Example sentences of "[vb base] to put [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want to put water in ? |
| 2 | No fewer than 12 companies in the US say they want to put craft into space for this purpose . |
| 3 | But we also want to put government at your service , giving you what you 've paid for — good public services , responsible to you . |
| 4 | Which others , it 's the status within the company I suppose if you want to put income against that , I mean I 'm only guessing . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to put foundation garments on to every pretty woman in Leningrad . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I- want to put appearance at the office before lunch . ’ |
| 7 | They are very sensitive and when their world seems to be falling apart , they want to put identity tags on anything they consider theirs . |
| 8 | Such is the general expectation that married couples will have children that those who do not want them , or want to put parenthood on a few more years , or sadly learn that they can not conceive , find themselves having to respond to veiled or not so veiled queries . |
| 9 | The Chinese want to put pressure on Vietnam , and Peking has made clear that it will continue sending arms until the Vietnamese-installed government of Hun Sen agrees to some form of power-sharing that includes the Khmer Rouge . |
| 10 | And if we want to put rank and |
| 11 | Forget to put water in car radiator . |
| 12 | okay , it is where the trouser crease meets the line of the groin and it 's skin deep , okay , so you 'll pushing onto it you 'd probably have to put your two fingers and a pad and your knuckles right in there , alright and you 'll feel it yourself best when you 're lying down and your knee just up like that , that 's when you can feel it best because you can push in harder then , cos you 've relaxed your stomach and that 's another tip for putting pressure on it when you 've got somebody who needs that , you need to relax the stomach muscle , but you manage to put pressure up there okay ? |
| 13 | It 's a fact that American men seem to put business before everything . |
| 14 | Their highly successful current TV campaign , however , relies almost entirely on the relationships between the members of a distinctive , but quite ordinary , family in which individuals just happen to put Oxo into the meals they produce . |
| 15 | So we begin to put pressure on the child , and the child reacts because he ca n't appreciate what we 're trying to get across to him , and so we get a sort of stalemate situation , where the teacher , be it a professional teacher or a parent , is pressurizing the child to understand something which appears quite simplistic , and the child is responding quite deadly , because he can not focus , he can not conceptualize , what is to us a very simple concept . |
| 16 | At a meeting of the Finance Committee members will pr , make a progress report on how the poll tax collection is going , and campaigners say they intend to put pressure on councillors in an attempt to get them to review the collection process . |
| 17 | I tend to put sweat shirts and jumpers together . |
| 18 | They very often do n't know what the something else is going to be , but we tend to put time limits on what children should do and when they should do it . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , will my right hon. Friend continue to put pressure on the 35 countries that still place restrictions on our exporters ? |
| 20 | Here gigantic gi , we use to have a word of the day when erm Ian was here , use to put word of the day up on the board |
| 21 | and then he can have what they have to put price in and then they , they have the scrap out of them see and all the rest of it . |
| 22 | Other organisations have different goals — institutions such as banks have to put accountability , reliability and security high on their list of priorities . |
| 23 | ‘ I keep thinking of that girl in Pittsburgh , ’ he said with a bitter ruefulness , ‘ and how the bastards who run the peep-show have to put sawdust on the booth floors every hour . |
| 24 | It 's quite a strange thing to paint on because it 's a very absorbent surface and what happens if you wa , those of you who want subtle colours , well that 's fine cos you get very subtle colours if you want deep colours like black dark brown or a bright colour like bright red berries on the holly then we have to put varnish on alright ? |
| 25 | Twelve such operations later , you have your year 's month headings entered , and only then realise that you should have started not at cell A1 ( the top left hand corner of any spreadsheet ) , but in a bit and down a bit — you have to put row headings in as well . |
| 26 | What I mean you have to put petrol in , I mean , it does n't |
| 27 | No , you have to put petrol in . |
| 28 | You mean every time I have that car I have to put petrol in . |
| 29 | From another point of view , it is an attempt to indicate to those who have to put language curricula into practice , at whatever level — ELT classrooms , lower school , sixth form , university — that there is a great deal to be gained by being prepared to leave the beaten track , as H V Morton did . |
| 30 | And he says : ‘ I got in only because Ian was hurt , but I have to put sentiment aside and think of Kevin Campbell . ’ |