Example sentences of "[adv] put [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not put on a tape of Vivaldi . |
| 2 | GM did not put in a counterbid , as it considered that the company was being overvalued . |
| 3 | You can overcome the problem of " garbage " by reserving enough memory for the longest string you will ever put into a variable before you use it . |
| 4 | ‘ Shall we ever put on a play again , do you think ? ’ |
| 5 | In Vietnam , according to his chaplain , he would always put on a crucifix before he went into battle . |
| 6 | Remember that you can always put on a cassette and get a bit of dancing going informally . |
| 7 | As my hair turns grey and falls out I must also put in a plug for senior sailors with earlier retirement |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm surprised she did n't put in a gold locket or something , or a precious necklace that could be traced back to royalty , or the aristocracy , or the Sultan of Kashmir , or the Pope . ’ |
| 9 | Hermit crabs , however , do not simply put on a shell as if it were a new pullover ; they show two remarkable adaptations to the problems of ‘ wearing ’ the shells of alien snails . |
| 10 | The Government did however put in a £200 million investment programme over a four-year period ( the previous annual average , apart from one missile development programme , had been £5 million ) . |
| 11 | You can either put in a slug trap , which is a jar filled with beer and partly buried in the compost , or slug pellets . |
| 12 | The lottery business is basically a very very small business with limited competition , and for a state the size of California it makes it very difficult to have large competition because only a certain number of companies can actually put in a system of this size . |