Example sentences of "they put [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1978 British Rail and the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français ( SNC ) had started planning a single track rail tunnel for through rail services , commonly known as the Mousehole , and they put forward a plan to the governments in 1979 . |
| 2 | They put forward a number of suggestions . |
| 3 | They are alleged to send the ball further but I 'm not sure that they put even a yard on a shot . |
| 4 | ‘ They put together a group of people like Take That ! , who did n't even know each other until they formed — not that I 'm knocking them , because they 've got more front than we have — but it 's not going to work unless it 's real , ’ gripes Tony . |
| 5 | But company executives accept that there must have been a leak as they put together a financing package to back their bid for Dixons . |