Example sentences of "put a name " in BNC.

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1 The experimenter need simply put a name to these dimensions , preferably recognisable names such as ‘ aggression ’ , ‘ intelligence ’ or ‘ attachment ’ .
2 This reality , produced by mental effort to capture it , is , as nearly as the shortcomings of human language can put a name to it , the ‘ spiritual ’ reality .
3 An aquarium only became necessary when I could not put a name to even some of the commoner intertidal fish , in the short time that the tide was out .
4 But you 're not sure you can put a name to them .
5 He looked … well , she could n't put a name to how he looked .
6 ‘ Can you put a name to his accomplice ? ’
7 There was a strange sort of hissing in the bracken to the west which I could n't put a name to .
8 The main summits each have a blue plaque attached to the railings at an appropriate point , so that as you walk the pavement , head turned to the south , you can put a name to your favourite mountain .
9 He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on .
10 God was something that you glimpsed in only your rarest moments , and could n't put a name to .
11 I could n't put a name on her treatment of me , no word existed for what she was trying to do , but I knew I was being manipulated under the guise of deference and consideration .
12 The wide chest , the neck like a tree-trunk , the surprisingly small head under its wild thatch of black hair looking like a tomato on a coffin … he could put a name to the creeping figure , and that name was Hrun the Barbarian .
13 Rex made a peculiar face of his own , but I could n't put a name to it .
14 Run from the ambitious young man who was her husband and who was bringing fear into her existence , a horrible fear to which she dare n't put a name and which had sprung into life a month ago .
15 I ca n't put a name to the feeling I have for you .
16 As she watched the door swing gently to a close behind him , Lindsey was left with the crazy feeling that she must have imagined those few seconds when something , even if she could n't put a name to it , had passed between them .
17 With a rush of emotion she could n't put a name to Luce realised that her first instinctive feeling about him had been absolutely right .
18 She could even put a name to his American fiancée .
19 He came back with a brace of fish of a species she could n't put a name to .
20 Viewers were asked if they could put a name to the voice of the kidnapper , a fairly distinctive voice with a softish Yorkshire accent .
21 He had not seen her face , which she kept covered with a scarf , but he thought he could put a name to her .
22 I ca n't put a name to it
23 Alright let me ask you something then , off the top of your head how many closes could you put a name to ?
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