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
Wallace put up the money for a food truck, which they bought for $50,000 in New Jersey.
From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2015
The Philharmonic already put up the money for the charter, expecting to be reimbursed, and is now trying to change the destination.
From New York Times • Sep. 24, 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
