Example sentences of "[verb] put " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm trying to establish put down a figure of forty six thousand for migration . |
| 2 | I can bring along the statements of these people who 've said all sorts of things , you can you know put down at once but they 're not put down . |
| 3 | It has outgrown the baby-clothes of Count and Duke and breeched itself in manhood , it has put down the dwarf and set up the man . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps more than any other man in Canada , he has put poetry on the map — at the centre , indeed ; and fought and argued and worked demoniacally to preserve it there . |
| 5 | As Churchland ( 1988 , p. 37 ) has put it , ‘ what is important for mentality is not the matter of which the creature is made , but the structure of the internal activities which that matter contains ’ . |
| 6 | It means something has been said or something has happened that has put the subject of the remark in an uncomfortable place . |
| 7 | As Frank Kermode has put it , |
| 8 | How that life was saved live can now know , thanks to Catherine Seelye who has put the story together , mostly out of Olson 's posthumous papers at the University of Connecticut . |
| 9 | Welsh rugby is also in trouble on the field — on Saturday , five weeks before Wales play New Zealand , they lost to Bridgend — and a thigh injury in that debacle has put David Young out of the Home Unions XV who play France on Wednesday . |
| 10 | GRAND METROPOLITAN , the international food and drinks group , has put in a £150m bid for the Whyte & Mackay spirits business being sold by leisure group Brent Walker . |
| 11 | Nomura , forecasting year 's profits of £273m against last time 's £229.1m , has put the shares on its buy list . |
| 12 | Mr James has put a hold on all disposals from Eagle while he completes a strategic review of the business , which was rocked by the liquidation of Connect Parcels and the disappearance of £13.7m of funds . |
| 13 | ANGLO UNITED , which won its £478m bid for Coalite in July , has put eight Coalite businesses up for sale . |
| 14 | Psychiatrists see Thatchergate , the design of which has now been agreed with English Heritage , as evidence of the stress a decade in office has put on the occupant of No 10 . |
| 15 | As a fellow international lawyer has put it , Akehurst is one of the few who succeeded . |
| 16 | He has put in an application to build a restaurant and car park on some of his remaining land . |
| 17 | It has put us in the position of villains , whereas the Secretary of State is the villain because he will not pay . |
| 18 | The Government has shied away from forcing unions to discipline members who take part in unofficial action , and has put proposals to curb strikes in essential services on the back burner . |
| 19 | NU-SWIFT GROUP has put the finishing touches to France 's second biggest leveraged buyout , confirming yesterday the £218.7m sale of an 88.5 per cent stake in Compagnie Centrale Sicli . |
| 20 | Eddie Dayan , Lowndes ' managing director , said it was too early to know how the latest round of interest rates would affect sales , but the company has put on hold its £10m store refurbishment programme , which was three-quarters complete . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the decision to sell Saatchi 's ailing business consultancy division has put additional strains on Saatchi management and a number of senior managers have had to be moved to new positions . |
| 22 | A JUDGE has put off sentencing a 26-year-old sex attacker in order to give the victim , a young mother , an opportunity to express her view on what the punishment should be . |
| 23 | All recalcitrant peasants are to be arrested , and the Presidium of the Smolensk gubispolkom ( the party executive committee ) has put the campaign ‘ on wartime footing ’ . |
| 24 | For Fanon this means that , despite Europe 's crimes , which will not and can not be forgotten , the Third World 's ‘ new history of Man ’ must ‘ have regard to the sometimes prodigious theses which Europe has put forward ’ since ‘ all the elements of a solution to the great problems of humanity have , at different times , existed in European thought ’ ( Wretched of the Earth , 253 — 4 ) . |
| 25 | As one authority has put it , ‘ competition for air routes , services and traffic was not unlike the ‘ scramble ’ for Africa in the late 19th century' . |
| 26 | Team member Jack Tinsdale said : ‘ John was Bill 's right-hand man and has put a lot of time into the team . |
| 27 | This stance has now been inverted by a puritanical moralising clerisy which virtually polices conduct and enquiry in the name of a postmodern triptych — as Terry Eagleton has put it — of class and race and gender . |
| 28 | Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’ |
| 29 | PERRIER , the French group which has come to epitomise ‘ designer ’ water , has put its soft drinks division up for sale for around £250million . |
| 30 | Mr Holmes a Court has put in a formal offer for the magazine , believed to be between £2 and £3 million . |