Example sentences of "put it down " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ From the moment I picked up this book to the moment I put it down , ’ wrote GM , ‘ I could n't stop laughing . |
| 2 | Put it down here . |
| 3 | She took hold of it and put it down on the floor . |
| 4 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 5 | Frau Nordern took the phone again , bellowed ‘ Karl ! ’ several decibels louder than Omi , shook the phone as if it were a recalcitrant child , listened again , then put it down . |
| 6 | Put it down to inverted snobbery . |
| 7 | She drained her coffee cup and put it down . |
| 8 | The chemist drew a chair from his dispensary at the rear of the shop and put it down beside the soaps and talcum powders , the bath salts and the loofahs . |
| 9 | Insiders put it down to the pressure of competing for six and seven figure salaries . |
| 10 | ( I put it down to envy ) |
| 11 | Irina , who had been holding in her hand the red saucepan earlier referred to by Ludens , put it down and said , ‘ Oh . ’ |
| 12 | I felt disinclined actually to hand to him the piece of paper I was holding , and so put it down on the end of his bed . |
| 13 | I put it down to that welt in his shoulder . |
| 14 | The horse , moving to juicier thistles , lifted a great chipped hoof large as a soup-plate and put it down beside Hoomey 's plimsoll . |
| 15 | The first few occasions I experienced this enigma I put it down simply to the fact that I was fishing too far out and the bream were brushing against the line and giving me ‘ line ’ bites . |
| 16 | That surprised me and I put it down to Christmas and a slight slackening of my efforts . |
| 17 | Carew folded the paper and put it down on the cluttered tray beside him . |
| 18 | Lifted the receiver , listened to the dialling tone , put it down again . |
| 19 | From one of the voluminous pockets he produced a bottle of Scotch and put it down on the table . |
| 20 | The Friar nodded and got to his feet , picked up his sack , put it down again , and finally tied the neck in a tight knot , looking a little shamefaced as he did it . |
| 21 | I put it down to the necessity for him to exhibit his physical superiority from time to time , in order to maintain his ‘ throne ’ and his following of stooges . |
| 22 | Gradually vanishing , as governments grow more sensitive and put it down as summer diarrhoea . |
| 23 | He had felt the same , momentarily , stepping into the dyeyard at Nicosia , but put it down to a foolish nostalgia . |
| 24 | Sarah hurriedly put it down , her hands trembling , and Mr Priddy looked askance at her , no doubt thinking she was intimidated by the company . |
| 25 | ‘ Put it down to the movement of the ship . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose you 'd put it down to had management tactics , ’ sneered Ray . |
| 27 | The upper middle class customers of Harrods , Marshall & Snelgrove , Shoolbreds , Maples and Debenham & Freebody , and in the provinces of Kendal , Milnes and Lewis 's , who spent whole mornings walking their floors , completed the inspection and sampling in each department by telling the assistant behind the counter , ‘ Put it down on my account . ’ |
| 28 | He sipped at his wine again , then put it down on the arm of his chair and , keeping a finger and thumb on the stem , twisted it one way , then the other . |
| 29 | These machine errors happened two or three times a day , I put it down to mechanical damage whilst moving . |
| 30 | But most of all I put it down to having lots of plants , ( plastic or real ) for cover . |