• If something makes you poorly and you are not happy about it, don't just put it down to chance or fate - someone put the bug there and should be held to account.

    BBC: Former Health Minister Edwina Currie quizzed

  • So people were told, you know, you don't have to put any money down, don't worry about it, zero interest.

    WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall Meeting on the Economy

  • "You don't ruin expensive landscaping to put down water-hogging grass so your kids can play on a busy street, " I answer.

    WSJ: Why Spouses Fight When Buying a House

  • They don't have the confidence to put down the money.

    CNN: Transcript of May 'CNN Money Summit: Money & Main St.'

  • "It's like holding a hot cup of coffee that you really want to put down but can't quite yet, " Wager said.

    WSJ: Doctors use brain scans to 'see' and measure pain

  • As the carnival has no real contemporary connection with the Notting Hill or the Caribbean save for a few largely ignored floats, why doesn't Mr Livingstone put his foot down and move the carnival to a more centralized, logistically practical location readily accepted as a space for all Londoners to gather such as Hyde Park!

    BBC: NEWS | Have Your Say | Did you go to Notting Hill Carnival?

  • Mr Deakin doesn't stay long enough in any one place to put down roots: halfway through the book he turns up in southern France, then the Pyrenees.

    ECONOMIST: Trees

  • "It's an accident waiting to happen if this dog isn't put down, " Ms Hogan said.

    BBC: Injured heifer

  • Several are the subjects of motion to regret - which don't actually stop them but put down a marker if problems arise later.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • Now's their chance to see regulations put in place to minimize systemic risk, so that one company doesn't drag down the financial system.

    FORBES

  • And when I didn't get better and was down to about a hundred pounds, they put me in a cell with two other Americans.

    CNN: McCain: Change is coming

  • For example, anyone that's looking to buy a home now, they can't just put zero percent down, they can't put 10 percent down.

    NPR: Reporters Analyze Wall Street's Downward Turn

  • Arthur put that performance down to not losing weight properly, but whether he did or he didn't, it was a terrible performance.

    BBC: Cook warns confident rival Arthur

  • But we all know that didn't happen and I believe this was down to Australia's world class bowlers who put us under a lot of pressure.

    BBC: Paul Collingwood

  • "It's a real bonus for us to be so high up, and that's all down to the hard work that the team have put into this car, I can't thank them enough, " said the 2008 world champion.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • I'd like to say to people look, I'll do it as long as I have the energy to do it and when I don't feel I can put as much into it as you like, then I would want to step down.

    BBC: Breakfast with Frost

  • He didn't direct her, or put her in a pose she hated those anyway, couldn't hold them, preferred to lie down comfortably with a book.

    ECONOMIST: Charis Wilson

  • "Even if someone put a gun to my head and said, 'Ian, shut this down, ' I wouldn't be able to, " he says with a shrug.

    FORBES: A Rebel Without A Copyright

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