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