Example sentences of "could [adv] put a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Abbey National was less sanguine : ‘ This could effectively put a seal on the property market to the end of the year , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 2 | An aquarium only became necessary when I could not put a name to even some of the commoner intertidal fish , in the short time that the tide was out . |
| 3 | Beneath all the doubts , all the hurt , there still lingered something … something she could not put a finger on . |
| 4 | There was something in his attitude which worried Wycliffe but he could not put a finger on it . |
| 5 | Witt , a big-serving 6ft 3ins American , produced a disastrous 12 double faults in the match but most of those came in the first set and a half when Wilkinson could hardly put a foot wrong . |
| 6 | you know you could always put a bit of paint on it |
| 7 | I could n't put a price on his head , ’ said Keegan . |
| 8 | He looked … well , she could n't put a name to how he looked . |
| 9 | There was a strange sort of hissing in the bracken to the west which I could n't put a name to . |
| 10 | God was something that you glimpsed in only your rarest moments , and could n't put a name to . |
| 11 | I could n't put a name on her treatment of me , no word existed for what she was trying to do , but I knew I was being manipulated under the guise of deference and consideration . |
| 12 | Rex made a peculiar face of his own , but I could n't put a name to it . |
| 13 | As she watched the door swing gently to a close behind him , Lindsey was left with the crazy feeling that she must have imagined those few seconds when something , even if she could n't put a name to it , had passed between them . |
| 14 | With a rush of emotion she could n't put a name to Luce realised that her first instinctive feeling about him had been absolutely right . |
| 15 | He came back with a brace of fish of a species she could n't put a name to . |
| 16 | I mean you could n't put a stranger on a job that you , you yourself . |
| 17 | But once you were qualified for the job you could n't put a stranger on you had to ta teach that stranger a job . |
| 18 | You could n't put a porch on the front of that . |
| 19 | The manager of the neighbouring pig farm could n't put a figure to his losses , but thought them considerable , especially in May and June , when fox cubs start hunting their own food . |
| 20 | They could n't put a cloth over it , you know , like I had that night when the Corporal rushed , parang drawn , into my room at the O. T. X-Ray . |
| 21 | She could even put a name to his American fiancée . |
| 22 | I could even put a tag on a few customers . |
| 23 | It could even put a question mark over the future of England captain and selector Graham Gooch , whose fitness and discipline regime have become a hallmark of the current side , and which Gower has had some difficulty fitting in with . |
| 24 | He could neither put a stop to the gossip nor put William on trial . |
| 25 | But you could actually put a bag all the way and tie it into tie it into er the it 's the Skillery Bridge that one . |