Example sentences of "put [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A palace aide said last night : ‘ We were all a bit apprehensive about the lunch but when they arrived they put everyone at ease . |
| 2 | Not so High Rocks , whose owners have steadily raised their admission charges in the last few years , threatened climbers with access restrictions , and put nothing at all back into the maintenance of the rocks , save to enclose them in a sturdy , reinforced fence . |
| 3 | Within the last 20 years it was the practice here to pen the sheep for clipping and for the fleeces to be thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery , who put them at once into the barn for storage . |
| 4 | The airlines , facing their fourth successive year in the red , are urging the EC to drop plans to lower maximum noise levels and nitrogen oxide emissions , arguing that they could increase operating costs , reduce the resale value of operators ' fleets and put them at a competitive disadvantage to international rivals . |
| 5 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 6 | We could build a stable , put them at the bottom of the garden and how expensive the |
| 7 | Oh oh if it 's gon na be rough put them at . |
| 8 | She had a soft voice and always put me at my ease . |
| 9 | My best friends , Ada , Nora and Nives , all had bicycles , which put me at a serious disadvantage . |
| 10 | He accepted my apologies for my appearance and quickly put me at ease , saying he had been a close friend of my father and was delighted to meet his son . |
| 11 | Now what I 'd like you to do is to select two , I told you I 'd be serious in the last part , the whole is here , is select the two pads you like best , please , and put one at the front of the binder and one at the back . |
| 12 | Yeah , cos like if you 've got three Ss or something then you put one at the bottom of the pack and keep the card if you 've got an |
| 13 | According to Eurotunnel it is £7bn ; the contractors put it at £7.5bn . |
| 14 | Whereas the government publicly estimated the cost of meeting EC water standards at £3–4 billion , City sources put it at £22–32 billion over 11 years . |
| 15 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |
| 16 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
| 17 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
| 18 | The Peacock Committee was convinced that it was no longer possible to recommend ‘ no change ’ to either the licence fee system or the funding structure of broadcasting as a whole ; the differences between the two sources of revenue would create recurring crises for the BBC and put it at a competitive disadvantage compared to the ITV structure . |
| 19 | It would not comment on the potential value of the joint venture but published reports put it at around $3,000m , adding that Cable & Wireless and Telstra would share 40% , Benpres would take another 40% , and the rest would go to smaller investors . |
| 20 | The official census gives the figures for the number of Chinese Muslims as fifteen million but independent estimates put it at between 30 and 40 million . |
| 21 | Connon picked up the plastic bag , opened it , put it at the edge of the table and swept the items into it with one efficient movement of his hand . |
| 22 | Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen . |
| 23 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
| 24 | Estimates put it at 40,000 million gallons of flood water . |
| 25 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
| 26 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 27 | In fact put it at the back somewhere I think pong . |
| 28 | Another accident we had with an a wardrobe two of my lads had which was a funny one in retrospect but I some when you carry a wardrobe , funnily enough , the easiest way often if you 've got a tight corner , you know as you go round a corner in a staircase you 'll come from a landing and often turn right or turn left to go down , if you put it at an angle like that then you wo n't get it round the corner without catching the bannister . |
| 29 | Erm , well I put it at the . |
| 30 | And you can mass type , erm mass headlines , and we do negative type leading and all the rest , but you have to add up that extra descender space and put it at the bottom of the headline . |