Example sentences of "have put " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would like to thank you and your Team for all the effort and resources you have put into providing a home care service for our patients . |
| 2 | I have put away my brushes for ever , he said . |
| 3 | A only relates to B because I have put them there . |
| 4 | The reason destroying it now would be no solution , he wrote , is that what sickens me is not the object itself but the time and thought I have put into it . |
| 5 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 6 | But masked first-person narrative turns out to be deflected stream of consciousness — ‘ He was not really afraid ’ will only transpose into ‘ I 'm not really afraid ’ flitting through his head as he passes the landlady 's open kitchen door — so that the past tense collapses into the present , and we find we have put our finger on something pertinent to the novel 's urgency and attack and ( to borrow Andrew Forge 's ugly but useful key-term for late Monet ) its frontality . |
| 7 | City analysts have put a price tag of as much as £60m on Hargreaves and some potential bidders , including the Irish group CRH , have intimated that the business would be worth more to an existing player in the market than a newcomer . |
| 8 | The doubt is really whether Western companies have put a sufficiently high price on the information they are providing . |
| 9 | ‘ Tory laws have put Britain in the dock alongside Chile and Korea and all those nasty dictatorships that everybody here despises , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Flying Pickets Veterans of the alternative circuit , a capella one-and-a-bit hit wonders who have put their signatures to show themes ( remember the accompaniment to the floating condoms in Porterhouse Blue ? ) , here with a show of sketch-like songs loosely based on the theme of ‘ work ’ . |
| 11 | It is for this reason the UK accountancy bodies have put forward the idea of a European accounting standards body in the hope of persuading Brussels to toe the IASC line . |
| 12 | But it is publicly acknowledged that these numbers , which represent people who have put themselves forward for testing , are underestimates . |
| 13 | There are various manifestos : many of the hunger strikers have put up their own , alongside Angela Kunze 's . |
| 14 | From the journalist 's position , any sign that you have put some thought into your music , your look or your lyrics , is welcome . |
| 15 | Below us rows of lads have put their winklepickers up on the backs of the seats , their feet crossed at the ankles , perching like a flock of shiny blackbirds with pointed wings . |
| 16 | ‘ All sorts of people have helped : The Rural Development Commission has lent us £10,000 to top up what we raised ; all the retired , trainee and working accountants , lawyers , journalists and businessmen in the village have put in hours of voluntary work , and our grocery wholesaler Pharaoh Quirke has given us a new fascia board . ’ |
| 17 | Thanks largely to our supporters around the world , we in UNICEF have put everything we can into our worldwide immunisation programme over the past few years . |
| 18 | Like Labour in 1979 , the Conservatives have put military ambulances on standby . |
| 19 | The consultants calculate that ministers have put forward £250 million for the shake-up . |
| 20 | Of his modest Welsh Ring cycle he said , ‘ I aimed to strip away all the burdens that philosophers have put on everybody 's shoulders about the Ring , and take a very fresh , sensuous look at it . ’ |
| 21 | Sally explains : ‘ I designed a cropped pin-stripe jacket which I thought I would sequin but it was too heavy , so I have put bright , luminous shiny pink and purple braiding on to a man 's pin-stripe suit material . |
| 22 | Both went to art school : neither needed art school to learn how to do the work they have put up in the Hayward . |
| 23 | South Manchester health district : ‘ We have put everything we possibly can into this case . |
| 24 | So they have put on a Christmas show that runs until the end of January , which while still being very different from anything else in the Midlands this Christmas , should entice a new audience into the theatre . |
| 25 | All sorts of people since then have speculated on how the Arts Lab started , and various different books and publications about Bowie 's career have put it in all sorts of different context , but that is how it happened . |
| 26 | Professional investors have put at least $5 billion to work on the short side of the market . |
| 27 | Even rival German firms have put aside their differences to jump to Continental 's defence . |
| 28 | Most of the 1,000 issuers of junk bonds have put the money they have raised to good , and sometimes brilliant , use . |
| 29 | Wander round Colorado in the summer , from international conference to music festival , and it quickly becomes clear how much effort the resorts have put into making themselves year-round destinations . |
| 30 | The miners now on strike have put the closing of the remaining Chernobyl reactors high on their list of demands . |