Example sentences of "put [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , they simply put together a series of guidelines , concerned with scale , height and the street network between the buildings , which amounted to two sheets of paper that they sent to the developer . |
| 2 | Start-up costs were almost $3 million , and to raise the cash De Niro put together a group of 23 investors , including celebrity chums like Bill Murray , Sean Penn , Christopher Walken and Mikhail Baryshnikov . |
| 3 | Terry was , originally at least , a wing-half who had captured the eye of manager Cyril Spiers , and , after a season ( 1955–56 ) of coming to maturity and settling down to the demands of League football , he put together a run of 214 consecutive League appearances ( 234 with major Cup competitions ) which was a club record at the time and has only once been exceeded by the great John Jackson . |
| 4 | He swiftly put together a package that saved the truncated XIIIth Games . |
| 5 | Around 1985 , Otis put together a band called The Dance Kings , whose big break came in 1987 , when they supported Gary Glitter at the Albert Hall . |
| 6 | Only four minutes into the first match against the New Zealand XV at Rugby Park in Hamilton the England ‘ B ’ side put together a scoring movement which had the New Zealand purists purring and suggested that England ‘ B ’ had gained much from their tour . |
| 7 | He went to a good local school , where at 16 he put together a weekly ‘ radio ’ programme on the loudspeakers , and then read International Politics at the University of the West Indies before moving into local radio and TV . |
| 8 | Stewart 's son Alec and captain Graham Gooch put together a stand of 98 , then Robin Smith , whose international career has flourished under Stewart , and Graeme Hick , a Stewart protege , completed England 's innings with a partnership of 96 . |
| 9 | Ahead of the appointment of Gerstner , Smith put together a report that listed 10 key things that the new man at IBM should do , and his report has been picked up by Barron 's magazine . |
| 10 | Yet between 1933 and 1942 J. Arthur Rank put together a vertically-integrated film empire that was the nearest Britain ever came to emulating the great Hollywood studios . |
| 11 | After the failure of the 1754 conference Braddock had been appointed to the newly-created post of commander-in-chief in America , and he rapidly put together a force which marched north-west through the area Washington had been surveying towards Fort Duquesne , just to the south of Lake Erie . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , when the franchise for the London area came up he put together a big consortium with him as chairman , promising a lot of money and a lot of telly . |
| 13 | We also put together a two day programme , hosted by key NGOs , to show Ms de Jonghe some of the major EC related environmental issues affecting Wales . |
| 14 | Quickly she put together a few sandwiches and , suitably dressed for walking , waited impatiently as they chugged slowly towards their planned point of departure . |
| 15 | SONYA Cairns put together a series of complicated moves today to clinch the Northern Ireland senior gymnastics championship at the Salto Gym . |
| 16 | In a ramshackle sort of way , we actually put together a few decent tunes , though as is always the case with truck bands , or marching bands for that matter , quality loses out to volume . |
| 17 | Towards the end of 1957 the London embassy put together a relatively encouraging report . |
| 18 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 19 | Ideally IXI would like to see OSF put together an extended application programming interface that would allow other technologies and applications to be brought in . |
| 20 | In the course of the 1840s the young radical put together an informal association of disaffected contemporaries whose ranks , at one time or another , included the novelist Dostoevsky , the satirist and future provincial governor Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , the future panslav Nikolai Danilevskii , Vladimir Miliutin ( a brother of the man who reformed St Petersburg 's municipal administration in 1846 ) , Valerian Maikov ( brother of a distinguished lyric poet ) and Nikolai Speshnev , who turned out to be the most extreme member of the company but was also " the only one … to lead the life of a leisured gentleman " . |
| 21 | He soldiered manfully through the salmon soufflé and the beef Wellington while Lewis on the lady 's other side put away a tumbler full of vodka poured from a half-bottle in his pocket . |
| 22 | During a lunch break I sat with him in a village pub where he put away a few pints . |
| 23 | He put aside a newspaper he 'd been going to read and jumped out of his cab . |
| 24 | What they had told me put quite a different complexion on the ‘ mystery ’ . |
| 25 | We stayed in a dormitory that was full of couples with noisy small children , and it put quite a strain on our marriage . |
| 26 | I therefore put quite a lot of effort into trying to get rid of this embarrassing effect . |
| 27 | put forward a scheme to lay a new spur from the Barrow Hill to Seymour line just north of Staveley Town . |
| 28 | The infuriated Abbot put forward a test case by sending a monk with a wagonload of corn across the bridge . |
| 29 | When pressed for a favourable reply the pontiff put forward a set of propositions which would have to be accepted by Napoleon before the ceremony could take place . |
| 30 | In his Politics Plato put forward a myth of cyclical change in which the creator imparts rotation to the universe and keeps it under his rule until , at the end of an era , he releases control . |