put someone up

1. see put up, def. 5.

Example Sentences

“He is showing Father Time is undefeated. The idea that we’re going to put someone up there that’s almost 80 and there’s going to be no effects from that, we all know that that’s not true,” he said.

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Even though we’ve done it for 12 years, we can’t afford to call a guy to fill in on drums and pay to put someone up in a hotel.

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"Someone from Discogs messaged me last week, informing me that they'd had this sale, and I thought, 'It's a wind-up, one of my mates must've must have put someone up to something' - because it just seemed farcical," he explains.

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Levin added that out of the county's some 600 confirmed coronavirus cases, "only in very, very unusual circumstances, we’ve had to put someone up in a hotel or motel and this was for reasons which have nothing to do with your choice of staying in your household."

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“It was so completely out of the blue, I thought my husband had put someone up to it, that it was a joke, so I ended the call,” she says, laughing.

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