put up the money for
Example Sentences
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He said he and the company he and his wife own, Shoreline Diving, put up the money for the search.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023
Nobody in business would put up the money for the starving artist Samuel Morse who had the insane idea that wires on poles could carry messages across the continent.
From US News • Apr. 30, 2016
Wallace put up the money for a food truck, which they bought for $50,000 in New Jersey.
From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2015
Before it became part of Braddock Redux, the Fettermans put up the money for the church next to the mayor’s house, which is popularly called John’s Church.
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2011
Ernest disclosed that he had received a visit from Arthur P. M. Fleming, research director of the British industrial giant Metropolitan-Vickers, and persuaded him to put up the money for a Liverpool cyclotron.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
