Example sentences of "to put it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All , from Davout down to the humblest ranker , were eager to put it to the test . |
| 2 | I really think , although I would not be prepared to put it to the test , that you could go out in the streets of London in your nightdress and nobody would notice . |
| 3 | It might be prudent to put it to the test . |
| 4 | More shaming had been his reluctance to put it to the test . |
| 5 | Against the urgent advice of Keith , Fraser and other veterans , they decided that the English were afraid to put it to the test ; but they were not . |
| 6 | Naturally the two officers protest that their girls are different , but Alfonso persuades them to put it to the test . |
| 7 | So too with exhibiting : somewhere a reader may be able to grow significantly better roses than his or her neighbours , and he or she would like to put it to the test of the show-bench . |
| 8 | The beauty of this method is that it is not only fascinating but incredibly cheap and will not need large capital expenditure to put it to the test . |
| 9 | ‘ I doubt if His Grace would ever stand up in a court-room to give evidence on my behalf , but I counted on Magistrate Peck being afraid to put it to the test . ’ |
| 10 | Technical considerations are being completed , and I hope that we shall be able to put it to the House before long . |
| 11 | Sorry I was going to go down to get an authorization from Age Concern , I missed the first bit , but erm if resources are allowed for this work , would it not be better to aim them at priority areas , and not wards , I mean , in other words , to put it to the areas that needed most . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't know I had to put it on the meat — ’ |
| 13 | The first day at the newspaper they sent me into the darkroom with a roll of film and I think I was in the closet for about five hours before I could figure out how to put it on the reel . ’ |
| 14 | But , carrying baskets of buffalo dung from the pit by the cattle shed , along the road and down towards the mango tree to put it on the furthest field , my nose was burnt before I 'd walked twenty yards . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're going to put it on the poster , Wes . |
| 16 | ’ Clearly , Adam was only reluctantly willing to share his plans with his parents , ‘ Since you ask , I 'm going to go down and take a look at it as soon as I can and then I 'm going to put it on the market . ’ |
| 17 | Its owner for the last 17 years , Keith Schellenberg , has been forced to put it on the market as part of a divorce settlement , agreed after more than ten years of legal wranglings . |
| 18 | I like to put it on the table and hear the comments afterwards , and I 'm pleased to bits if it 's been all right … |
| 19 | The best method nowadays , of course , is to put it on the computer and let the computer plot the lot . |
| 20 | To put it on the slide and send it into the flames had seemed like a bitter , bitter joke . |
| 21 | And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from . |
| 22 | My point is a very short one , I I simply need to put it on the record that it is erm our position that the panel should distribute the er ove York overspill , if I can call it that , as well , that the panel should address the issue of distribution , because our fear is th is th is is is the Selby problem , that Selby are embarked upon a clear strategy of er substantial growth , and we do not want to see er the Greater York overspill being unduly er dir funnelled channelled in that direction . |
| 23 | I had to put it on the floor to work the door bar and once I had it open , I slid it out with my foot . |
| 24 | So we 're definitely agreed that we ask the Town Clerk to make those two contacts and to put it on the agenda for the Planning Committee ? |
| 25 | The only other er notice I 've got for you is that tomorrow I forgot to put it on the notices tomorrow we 've got a lot of visitors in school there 's about er thirty five of them coming over who are likely to be joining us in the lower sixth next September er lessons with the lower sixth to find out what erm what lessons are like you know okay . |
| 26 | ‘ There is a big future for this club , and I intend to put it on the right footing . |
| 27 | Mm , you can do it so , the worst one I ever did was just filling a kettle of water and turning round to put it on the , on the cooker . |
| 28 | they still leave you room to put it on the bottom of the thing and I just scrubbed that . |
| 29 | no , what I 'd like you to do is , I want you to put it on the erm , you can take it home later , put it on the windowsill with your plan , do n't lose your plan please put it on the windowsill your plan you need to have your plans with you , now you can start tidying up your mess and |
| 30 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |