Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] put " in BNC.

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1 At worst , this is quite simply being ignored : neither the LEA adviser , nor the head nor any one else asks about special interests and skills developed on the course and how these could be most effectively put to good use in the school .
2 As he rather gloomily put together a breakfast of poached egg and grilled bacon he felt neither particularly healthy nor particularly clear-minded .
3 So they had all foolishly put the ‘ X ’ on the ballot paper and thought to themselves , ‘ Just think , I 'll be able to tell the grandchildren that I was partly responsible for world peace . ’
4 I better not put a star on this one though had I cos
5 Oh better not put you off your food .
6 I better not put these on the table .
7 Despite the fact that he had apparently not put himself out overmuch to get home , he was given a hero 's welcome in Polperro .
8 There is , however , a worrying trend that is perhaps best put down to enthusiasm .
9 ‘ It 's almost summer , ’ said Sarah , obviously not put off .
10 She had apparently already put such a proposition to her mother on the telephone .
11 Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request .
12 I 've only just put it on
13 I 've only just put it out er , Rosie , but I 'll just put it in the microwave for a minute .
14 No I 've only just put the , it 's just cos of the microphone 's on too much er I 've only just put the batteries in , some new batteries in .
15 No I 've only just put the , it 's just cos of the microphone 's on too much er I 've only just put the batteries in , some new batteries in .
16 Men are not quite so easily put off sex .
17 ’ When she saw Tilly would not be so easily put off , she sighed loudly .
18 He , however , was not to be so easily put off .
19 If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly .
20 Somewhat less clearly put , mental episodes are to be understood in terms of their roles or functions vis-à-vis other things .
21 Before going on to it however , the writer wishes to recapitulate as a means of recording further thoughts on the ideas so far put forward .
22 It is time to take account of that difference between perceiving from ‘ Now ’ and ‘ I ’ and imagining from other viewpoints which we have so far put aside as irrelevant.4 Although one can respond with some awareness to remote or hypothetical situations , and evaluate them sub specie aeternitatis , everyone 's actual choices of ends are of course confined to his own present and future and to his effective scope of action .
23 The negotiations — and with them USL 's desire to conserve cash and pretty up its balance sheet as much as possible — might explain why it has so far put little muscle into marketing Destiny since its announcement in June ( UX No 390 ) .
24 Most people do not in fact recognize the secularist bias precisely because it is ubiquitous and so forcefully put across .
25 He was ashamed that his mother had so accurately put her finger on where he spent his nights .
26 For example ‘ Lord Of The Flies ’ on symbolism , no other book I have read is so well and so believably put together with everything fitting together perfectly .
27 Increased understanding of the burdens which they carry should lead us to greater awareness of the strain under which they are so often put .
28 In the next moment after Peter has been so firmly put right by Jesus , he has an experience that he is never to forget .
29 Doug Wilson , no doubt , thought Melissa , and young Godfrey Mellish who had been so firmly put in his place by Barney .
30 As Sir Arthur Bryant has so vividly put it , ‘ That life of scholarship and labour , with the tireless hand writing amid the intervals of prayer and teaching , sometimes so frozen that it could hardly grip the pen , is one of the proud memories of England . ’
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