Example sentences of "put down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob 's put down for the Wednesday and the Thursday off , so it 's the Tuesday and the Friday I 'm stuck on the second week |
| 2 | You may laugh , but already deposits worth £30,000 have been put down for the book and at least 5,000 people have telephoned bookshops to express an interest . |
| 3 | Their victory can also be put down to the lack of a co-ordinated attack by the Whites . |
| 4 | The arrival in the town of what was described as ‘ massive police reinforcements ’ was put down to the possibility of demonstrations by blacks against Wullie Robertson 's Young Conservatives . |
| 5 | But after the first year , everyone who came below twentieth in the class was put down to the B stream . |
| 6 | Much of the credit for Mansell 's success has been put down to the sophistication and reliability of the Didcot developed Williams car . |
| 7 | She hoped the hectic flush would be put down to the exertion of bending nearly double . |
| 8 | He says we were told one of them was very badly deformed — but we were never told why — I wondered if that was put down to the tests . |
| 9 | It can only be put down to the ravages of drink ’ . |
| 10 | In the beginning , all carp were streamlined , torpedo-shaped fish , and any variation in girth relative to length ( apart from the difference between mature males and females ) could be put down to the quality of the food supply . |
| 11 | Even in the western Ukraine , far away from Chernobyl , headaches and sleeping troubles are put down to the disaster . |
| 12 | The change was put down to the fact that , since the act was only brought in in 1986 , it had taken time for its effects to come through . |
| 13 | More worryingly , many consumers said they did not like the taste , but much of that could be put down to the fact that many housewives had a narrow cooking repertoire with an average of only two turkey variations . |
| 14 | To drain the works in the soles of Fleming 's Level , a pumping and winding sump was put down at the intersection with the cross-cut and it is believed that power for this was by hand . |
| 15 | The steady release and peak indicates the best way to use this manure : if it is put down at the end of March , the peak comes towards the end of June . |
| 16 | Er , what I would like to propose the erm a a that resolution two of course , was put down at the time it had to be put down er , and is clearly going to be affected by , that it happened at the th the financial services in March and what I have suggested is that you might prefer this be a a a second resolution it is or and turn to the to add on the end of that resolution thus urging local churches to through their consultations with district treasurers and finance committee to increase their contributions to the Ministry of Mission Fund in nineteen ninety three in such a way that provincial commi , commitment may be increased by at least five percent over the nineteen ninety two . |
| 17 | WHEN wood shavings were put down on the floor in the Key Street post room it all proved too much for , left , and . |
| 18 | They are , Hemingway writes , ‘ doing coolie labor for a top wage of $45 a month and they have been put down on the Florida Keys where they ca n't make trouble . |
| 19 | For the purpose of such measurements a layer of distinctive sand is put down on the marsh and the amount of accretion after a period of years measured by cutting down to the patch of sand with a tool sharp enough not to disturb the section . |
| 20 | What about twinning , do you think that that 's of such a high priority that when council houses need repairs that those repairs should be put down on the ladder and said ‘ I 'm sorry , we ca n't deal with that because part of the money that we could allocate to council house repairs is being used for twinning and things like that ’ ? |
| 21 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 22 | So you 'd like to be put down on the ballot to be approved do you ? |
| 23 | Trollope nearly loses control on the subject of The Plumber , a man ‘ doubtless aware that he is odious … to be put down with the tax-gatherer as being as certain as fate and as inexorable . ’ |
| 24 | Medium and long leys are put down with the object of increasing grassland production , extending the growing season and improving the nutritional quality of the herbage . |
| 25 | Thirty of farmer Alan Gerrard 's brutes were put down after the weekend attack on Beverley Hurst , nine . |
| 26 | In Virginia , dependence on a one-crop export trade led to trouble : the price of tobacco continued to fall after Charles 's restoration , and thus was the main reason for Bacon 's rebellion in 1675 , which was put down by the government of the colony before royal troops arrived from England . |
| 27 | The Bill is bound to be extensively amended before it reaches the statute book — at the time of writing 16 , amendments have been put down by the Government and 25 of them are of major importance — but it is believed that few if any of these amendments will affect settlements under which there is subsisting an interest in possession . |
| 28 | He declined to postpone his visit to Argentina , expressing confidence that a military rebellion which had begun there on Dec. 3 [ see p. 37913 ] would be put down by the government of President Carlos Saúl Menem , whom he thanked for sending two Argentinian frigates to the Gulf . |
| 29 | The Commander embarked on one of his monologues on the supineness of the Tory government and the unregenerate socialism of the opposition , interrupted only by murmurs of approval from Fagg , who contributed the insight that rioting yobs in a northern city should have been put down by the Gurkhas . |
| 30 | When , at the end of July and the beginning of August 1943 , four RAF raids practically wiped out the centre of Hamburg — Germany 's second city — in fire-storms , killing some 40,000 people , rumours spread that unrest had had to be put down by the police and SA or Wehrmacht , and that there was a ‘ November mood ’ — an allusion to the revolutionary mood of November 1918 — in the Reich which would rise up against the unbearable air raids . |