verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
holed...putt
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He holed the putt with ease.
putting a gloss on
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The minister was accused of putting a gloss on the government’s poor performance.
putting green
putting up posters
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A team of volunteers were putting up posters .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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It's home, and the film centre and restaurant are his rather grand way of putting down some roots.
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The first time in the forest Hansel used his intelligence appropriately by putting down white pebbles to mark the path home.
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Either Quinn knew just what he was doing or he was going to provoke the kidnapper into putting down the phone.
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Polly said to them, putting down her fork.
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But the minute I went away reviewers started putting down films I loved and viceversa.
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Emily unlocked the door and moved into the cool of the hallway, putting down her bag gratefully.
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While he was putting down the plates, Loretta made up her mind.
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They were areas with a shifting working-class population, and ideal for putting down bohemian roots.
forward
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Labour would again be putting forward its 1992 manifesto plan for a training investment contribution, said Mr McLeish.
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First, he or she may be responsible for putting forward new legislation.
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A 50% student for instance will think twice before putting forward one of his ideas for discussion with a group of 60% students.
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It is putting forward the best possible case for the prison service.
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They will start putting forward a more balanced picture next Sunday.
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Those putting forward a project which is turned down have no appeal.
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However, they had called the egm and were putting forward a resolution which would remove four of their opponents from office.
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I do not myself think that this alternative is correct, but it would be worth putting forward in court.
off
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The council would spend £10m more than Governments limits, putting off the need for drastic cuts.
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Then he was putting off telling Spider.
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It is a time when people, putting off the reality of Monday morning, don't want to be disturbed.
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People are alarmed that women are putting off marriage longer and longer.
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The reader's time and money would be better spent reading that classic novel you have been putting off for years.
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M., putting off the ceremonial visit to the following morning.
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We found the locals don't like to talk about it for fear of putting off money-spinning tourists.
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I thanked Arthur again, even though I knew it meant putting off the Army physical to another time.
out
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The development control sub-committee gave planning permission and will now begin putting out and accepting tenders for the work.
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Not that many years ago, putting out a newspaper was not that exact.
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He moved over and putting out his hand found the switch of the bedside light.
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Bethany said softly, putting out the cigarette.
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It suits the firm which has cut costs by firing regular employees and putting out work to people like her.
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The fifth morning after Hermes' visit found Odysseus putting out to sea before a fair wind over quiet waters.
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A great many people are involved in putting out a newspaper.
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She kept putting out and putting out and nothing was coming in.
together
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Recognising an opportunity area is not quite the same as putting together a specific concept and a plan of operating.
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They rose to the bait and decided they needed to prove a point, putting together their nine-piece Bootsy Collins-featuring live band.
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In fact, Boeino borrowed frorn everyone it could in putting together its new approach.
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Some people think you just play records, when in fact you're putting together a whole programme.
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This is done by putting together sequence after sequence, then dubbing on to a master tape.
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Nor is it the selecting and putting together of parts of apparently diverse lessons from the past.
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They are adept at arranging huge loans, underwriting stock offerings and putting together multinational mergers.
up
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Don't strain your eyes by putting up with poor lighting.
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Instead of dragging everything into the open and putting up a fight, I held on in silence.
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After putting up with it for several weeks, she telephoned the plant.
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Companies putting up factories at Subic can import goods for free and pay only a 5 percent tax on gross income.
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Male speaker Besides putting up the boxes we've produced other habitats.
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Looking slightly insulted, she nevertheless left without putting up any fuss.
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I made Joanna respectable by putting up my anchor lantern, made myself a mug of cocoa, and turned in.
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Even your basic beach motel is putting up faux columns.
■ NOUN
arm
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She walked towards the khthons putting her arms up.
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I felt like putting my arms around her right away.
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In the distance she heard another car, and putting up her arms began to run towards it, waving and shouting.
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I observed Bea putting her arm around me with a detached curiosity and listened to the pet names she whispered to me.
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He was for ever putting his arm round surly Arthur and inquiring after the score with a beam on his face.
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So much can be conveyed by putting your arms around some one's shoulders or giving them a kiss.
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You were always too busy putting your arms around Rebecca.
face
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With the way she had carried on smiling, stifling the grief, putting on her brave face to the world?
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Whether in denial or putting on a brave face , the delegates professed to be unperturbed by those numbers.
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She spent the next 18 months putting a brave face on her illness, with lots of loving support from George.
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He pray and putting the powder on face and take out the pop.
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Perhaps some of them are good at putting on a face , saving the grim reality for private moments.
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No one said a word all of us were consciously putting on a brave face .
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He snuffed out the candle and, putting his face over the glass chimney of the lamp, blew out the flame.
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Ellwood crouched down in front of her, putting their faces close together.
foot
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E for elevation, otherwise known as putting your feet up.
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The commissioner still thinks of himself as the boss, capable of putting a foot down here or there.
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I was looking at this, and not at where I was putting my feet .
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That boy needs a lot of teaching, he thought, putting his feet up.
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Just imagine jumping in and putting your feet through it.
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She climbed off reluctantly, leaning against the door, putting her feather-soft foot in his lap.
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Stepping ahead: A North-East chiropody department is putting its best foot forward in a bid for a healthcare award.
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Their prey is kept in a state of constant unease, afraid of putting a foot into a hidden trap.
hand
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This caused some of the other children to titter, quickly putting their hands over their mouths to stifle the sound.
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He became very emotional, started crying and kept putting his hands together in that way of his.
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I quickly declined his offer by shaking my head and putting my hands above my head in mock surrender.
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Cassie caught her breath, putting her hand over her mouth to stop herself from crying out.
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I remember Anne suddenly laughing, which she never does, and putting her hand on my arm.
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Another moaned that Johnny was a little slow putting his hand in pocket.
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She groped vaguely for her handbag, then found that Luke was putting it into her hand .
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This response of putting the hands out and throwing the head back is certainly not a reaction learned during flying training.
head
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Instead of putting his head down and charging, Balshaw chipped and chased.
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He was as cranky as a bad-tempered goat, always putting his head down and charging into things that annoyed him.
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However, as with all fostering schemes, it was seen as more than just a means of putting roofs over heads .
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The young man or woman sings along with the song again again, putting their head back as they do so.
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Some one else putting his head round my door!
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He laughs, too, putting his head back and looking at the ceiling.
idea
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You can elaborate on this sampler idea by putting the words inside another design.
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Then we got the idea of putting a big piece of muslin across the whole ceiling.
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The idea of putting the army on an island is preposterous.
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The idea of putting large numbers of people to sleep struck me at first as being eminently sensible.
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The idea of putting warning labels on drinks packaging is a simplistic and ineffective attempt to resolve a complex issue.
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Bush doesn't like the idea of putting any conditions on tax cuts.
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Somehow I had picked up the idea that putting the patient in a tub of hot water sometimes had the desired effect.
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If I were a Brown lackey, I would have applauded his idea of putting global-positioning navigation systems on Muni buses.
money
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An excellent means of putting money in the pockets of the poor without burdening taxpayers.
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People are coming back from holiday and putting their money to work.
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Staff can add credit on to their cards by putting money into card machines in the building.
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It leads to a crime: Some one is murdering claimants and putting their insurance money to private use.
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The only way in which that can be addressed sensibly is by putting extra money into the basic state pension.
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The people believed, and many of them were putting money into improving their homes, modernizing their small businesses.
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We are committed to putting money and people into the sort of programmes that take a long time to make.
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Fernando Chico Pardo, a Carso director, says investors could consider putting money in the as-yet-unnamed holding company.
place
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These can not be eliminated without putting something in its place .
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Rather like the steel deal, one company would supply the materials and another the labor for putting them in place .
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We are putting in place new mechanisms to ensure that academic standards are maintained in higher education.
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A waitress appeared, quickly putting water and place settings before them.
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Buck still had to putt and secure second place .
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I like putting community programmes in place , I love youth development.
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The Administration of Justice Act 1982 swept away the remaining ones without putting anything in their place .
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His younger brother Duncan, is a fellow competitor who finished fifth overall, putting him four places ahead.
practice
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At the Board of Trade, Beveridge, with Llewellyn-Smith, gave considerable thought to the problems of putting it into practice .
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Make a habit of putting your AH-HAs into practice as soon as possible alter reading them.
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Work out a personal timetable for putting these thoughts into practice .
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But he came gradually to see its viability and to contemplate ways of putting it into practice .
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Roberto waited for him every morning and they practised putting before playing their practice rounds together.
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R-A-F Hullavington has been putting into practice its motto - Service To Many - for more than half a century.
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But putting the policy into practice may not be easy.
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The theory is always straight forward; putting it into practice is not.
pressure
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If we find them, we can start putting on the pressure to locate the ship.
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Meanwhile, export demand remains poor, putting further pressure on prices.
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Her theory is that a proliferation of culinary gadgets is putting pressure on kitchen storage space.
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Despite a reduction in overheads, however, profits were hit by intense competition putting pressure on margins.
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Eaton said large institutional investors today are putting more pressure on publicly traded companies to increase their returns.
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The ample domestic bean production is putting pressure on prices and the market has eased further over the past week.
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These forces are putting pressure on academic medical centers such as Columbia and its College of Physicians and Surgeons.
risk
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Not only was she putting herself at risk but also her family, by carrying home all sorts of germs.
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Teenagers often consider themselves immortal, and these young people may be putting themselves at great risk .
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They are putting lives at risk , and the ones who pay are us, here at the mercy of the government.
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I wouldn't hesitate to tell an overweight, unfit man that he was putting his health at risk .
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The coal's importers deny they're putting miners jobs at risk .
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Misuse through ignorance can result in your getting lost, flying into controlled airspace, and putting other aircraft at risk .
touch
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Miele make kitchens Miele quality appliances have been putting the finishing touch to kitchens for years.
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You may spot workers putting the finishing touches on the dome.
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They will spend Valentine's Day putting the final touches to their wedding following a whirlwind telephone romance.
way
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It's home, and the film centre and restaurant are his rather grand way of putting down some roots.
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A beautiful boy, dark eyes and hair, with an uncanny way of putting issues in perspective.
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It proved an invaluable way of putting issues on the table and encouraging serious debate.
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Unceremoniously dumped at our door, blushing with shame, would be a better way of putting it.
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What is the best way of putting a message across?
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But he came gradually to see its viability and to contemplate ways of putting it into practice.
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I hope that this will clarify the situation for your readers while in no way putting them off the certified training scheme.
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There were appropriate ways of putting down an old bore.
weight
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He liked to buy their food; he even enjoyed cooking it sometimes, and was putting on a little weight .
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The latter approach appears to be putting more weight on our political system than the system is able to bear.
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She cries a lot and is not putting on weight .
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And when she found she was putting on some weight , she took up swimming regularly.
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A friend has described it as worth putting on weight for.
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She constantly restrained her eating for fear of putting on weight .
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The man increased his pressure, putting all his weight behind the knife arm.
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Furthermore, they're both putting on weight .
■ VERB
begin
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The development control sub-committee gave planning permission and will now begin putting out and accepting tenders for the work.
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Early in the welfare debate, assorted government agencies began putting it about that the teen-age birth rate was dropping.
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While the idea was fresh she began , putting the contents of his drawers into his bag.
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Morris immediately began putting the best possible spin on his predicament.
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About four years ago, Louize's hair started falling out in clumps and she began putting on weight for no reason.
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I go so far as to call the file room and ask them to begin putting together some boxes.
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There was a small sound of assent so Edward began putting clothes in the bureau.
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He opened a plastic bag and began putting things in.
keep
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We have to expect more wastage, can't keep putting it in and out of the fridge, could poison somebody.
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You keep putting your ear to the ground, waiting to hear that Warrior jubilee train.
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She kept putting her hands to her head as though she were in pain.
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Although he was in big trouble three of the five innings he pitched, Kamieniecki kept putting zeroes on the board.
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The Begum doesn't like it there so she keeps putting it off.
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Debi keeps putting Martin off for superficial reasons, or for no reason at all.
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They keep putting her insurance up.
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In the meantime, I had a publishing deal and would just keep putting material in the catalog.
mean
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If x i j is the first basic variable chosen, this means putting .
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Essentially, it meant putting a number of smaller packages headed for the same destination in one large container.
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It means putting weakness on one side, and openly acknowledging the positive worth of the person.
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To move outside the cabin meant putting on oilskins, wet outside and with wet linings.
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That means we can delay putting plans in for the reservoir.
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I thanked Arthur again, even though I knew it meant putting off the Army physical to another time.
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This means putting the software, hardware and data in a practical and reliable configuration.
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Kept Ireland out of the war, but that doesn't mean he's putting himself out for your people.
start
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The opening of the letter A well-written business letter will start by putting its message into context.
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He really started putting it away, every night.
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I decide to do the washing-up before I start putting Mum to bed.
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Out on the floor, with five minutes left and Oregon ahead by fifteen, Jody starts putting in the subs.
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He started by putting his tie on.
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If we find them, we can start putting on the pressure to locate the ship.
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Keep all your printouts in a folder or a binder and start putting together your own guide book and itinerary.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
you're putting me on!
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Seth is moving to Alaska? You're putting me on!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And, as with Favourites, you can organise your Bookmarks by putting them into folders.
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I remember we set about putting together a cabaret show.
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In putting the Collection together, our music editors combed a thousand hit parades to bring you the finest moments in rock'n'roll.
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Kept Ireland out of the war, but that doesn't mean he's putting himself out for your people.
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Mendl wants a clear answer, but I keep putting him off.
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The Raiders had second-and-two at the Charger eight-yard line, putting them within reach of the lead.
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The staff is incapable of putting two beautiful games together.
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Tomalin could resume her normal existence and literary pursuits, putting aside the fortnight of having conscience pricked and self-control tested.