Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] put on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humming to himself , he went back into the bedroom and put on a pair of grey corduroy trousers , a red shirt and a bright turquoise jumper , stained with food . |
| 2 | He turned off the main light switch and put on the bedside lamp , and against the lamp he propped an old brown photograph . |
| 3 | At the counter the elderly lady took off her pinafore and put on her coat . |
| 4 | Crilly turns off the telly and puts on a Billie Holiday record . |
| 5 | Eva 's old friend Shadwell was starting to make his way as a theatre director , working as an assistant at the Royal Shakespeare Company , running workshops on Beckett and putting on plays by Artaud and new writers at fringe venues . |
| 6 | But he criticised at greater length those university extra-mural departments which had expanded since the war through bypassing the WEA and putting on their own programmes of courses , courses with popular appeal to the already well-educated and.of a quality below that traditionally associated with universities . |
| 7 | While redundancy rights can sometimes arise in the context of men being laid off from work or put on short time , in the case of a business executive , redundancy almost always involves a dismissal . |
| 8 | You can pop under the bar and put on her cavesson and/or bridle safely . |
| 9 | Instead of saying , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing , ’ they might rush to the wardrobe and put on a T-shirt that says the same thing . |
| 10 | I hang my clothes in the wardrobe and put on the plastic gown . |
| 11 | THE Government last night moved to avert a threatened mass exodus of dentists from the NHS and put on ice plans to cut fees paid to them for dental work . |
| 12 | I went right down to the sea 's edge , but the water was too cold for pleasure , so I retreated to the dry level and sat down to brush the sand off my feet and put on my shoes again . |
| 13 | I suppose people have got used to bringing me their queries , to some extent , " said Richard , going into their cabin to take off his black shoes and put on a pair of red leather slippers , which , like all his other clothes , never seemed to wear out . |
| 14 | Dip your fingers into the paste and run it around the rim of the dish and put on the lid . |
| 15 | He prepared himself to meet the Mahatma on the basis of ‘ personal appeal and conviction ’ , taking to heart the advice of V.S.S. Sastri , who was acting as intermediary , that Gandhi was ‘ like a woman ; you have got to win him ; therefore before you see him , perform all your ablutions , say all your prayers and put on your deepest spiritual robes ’ . |
| 16 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 17 | Then prime and undercoat the bare wood and put on one top coat to finish the job . |
| 18 | ‘ Or would be if you had white hair and put on a bit of weight . |
| 19 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 20 | The shower was wonderfully soothing and afterwards she spent a long time drying her hair and putting on her make-up . |
| 21 | Hope had changed his cravat and put on his best black coat , excellently cut . |
| 22 | Last week , her and Samantha went back to the hotelroom and put on a show for me . |
| 23 | The organisers of Dublin 's year are keen not only to promote all things Irish but also make a European stand and put on exhibitions of interest to the whole community . |
| 24 | I went through to the kitchen and put on the kettle and made a tray ready . |
| 25 | Having survived a financial crisis in the early 1980s , thanks to support from the banks and from a staff prepared to agree to a voluntary wage freeze , the paper is now making money and putting on readers , so why has the management now decided to modernise the title ? |
| 26 | Clive Smott ( 59 ) was formerly with Princess Eugene Road Garage Reserves and has agreed to come out of retirement and put on his boots for the first time in three years . |
| 27 | Gooch became the only player to score a fifty in the match and put on 95 for the first wicket with Boycott , but when the fifth wicket fell just before tea they were only 72 ahead and could still have lost . |
| 28 | I relished the moment during a rehearsal once when Mel Brooks suddenly boomed at the researcher , ‘ Judith — go to my dressing-room and put on that thing I bought you ! ’ |
| 29 | They observed holy days and rules of diet and put on black hats and went to the Synagogue . |
| 30 | This operation was tricky because there was the little matter of taking off my trousers and putting on my shorts . |