Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [been] put to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said he answered some of their questions sarcastically and spoke in Russian , even though he is bilingual and the questions had been put to him in Moldavian . |
| 2 | He knew of the coup attempt of seven weeks earlier and he had heard the rumour that nine Air Force officers had been put to death . |
| 3 | Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly . |
| 4 | It was not the first time Stumpf 's skills had been put to such use . |
| 5 | By the beginning of December , the finishing touches had been put to the apartment . |