put up the money for
Example Sentences
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Elon Musk put up the money for this one.
From Seattle Times • May 14, 2019
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
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
Wright County Egg and Hillandale share suppliers of young chickens and feed, and the DeCoster family put up the money for Hillandale's founder to purchase Ohio Fresh Eggs, the largest operation in that state.
From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2010
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
