1.   But British officials yesterday put at the top of the agenda the personal relationship between the two men, how the two will get on face to face.

2.   Four steps backwards -- another curtsey and off to the other side where officials put the medal in a box and took back the hook!

3.   Another official put a best-face on a deteriorating situation that came after so much work.

4.   Angered at being pre-empted, government officials put that boy under house arrest and chose another, but his legitimacy has not been widely accepted.

5.   Another White House official put it less diplomatically.

6.   As one U.S. official put it to us, there was no dramatic breakthrough, but also there were no dramatic blowups.

7.   As one senior official put it, America was trying to give the Chinese time to let things cool down.

8.   As one union official put it, the waiting would be over and the players could find out whether a deal could be struck.

9.   Because the center has no air-conditioned building, officials have put July programs, such as hikes, on hold.

10.   After a three-way battle over the New Jersey Lottery contract, state officials put the contract back out to bid.