Example sentences of "a [noun] put on " in BNC.
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1 | Should I wait until the highlights have grown out or could I have a colour put on top ? |
2 | He constantly wears a hat decorated with watches and is a local institution — once a week he and a colleague put on a show , with participation encouraged , at Zell am See . |
3 | And when that poor tramp perished out on the roadside one severe winter or spring time the Duke found out where it was and to this very day there 's a little mound and a stone put on it . |
4 | Such a construction put on the word ‘ nuisance ’ however renders the public health legislation ineffective in controlling odours which are neither prejudicial to health nor amount to a nuisance at common law but are still a source of annoyance and it still leaves environmental health officers with the task of assessing whether the odour complained of amounts to a common law nuisance . |
5 | My wife Suzie and I spent some of the cash having an extension put on our house in Willesden and it was also around that time that our children started at private school . |