Example sentences of "have put " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Human nature being what it is , my guess is that any maid worth her salt would have put a slightly imperfect dish in front of anyone but her master or mistress for the cook 's sake . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You must have put it there by accident , ’ I said . |
| 3 | ‘ What do you mean , I must have put it there , you must have put it there . |
| 4 | ‘ What do you mean , I must have put it there , you must have put it there . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't steal your money , you stupid bitch , you must have put it in the wrong apron . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder . |
| 7 | Someone could have put it away or be using it to sweep up a broken wine glass . |
| 8 | The average builder will probably have put in just a single central pendant light in each room , so we have to add extra lights by plugging them into precious socket outlets ( precious because the builder does n't put enough of these in either ! ) . |
| 9 | A map could have put Pound right , as it can put us right . |
| 10 | The party may have put on a collar and tie but it is still the Labour Party , prone to its old reflexes ( as it reminded us yesterday on defence spending ) , prisoner still of its anachronistic structure , its mind set in 100 years of working-class history . |
| 11 | We should have been shown excerpts from Wasps v Leicester and Gloucester v Bath , not to mention Neath v Bath ; though the niggly Harlequins v Wasps match would have put the indulgent enthusiasm even of Starmer-Smith under some strain . |
| 12 | Years ago people might have put the job first , but not any more . |
| 13 | You would have put £10,000 towards a good cause — but it would only have cost you £6,000 , because you would have saved the rest in tax . |
| 14 | Or , as Augustine might have put it , language is , of its ( fallen ) nature , always potentially perverse . |
| 15 | He ca n't have put it there for effect because he did n't know who was going to be there . |
| 16 | The maths teacher had been , Maggie knew , contemptuous and rude and sexist , but Maggie felt that Phoebe should have put up with it for her sake . |
| 17 | There was no question but that the army , the Lebanese Forces militia , and a whole new wave of volunteers would have put up a desperate resistance . |
| 18 | She may have put a brave face on it . |
| 19 | But John Morgan says : ‘ Dumenil may have put forward some thoughts that might help unit holders , but it needs a lot of thought before it turns into a proposal . |
| 20 | But John Morgan says : ‘ Dumenil may have put forward some thoughts that might help unit holders , but it needs a lot of thought before it turns into a proposal . |
| 21 | Hobbs could have put Bradford 9-8 ahead with his easiest kick of the afternoon , but he struck a post and six minutes later Maskill scored the try which started that late rush of Leeds points . |
| 22 | In other words , the DTI had failed to understand fully its own legal powers with which it could have put pressure on Barlow Clowes . |
| 23 | Being in effect a doll , Blackeyes was as dumb as she was beautiful but I could n't have put it better myself . |
| 24 | Otherwise , the financiers should have put their money elsewhere . |
| 25 | Simon said she should have put her idea into a memo for Bertie . |
| 26 | Once they heard her say , ‘ But Harry , you ca n't keep on — ’ And then she must have put a hand over the mouthpiece , because they did not hear anything else until , suddenly , another voice spoke . |
| 27 | ‘ He told me he was round Madge 's this morning — He might have put them back — in her cardi pocket or somewhere . |
| 28 | He must have put some Cherry Blossom boot polish on it . |
| 29 | Would the magician have put two and two together yet , Mungo wondered ? |
| 30 | If you do not weigh for a year and you eat just an extra 500 calories each day during that time , you will have put on a full 45 lb ( 21.8 kg ) ; rather a nasty shock ! |