Example sentences of "had put " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The White Rabbit had put on his spectacles , but he did not know where to start . |
| 2 | His rather surprising decision to accept the modest living of Little Tuckett had put an end to that . |
| 3 | Over the years , Anne had put up with an awful lot from me and she had now finally decided she could n't take it any more . |
| 4 | Old Donald had put three more peats on the fire . |
| 5 | The McLaggans had put grass halters round the necks of a few of Menzies ' horses ; Cameron rode on one ; from the back in his dark coat he looked like a preacher leading away the faithful to a field communion . |
| 6 | She had been ‘ carried away ’ as Paul had put it . |
| 7 | He had put it on the draining board . |
| 8 | On the other hand the material which Eliot had put into Pound 's hands turned out to be so inchoate that many readers were led to wonder how far the poem as they had it all these years was in any authentic sense Eliot 's at all . |
| 9 | This is not a work of criticism though it contains much criticism along the way , and of the first order — for instance , Pound 's respectful demurrer from the high valuation that Eliot had put on Johnson 's Vanity of Human Wishes . |
| 10 | A late equaliser by Rowan Alexander gave the Greenock side the point after Grant Jenkins 's goal had put the Perth team ahead at half-time . |
| 11 | Shortly before he was due to deliver that speech on Wednesday — a Burkeian lecture on economic growth and greenery — he realised that he had put some of his best lines in the draft for the Prime Minister 's speech . |
| 12 | Handing the credit to Margaret Thatcher , he said Britain had put the single market at the top of the EC agenda and put the torch to ‘ a veritable bonfire of petty obstacles and niggling controls ’ . |
| 13 | Allen 's success was noted by Terry Yorath , the Wales manager , who also commented favourably on Mark Bowen , who notched the 88th-minute consolation goal after Graeme Rutjes and Johnny Bosman had put The Netherlands two goals up . |
| 14 | The Commando who had put the bomb into the mortar looked across at the Trog , shook his head and said slowly , ‘ It 's ‘ species ' ’ you silly bastard . |
| 15 | I felt a strong feeling of nausea as I realised that I had put my hand through the chest of a dead British soldier that could have been lying in the ditch for several days . |
| 16 | The end of the Civil War , the transition to khozraschet , and its inability to use advertisements , had put all the military press in jeopardy . |
| 17 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 18 | Yet Clark had known all along of the military preparations ‘ Musketeer I ’ and ‘ Musketeer II ’ and had been dismayed when Dulles seemed to have aborted them with his Suez Canal Users Club ; and after the Anglo-French meeting in London in September he had put out ‘ a dull communiqué , and no one has the least idea of what big things were abroad' . |
| 19 | Eliot was fascinated by the idea which Cornford had put forward ‘ in ‘ The Origin of Attic Comedy ’ , [ that ] this [ medicine-man ] Doctor may be identical with the Doctor who is called in to assist Punch after he has been thrown by his horse' . |
| 20 | If she was nervous it remained hidden and in a few minutes she had put each of the sisters completely at ease , their shame and apprehension gone . |
| 21 | Rose had noticed this and she had put it down to the awe and respect in which the man she so loved was held , and she was loath to see differently now . |
| 22 | Before he had put his beads away he was in search of pen and paper and spent till late writing to Maggie . |
| 23 | Such an innocent river , for all that it knew a secret , for all that one of its stones had put a man out of sight of the sunset ! |
| 24 | The house was fall of memories ; but even to call them memories was to imply that Jack had put them behind him ; and he had not . |
| 25 | With her friends , Jacqui McLennan and Freddie Robins , Ingrid had put together a collection of felted designs . |
| 26 | The tabloids seemed hell-bent on knocking Diana off the pedestal they had put her on , determined to prove , or invent if necessary , that she had a roving eye . |
| 27 | Vincent had put in a request to visit her and had been refused . |
| 28 | Arty opened his eyes slowly and inclined his head towards a notice on the door — a notice he had put there himself . |
| 29 | Jack Carbery had put on his blue serge suit for the occasion and sat in the middle of a few friends , his collar stud gleaming , and the apple in his throat bobbing about like a cork on water as he drank . |
| 30 | He had put on weight . |