Example sentences of "put [adv prt] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put up lengths in the usual way , smoothing with a sponge , then flatten seams with a seam roller . |
| 2 | They put up notices about the project in community centres , general practitioners ' waiting rooms , and clinics ; again not formally advertising posts , but to alert people to the possibility of involvement with the Home Support Project . |
| 3 | And they put back nutrients into the soil , too , both directly and by the decomposition of their dead remains through the agency of creatures such as worms , bacteria , fungi , moulds and so on . |
| 4 | It does n't seem to put off others as the night I visited , the place was heaving . |
| 5 | They are less resistant to innovation than the average person , who tends ( at least initially ) to put up barriers to the adoption and assimilation of new ideas . |
| 6 | However , a report in The Times of April 25 stated that the three main Panthic committees , whose member organizations led the separatist struggle in the state , had decided to put up candidates in the elections . |
| 7 | When children help to put out chairs for the group or distribute mugs of orange juice or bottles of milk , then they need to establish one-to-one correspondence . |
| 8 | But police do not think the arson attack was a deliberate attempt to put out lights in the town so that the looting could take place . |
| 9 | Chief environmental health officer Hugh O'Neill said firemen who had gone to put out fires on the site had been attacked by missile throwers , and now had to be accompanied by police . |
| 10 | Though considered a floating plant , it frequently puts down roots to the tank bottom , and relies on nutrients both from the water and the substratum . |
| 11 | I wished I could turn to stone , or put down roots like the spotted laurel and forever let the adjusting wind tweak and fiddle with my clothes to no purpose . |
| 12 | As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes . |
| 13 | Now , I have put down reports about the finance committee er as it were but I think the responses from the churches and districts sort of calculator will be there , we think that it would seem as though we should only offer the same amount as last year . |
| 14 | During the later Middle Ages the turnover of names had been rapid , but afterwards an important group of middling farmers had put down roots in the parish and had given the community a sense of cohesiveness and continuity . |
| 15 | We took Des with us and put up notices for the other dogs , which were replied to by various other units . ’ |
| 16 | We , the organisers , put up ideas to the executive committee which arrives at a consensus , then we discuss possible titles that are appropriate and short enough to capture the necessary publicity . |
| 17 | In short , there is no reason whatsoever under the rules of the Socialist International why the Labour Party should n't put up candidates against the SDLP in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Later , at a party conference in Lotoka on April 26 , delegates had decided that it should put up candidates in the elections , but should refuse to take up any seats which it won , to underline the rejection of the racially based Constitution . |
| 19 | A dozen men move back and forth , putting up lights in the living-room , shifting all the furniture round , and accepting trays of tea from Felicity in the kitchen . |
| 20 | You could finish putting up shelves in the kitchen while he does the ironing . |
| 21 | Carpenters putting up stands along the procession route . |
| 22 | Phil toppled from a stepladder as he was putting up decorations for the big day — and a spike went right through him . |
| 23 | It is , of course , open to the occupier to regulate the right to possession of lost property by contract with the entrant ; it remains to be seen whether merely putting up notices at the entrance declaring that lost property is to vest in the occupier will be an effective manifestation of the intent to control required by Parker 's case . |
| 24 | Also we went down to the H.Q. at Pages Park where we saw some men putting up photographs of the line in the past . |
| 25 | You 're putting up candles in the wind now . |
| 26 | He had laid newspaper in front of the range and was putting up blackouts at the windows so that , but for the glow of embers in the fire , there was almost total darkness . |
| 27 | They argued that some groups can consciously or unconsciously put up barriers to the public discussion of issues . |
| 28 | France and Italy had also put up candidates for the post . |
| 29 | John Major may be sitting in Downing Street putting out feelers to the 13 Ulster Unionist MPs , while from his house in Ealing Neil Kinnock tries to get Paddy Ashdown to answer the telephone . |
| 30 | ‘ We have , of course , put out feelers to the usual quarters about where the supplies came from , ’ said Milton , ‘ but the chances of finding the source of such a small supply are very slim indeed . ’ |