again , I had to put on the light . |
| 3 | Because you had to put in the level plugs for them to keep the level and the centre lines to keep the centre . |
| 4 | It had to be proved that the papers had put into the public domain information which was not already there and which , in the context of the present case , it was in the public interest should not be there . |
| 5 | Here was the most loved owner in British racing , the most adored individual in British society , about to win the country 's greatest steeplechase — a fitting reward for all that she had put into the sport . |
| 6 | Perhaps unnerved by the suddenness of his summons to the Prime Minister and the vigour of Palmerston 's attack , Scott felt that his case had to be presented in a ‘ more consecutive manner ’ , and on 23rd July , 1859 , he wrote a long letter to Palmerston explaining how much effort he had put into the design and what a loss it would be to the country if it was not adopted . |
| 7 | Custom granted a tenant-at-will a full quarter 's notice and compensation for his crops and the work he had put into the farm if he went before the harvest was gathered in . |
| 8 | The Policy and Resources Committee on Friday considered the position that included a take , a potential take of fifty thousand for this Committee , and similar reductions from other committees , but which left the funding deficit problem of six hundred and seventy one thousand , and what the Policies and Resources Committee decided was to ask the committees , all committees to look at how this six hundred and seventy one thousand gap would be funded , and that that should include committees like ourselves which had already identified and had put into the guidelines for reduction , the full five percent reduction that had been requested to be identified early in the process . |
| 9 | The new wood that Kalchu had put on the fire earlier had n't caught yet and clouds of smoke were billowing out . |
| 10 | It is £100,000 more than the estimated cost the council had put on the work , and more than £32,000 more than the second highest bid . |
| 11 | It was n't until she had put on the kettle for their morning coffee that she spoke . |
| 12 | At the party afterwards Binkie Beaumont , far and away London 's biggest impresario ( he had put on The Druid 's Rest ) , asked the boy if he wanted to be a professional actor . |
| 13 | She stared at the doll which Nanny had put on the shelf , and the doll stared back at her with cold blue eyes . |
| 14 | It was as if he had put on the quality of maleness like a flamboyant cloak . |
| 15 | She smiled at Matt across the bowl of fruit he had put on the table , her perceptions heightened by the relaxed atmosphere of the evening , very much aware of the bloom on the grapes , the green of the apples , the soft fuzz on the peaches . |
| 16 | Juliet had put on the percolator earlier . |
| 17 | Someone had put on the stereo and music drifted from the sitting-room . |
| 18 | ‘ The licensing authority has therefore not asked for the CSM 's advice on it ’ , Clarke told Jack Ashley in a written answer to a question ( which we had put to the DHSS three week earlier ) . |
| 19 | As early as February 1920 Trotsky had put before the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party a plan to end grain requisitioning and replace it with a fixed tax in kind ; also to allow the peasants to sell their surpluses on the ( to be revived ) market . |
| 20 | The researchers infected cells with both the plasmid and the virus , and relied on similarities between the vaccinia genes in the virus itself and those they had put in the plasmid to ensure that occasionally , the two would recombine . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel better now , ’ said young Tilney to Toby , as the boys sat around eating supper — a potato pie that Mrs Garfitt had left for them , and which Toby had put in the oven . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , to put him out of his misery , ‘ you know that big skylight Sunil had put in the bathroom when the house was done up . ’ |