Example sentences of "as [noun prp] put [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bazaar rumour had it that her closeness to Shah Jehan went beyond merely normal filial affection ; after all , as Bernier put it : ‘ it would have been unjust to deny the King the privilege of gathering fruit from the tree he himself had planted . ’ |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Marcus came less and less often , perhaps ‘ frightened off ’ , as Alison put it , by Pat 's noisy friends , or simply feeling that Pat no longer needed him . |
| 3 | As Nairn put it , the late nineteenth century witnessed ‘ first the containment , then the defeat , of industrialism by an older , more powerful and more political bourgeoisie ’ ( cited in Coates , 1984 , p. 117 ) . |
| 4 | Freeing the study of politics from its ‘ structural overtones ’ , as Almond put it , not only meant searching for the familiar functions of government in unfamiliar social structures ( such as administration by age sets ) . |
| 5 | As Brooks put it , the New Criticism ‘ is concerned with the structure of the poem as poem ’ ( Brooks 1962 : 108 ) . |
| 6 | Society , as Frunze put it , is to be ‘ militarised ’ , as is the vocabulary of life . |
| 7 | As Ferguson put it : ‘ Sharpe is a deliverer , not a flatterer . |
| 8 | As Walahfrid put it , this honor remained " left over " . |
| 9 | As Walahfrid put it , " the glory of ruler and state were always reparable " . |
| 10 | As McKerrow put it : " much of what we strive to find out was not and could not be known to those of the period which we study , for it was veiled from them by the life of everyday . " |
| 11 | Her purchase by the B. J. Norsk Forsking of Larvik for seismographical work in the Bellingshausen Sea almost due south of the Horn was , as Ward put it , ‘ just about the very first good thin' that had ever happened to her , ’ even if it was a slightly clandestine operation . |
| 12 | As Collier put it : " The greatest number of families were in a better economic position after the introduction of the factory system because of the increased earnings of women and children . " |
| 13 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 14 | In a vein of intimacy the Cubists introduced into their compositions the names of popular songs , the programmes of theatres they had visited , the packets of cigarettes they had smoked , or the headings of newspapers they read — elements which , as Apollinaire put it , were ‘ already drenched in humanity ’ . |
| 15 | Chastity , as Blackwell put it , the government of the passions , is the highest law ; and one natural to women . |
| 16 | If this was inconvenient , Richard did not say so , although to be called to the telephone , or wanted on the telephone , as Richard put it , always seemed a kind of reproach in itself . |
| 17 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 18 | Ranulf and the escort were told to wait outside but the lay brother was asked to come in for he could , as Corbett put it , ‘ talk in the common language ’ . |
| 19 | Richard was … quieter , ‘ less the buffoon ’ , as Oldfield put it . |
| 20 | ‘ We felt it was important to let them know beforehand that the public would welcome another airline , ’ as Branson put it . |
| 21 | He observed the introspection and its richness of imagination with a certain alarm ; Benson looking into himself and finding there , as Ramsey put it , ‘ a huge world of fantasy ’ , which caused him distress and yet conditioned his affection for the human race . |
| 22 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 23 | After the funeral at Golders Green Crematorium , the entire Williams clan — including cousins neither Pat nor Ken had seen for a quarter of a century — assembled for drinks , ‘ a real old Cockney wake , ’ as Pat put it . |
| 24 | Such solitariness was a condition and not a mood , however ; it lay beneath those moments of inexplicable high spirits when Eliot seemed , as Sherek put it , " as gay as a cricket " , just as it could be combined with apparent activity and " busyness " in the world . |
| 25 | The time may not , therefore , be too far away when , as McKinsey put it in their 1989 report , the scenario of ‘ potential unlocked ’ becomes a reality for AEA . |
| 26 | America might be a superpower , as the Iranians kept saying , but Iran — as Hakim put it — was a ‘ super religious power ’ , one that might easily find the pretext of some religious occasion to persuade Hizbollah to set the captives free . |
| 27 | Most of the music is lost but it is clear from the libretto that it was a hybrid of Italian opera and French ballet de cour ; as Prunières put it , ‘ Instead of being self-sufficient , the ballet is justified by the comedy and the comedy draws the ballet into the dramatic action ’ . |
| 28 | The British censors refused to allow it to be shown unless he removed the sex scene in the back of a car — or , as Nicholson put it , ‘ they did n't mind the fucking so much , it was the coming they objected to . |
| 29 | As Melody put it to Seb when they were discussing the matter for the umpteenth time at the farm , ‘ You go up there and try to tell 'em Anna should n't be marrying Nahum Plunkett and they 'll tear you to pieces and feed you to the dogs . ’ |
| 30 | The American policy also assumed that if TOWs were bartered for lives , as North put it , the transaction could be passed off as something other than ransom , neatly tied up without the stakes being raised . |