He told the men to put down their guns and take up digging tools.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Soldiers were sent to the mining areas to put down the riots.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

"First,to put down the southern rebellion by force of arms.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Soldiers were sent to Pennsylvania to put down the riots.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Officials say the deals have shown to the Pakistani public that while the government has honored its commitment to militant demands for Islamic courts in Malakand, the militants still have not put down their weapons or halted their expansion beyond the Swat valley.

VOA: standard.2009.04.27

And so the man took the box, and put up his forty dollars and sat down to wait.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

When they reached her, the stranger put down his gun and explained his problem to Sylvie's smiling grandmother.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The play was in seventeen eighty-seven, after Taylor helped to put down Shay's rebellion.

VOA: special.2011.05.22

The president asked the solder to put down his rifle and join them.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Why did he put the phone down?" MOTHER: "I'll talk to your father."

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Finally,Arthur Ashe put down his tennis racket and walked off the tennis court.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

The play was in 1787, after Taylor helped to put down Shay's rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

He said he is going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there C if I go there C so I won't put all the fires out."

VOA: special.2009.03.22

We've lost 90 percent of those since 1950. I began,as we surfed down the coast, to see where the resorts were put in.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04