Example sentences of "put a " in BNC.
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| 31 | His admission that Central Office had put a tabloid newspaper in touch with the consultant at the centre of the case was a spectacular own goal . |
| 32 | Mr Smith has hardly put a foot wrong . |
| 33 | A predicted upturn in the market would have put a much higher valuation on the painting . |
| 34 | Officials at Number 10 are planning for all contingencies , as usual , and have put a removal van on standby in case the couple have to move out next weekend . |
| 35 | If I had put a tea cosy on my head I would have been a dead ringer for Mrs Pankhurst , but it affected my behaviour even more than my looks . |
| 36 | Journalists published last week a copy of an affidavit made to the police saying that Mrs Mandela had put a 20,000 rand ( £4,000 ) ‘ contract ’ on the life of Dr Abu-Baker Asvat , shot dead in his surgery on January 27 , 1989 . |
| 37 | Perhaps I should have put a bit more water into my late night whisky ? |
| 38 | But to get them , Midland 's board has put a price on its business , and is left with no defence against a bidder prepared to offer more . |
| 39 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
| 40 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
| 41 | In a letter to the Ministry of Education at the beginning of 1955 , in the midst of the negotiations following the publication of the Report , the National Secretary had actually put a figure on this , saying that the various Districts would like thirty more full-time tutors . |
| 42 | If I am to change it I feel that I might as well put a larger engine in it , could you please advise me what would be the best petrol engine and would I have to convert it to 12 volt ; which I do n't really want to do . |
| 43 | I 'm not all that religious , I reckon you can be good without goin' to Church , and that , but I know wickedness when I see it , and it ought to be put a stop to . ’ |
| 44 | It has developed new reactor designs , instigated research into everything from waste disposal to the potential for nuclear fusion , was responsible for fuel fabrication and reprocessing ( until this devolved to BNF in 1971 ) , and has put a major part of its effort into developing a commercially viable fast breeder reactor . |
| 45 | Why had n't they just put a notice up on the screen half through the scene she was shooting when she died , saying this has to stop somewhere ? |
| 46 | You see , Mr McKillop , although I 'm reasonably happy to accept you as Elsie 's brother and I appreciate that you 've put a great deal of work into tracking her down , I 'm bound to say that I respect Elsie 's wishes to start life afresh and leave her old life behind . |
| 47 | That young scut has put a fancy piece in the family way . |
| 48 | Other insurers , however , have put a much higher loading on ageing drivers because of evidence which suggests that the risk of accident increases when drivers are in their 60s and over and fail to realise that their faculties are diminishing . |
| 49 | The other thing one can do is once again increasingly to use food that we , ourselves , can not or will not use , and the imposition of quotas which has put a degree of extensification on dairy production , has in fact encouraged this trend . |
| 50 | My GP , a vegetarian who has put a seeking ear in the direction of Krishnamurti , was not unsympathetic , although he did express concern at the very stringent vegan diet . |
| 51 | ‘ I feel like a leper , all they need to do now is put a bell round my neck . ’ |
| 52 | Anyway , we seem to have put a spoke in Fouché 's wheel this time , with some assistance from Fedorov and the Grand Army . ’ |
| 53 | Obviously at some time in the past , Farrs had put a new body on the chassis and Dad had seen the possibilities of the old one as an allotment shed . |
| 54 | I often took it with me when going to the allotment and felt very grown up on the return journey if my father had put a few vegetables in it . |
| 55 | But Brussels has now put a ceiling of 600 000 kits a year on this operation . |
| 56 | His main target was vanity , and how materialism has put a brake on the human race . |
| 57 | I should have put a stop to it . ’ |
| 58 | Two years ago Mr Gladstone had promised that by 1855 taxation would drop to sixpence in the pound , but the war in the Crimea had put a stop to such plans . |
| 59 | Then I was showered with the realisation that I had spent half a working day thinking these thoughts , during which time , if I had put a foot wrong , I would have immediately proved , to some people 's satisfaction , the innate unsuitability of women for this kind of work ; and that clinched it ; and I wrote the letter and confirmed the complaint . |
| 60 | As far as Jean-Paul is concerned , the French have n't put a foot wrong . |