Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] put " in BNC.
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| 31 | French President François Mitterrand had put forward the idea of a European confederation in a speech on Dec. 31 , 1989 , shortly after the fall of eastern Europe 's communist regimes ; he reiterated his ideas in Prague in September 1990 [ see p. 37724 ] . |
| 32 | Tony Mannion equalised for the Liverpool SSU Shipping League premier division side and after Lee Walker had put Turpins ahead Mannion clinched victory . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Joszef had put capital into the real estate business of a distant cousin . |
| 35 | He sometimes wondered if Eleanor had put a curse on him . |
| 36 | ‘ I feel better now , ’ said young Tilney to Toby , as the boys sat around eating supper — a potato pie that Mrs Garfitt had left for them , and which Toby had put in the oven . |
| 37 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 38 | Molly had put the fish in the meat safe . |
| 39 | Wainfleet had put on his most triumphant expression as Marshall and Wickham strolled in and it was deflating to realize it was wasted . |
| 40 | Yes , I , yes I think Andrea 's put her finger on it . |
| 41 | In the meantime , a brave team led by marketing director Stephen Roberts have put their homes on the line to do this lawnmower deal . |
| 42 | As Professor Deane has put it , there took place , mainly in the first half of the century , " a series of developments in the money market , an expansion in the number , range and efficiency of English financial institutions which amounted in all to a financial revolution " . |
| 43 | SCOTTISH manager Andy Roxburgh has put Middlesbrough midfield player Willie Falconer on standby for the European Championships in Sweden . |
| 44 | SCOTTISH manager Andy Roxburgh has put Middlesbrough midfield player Willie Falconer on standby for the European Championships in Sweden . |
| 45 | Powerlessness , too , corrupts , as Rollo May has put it , adding a maxim from Edgar Z. Friedenberg : ‘ All weakness corrupts and impotence corrupts absolutely . ’ |
| 46 | As Brewer has put it : The scheme , disreputable and corrupt as it was , succeeded in its chief aim of changing the structure of the national debt . |
| 47 | RIVAL Allied Lyons has put its top ranking Bordeaux vineyard , Chateau Latour , up for sale . |
| 48 | Mr Salmond has put down a Commons motion condemning the Budget changes in the oil taxation regime , which he says will cost the industry £500 million more in revenue to the exchequer in the first year . |
| 49 | Cleveland businessman Keith Schellengerg has put his Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides up for sale hoping to raise from £1–2m . |
| 50 | THE CASE of an alleged ‘ kinky shrink ’ at Harvard has put America 's oldest university into a flat spin . |
| 51 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 52 | Like many other companies , Peugeot has put the revs per minute control on the front face of the trigger . |
| 53 | Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’ |
| 54 | As R. Q. Gray has put it : |
| 55 | Alan Sked put forward a plan for European union , endorsed by the Group 's council , that eschewed bureaucratic federalism . |
| 56 | England manager Graham Taylor left him out of the European Championship squad last summer and Blackburn pulled put of a £3 million transfer at the 11th hour in August . |
| 57 | As a result , Mitchell has told Alan to stay put , at least until the BTR pension trustees have made their decision about the surpluses . |
| 58 | Ash had put them there . |
| 59 | Only that was nonsense , they would not be here , they would be wherever Randolph Henry Ash had put them , if they had ever been written . |
| 60 | If , however , the dance told the bees where to go , they should go off to the wrong place ( depending on where Gould had put the light bulb ) . |