Example sentences of "[noun] to put [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used Druze fighters as a colonial militia just as they used members of the minority Muslim Alawite community in Syria to put down Sunni Muslim nationalist revolt . |
| 2 | He was reckoned to be one of the officers prepared to use force to put down the revolution . |
| 3 | The student starts off with a fairly definite hold on the world , built on reasonably stable concepts and ideas , but at the end of the course has grasped that very little of the intellectual world has enduring substance and that there are always more cognitive spectacles to put on . |
| 4 | Will you stay here and Mummy 'll get you a sweater to put on . |
| 5 | small , medium , I 'm sure that 's what I had , no they feel nice though , I did n't like the feel of the other ones , I expect there 's enough money in there , I 've got me plimsolls to put on |
| 6 | Elated , the Scots leaders gave orders for boats and crews from the harbour to put out , to deal with the wrecked and stranded vessels and their people . |
| 7 | Banished to the cabin , she lay there full of joy , feeling the crazy desire of the old boat to put out once again into mid-stream . |
| 8 | He 's buying up Arsenal to put out a strong reserve team : |
| 9 | When the price has been agreed your agent will confirm it in writing and notify your solicitor — but wait until the buyer 's survey has been completed and the house given the OK before celebrating or allowing your agent to put up his ‘ Sold Subject to Contract ’ sign . |
| 10 | It was the only Italian name I could think of in a hurry and I did n't have the nerve to put on the right accent to go with it . ’ |
| 11 | Is that what you wanted was that the right card to put down ? |
| 12 | During July 1690 , demonstrating the French command of the Narrow Seas , small landing parties were put ashore on the Sussex coast to put up posters urging local residents , and especially army and navy officers , to support their former king , a somewhat pointless propaganda exercise , but a much more serious incursion followed . |
| 13 | The Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie near the Porte de la Villette in Paris is one of those technological markers the French like to put down to show that architecture in their capital is not all ormulu and Belle Epoque . |
| 14 | Primed by Stephanie 's reaction , she had the presence of mind to put on an impressive pretence of knowing all about the recent ‘ mystery ’ consignment . |
| 15 | She turned them inside out , returned them to Dot to put on with the insides now on the outside . |
| 16 | The course took all of Friday to put up instead of just the morning but things improved in the evening . |
| 17 | She escaped into the house and went through to her bedroom to put on a dress . |
| 18 | Firemen were called to Old Cemetery Road in Hartlepool shortly before midnight on Tuesday to put out a blazing car . |
| 19 | Sports officer Ian Gardiner said : ‘ We will be submitting a bid for funds to put on a new series of Champion Coaching based on the popularity of the last course . |
| 20 | Well funny enough she 's , she 's got a light to put on now . |
| 21 | SNP tells Lang to put up or shut up |
| 22 | Scientists and engineers at the conference , however , foresaw a major collaboration between academics and European financiers who would seek a permit to put up the estimated $130 million to design the garbage ships and capsules . |
| 23 | Grading is a method of achieving a shorthand synthesis of every possible quality that one might wish to be included in a profile , consolidated into a symbol which examiners understand pragmatically with reference to a platonic point of reference existing in the minds of a group of examiners who have worked together , while a profile , however detailed , can never be more than an attempt to put down all those qualities . |
| 24 | But police do not think the arson attack was a deliberate attempt to put out lights in the town so that the looting could take place . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There is all the difference between keeping slim , well-groomed and well-dressed in order to look good at forty-five or fifty , and putting the same amount of effort into an attempt to put back the clock and have another crack at being twenty-five . |
| 27 | And officers had to call in the fire brigade to put out the blaze . |
| 28 | On June 12 an accord was signed between the RPR and the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) allowing for the two parties to put up joint candidates at local and legislative elections . |
| 29 | Fujitsu has won permission from Sedgefield District Council 's development committee to put up a chemical drum store at its factory at Heighington . |
| 30 | They will offer package programmes at minimal cost , in the hope of recovering their outlay and , most importantly , providing an inducement for a sponsor to put up £6 million for world-wide exposure . |