Example sentences of "[to-vb] put a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Carol and husband Shaun , of Wombwell , South Yorks , are searching the world for an eye surgeon prepared to try to put a smile on Adam 's face . |
| 2 | They 've been calling us cheats , but I had to call on our manager to try to put a stop to some of their own little tricks at Headingley . |
| 3 | Before going he had told us that firstly , all his carp had been caught on sweetcorn and bread and although fishing with boilies on one rod all week he had been able to get a take , in his words they just did not seem to eat them ; secondly , although there were plenty of carp on the surface they did not seem the least bit interested in floaters , and thirdly he was at a loss to know what one needed to do to put a cat on the bank . |
| 4 | ‘ They have to be wondering what they 've got to do to put a lid on the rumours . ’ |
| 5 | So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that . |
| 6 | So the bet is that the prime minister now has two years — with luck , much calmer than the past one — to start putting a programme into law , followed by another year to sell it to the people in the run-up to re-election . |
| 7 | But I 'd had my fill of merrymaking and decided to stay put a while until my headache eased . |
| 8 | Children and , later , teenagers have to learn to put a brake on their impulses , to tame their desires . |
| 9 | After all , even if she could hardly bear to face another row , she was going to have to put a stop to all this nonsense , and as soon as possible . |
| 10 | And we 'd dredge 'em up and they and they used to pick 'em up on a bucket , go in there , pick 'em on a bucket and of course instead of them going over , the tumbler , into the harbour , we used to have to put a chain round and 'em off , cos if not they 'd have gone over them , tumbler and damaged the chute . |
| 11 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |
| 12 | Anyway , we seem to have put a spoke in Fouché 's wheel this time , with some assistance from Fedorov and the Grand Army . ’ |
| 13 | As he raised a curious eyebrow she elaborated with satisfaction , ‘ I can think of someone far more likely to have put a torch to G.W. Fashions than myself . ’ |
| 14 | The bastard smiled evilly at me as if he would have loved to have put a noose round my neck and had me swinging on a branch of the overhanging elm tree . |
| 15 | And that 's after she 's supposed to have put a curse on him ! |
| 16 | He would have liked to have put a hand on her shoulder now to comfort her . |
| 17 | Mother needed to be reassured that it would be all right to stop putting a nappy on Susan and to talk to her about doing her ‘ poo ’ in the lavatory . |