Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] put " in BNC.

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1 Hopes for some juicy corporate finance work helped put another 9 points on Kleinwort Benson at 260p and 13 onto Hambros at 263p .
2 The committee , chaired by Conservative MP Hugh Rossi , wants an amendment to the Trade Descriptions Act to help put an end to companies making misleading " green " claims bought about by the rise of green consumerism .
3 Among the Board 's principal aims is to provide the leadership that can negotiate a further reduction in betting tax to help put racing on a firm financial footing .
4 Carbon dating helped put an age to the body and helped the archaeologists to understand his lifestyle .
5 If you want to experiment at home , it 'll cost you far less than in a salon but you should get a friend to help put the rollers in to get perfectly even curls .
6 When the mare is in at night do put a rug on her , feel her ears to check she is warm enough .
7 No player not appearing in that particular game dared put his face round the door .
8 Yeah , yeah and she 's , yeah , and she says she 's so fed cos to her there 's nothing wrong with her , the baby did put on weight last week , but she said you know , what do you do in here all day .
9 ‘ One tries to be open-minded , ’ Callaghan said , ‘ but that sort of approach does put one off , rather .
10 Its application does put its exponents in the firing line of critical appraisal .
11 The plain truth , however , is that if the buyer does put off buying until another day it is as likely that he will buy from the competition .
12 The official condemnation of the Copernican system did put constraints on what could be taught , though the option of presenting it as merely a mathematical hypothesis was still open , and increasingly taken during the course of the seventeenth century .
13 ‘ Eeh ! his idea did put the fear of God into me .
14 Lotus wants a partner to help put a £1,500 to £2,000 version of the bike into the shops within a year .
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