Example sentences of "[was/were] put " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put things into context , if half of the membership were to put up 10p a week into an HCB , they would make a total yearly contribution of £260,000 . |
| 2 | Although the flight of the U2 spy plane and the debacle of the summit the following year were to put everybody back on guard once more , there were some moments at the end of the Fifties when the fog of ideology cleared enough for realism to creep in . |
| 3 | ‘ If we were to put a full description of the girl , and of the clothes she was wearing , in Saturday 's paper , it might be seen by her parents or someone who knew her . |
| 4 | Zak and Emil arrived together at that point , Emil ready to set the tables for lunch , Zak in theatrical exasperation demanding to know if the actors were to put on the next scene before the meal as originally planned , and if not , when ? |
| 5 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 6 | Mr and Mrs Lugt were to put together one of the most fascinating collections of the next sixty years . |
| 7 | So , while in 1814 the prime criticism of the idea was that it expected too much of human nature , too much of the people who were to live in the communities and of those who were to put them there , while then it was in short a social criticism , by 1832 the idea had become an economic nonsense . |
| 8 | And if I were to put it , If you have an opportunity of two sites and the development of one is capable of causing damage to existing characteristics and the other is not , would you go for the the one which would not cause damage rather than the one which would , or would you willy-nilly plump for either ? |
| 9 | If he were to put lotion on my hair , however nice it smelled , the bees would n't think much of it at all . |
| 10 | Commonsense told her that her safety and her sanity could only be assured if she were to put a considerable distance between herself and the cottage . |
| 11 | Having said that , you would miss a lot in British politics if you were to put all your interpretative eggs into the basket of corporatist theory . |
| 12 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 13 | Now , perhaps if Mrs Crumwallis were to put some iodine on … ’ |
| 14 | After one hundred days of world peace , all surviving were to put it mildly , a little bothered and regretful . |
| 15 | I would have thought that if we were to put forward the two hundred and fifty pound to cover the , their extra lighting bill , that would have been money well spent . |
| 16 | If I were to put it in er stewed apples or something I would n't eat the actual ginger but in a casserole , it 's nice . |
| 17 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 18 | Unless you were to put , like to fill , to fill it with a cheap flannel and a bar of soap and a sponge . |
| 19 | ‘ They would break in in a trice , while you were putting fresh shot in your fowling gun , and cut us into mincemeat . |
| 20 | The time was now 11.30 p.m. , the Germans were putting up their flares . |
| 21 | But early yesterday , several thousand people with different ideas assembled at the Dynamo Metro station , and began marching towards Red Square , where officials were putting the finishing touches to preparations for the usual annual parade . |
| 22 | In Rome , Italia ‘ 90 's director-general , Luca Di Montezemolo , acknowledged that Spain were putting pressure on Fifa . |
| 23 | We were putting an album together based on his light rock/folk style that he was developing — songs like ‘ Janine ’ , ‘ Unwashed And Slightly Dazed ’ — all that country rock flavour that he was developing and then , out of the blue , he wrote ‘ Space Oddity ’ . |
| 24 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |
| 25 | Clergymen accused the early Cremation Societies of creating local monopolies , which were putting the new practice beyond the reach of the poor . |
| 26 | They were going through the motions on television but their voices , face and body language were vividly clear — they knew they would lose and they were putting on a brave front . |
| 27 | Warner Brothers said PWL stepped into the breach and were putting together the songs for the movie , including using several old 50 ’ s classics by Little Richard , Eddie Cochran and all , while Kylie was doing a cover version of ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , by Little Anthony and the Imperials , and looking for a Christmas Number One . |
| 28 | Twenty-eight percent were putting off-farm income into the farm at the time of the interview whilst a further 28% said they would consider doing this in the future . |
| 29 | Other doctors were putting compresses of saline solution on the worst burns . |
| 30 | This did n't matter to us , as we were putting in new pipework . |