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
A company called Sphere Media put up the money for a sizzle reel, which convinced the Canadian Broadcasting Company to order the series.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2022
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
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
