Example sentences of "put [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was five one pound bets that we put on between us , I put two on , my wife put three on , and all mine were place bets , and I got the winner and I got the fourth , and my wife got the second , and the other one of hers lost .
2 But erm I do n't think that the town show perhaps I was I 'm prejudiced to the fact that , that we 'll be losing money rather than making it but it was n't anything like we put on for entertainment !
3 I do n't know how much pressure we put on for the police to get off their butts and do something .
4 Conservative in , three times that for which we put on for and let me remind you again that out of that seventeen pounds , you put eleven on , not us , you put it on .
5 and at the moment he 's living in a hostel where , I do n't know too much about it , where you have clean sheets put on for them
6 ‘ And that filthy deed you put on to another . ’
7 The lads I put on to it had to look behind every one of those bloody paintings for a wall safe .
8 ‘ The four you put on to me .
9 But he he do n't like things put on to him so quickly .
10 put on with it .
11 THE immediate post-Christmas and New Year period is an opportune time to check your weight and count the excess pounds put on after the festive holiday — and a time to count the cost to your health and make a serious attempt to reduce the surplus .
12 The shows put on in Paris at the Salon , and in London at the Royal Academy , were a means of creating sales for artists at a turning point in the history of patronage ; as there developed a middle-class market for literature , so there developed a comparable market for art .
13 Well erm I actually stopped smoking about er , two years ago and was quite surprised at the amount of weight I put on in about five months , which was two stone , which I did n't think I 'd deserved !
14 Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres .
15 A grant from the Theatre Trust should ensure plays put on in the former church now Saltburn 's Community Centre no longer literally bring the house down .
16 It adds a narrative structure to the destructive anarchy of the shows put on by Mark Pauline and Survival Research Laboratories .
17 But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver .
18 Mrs Margery Teasdale , of Guisborough , remembers the operas put on by Tippett , even though she was only seven or eight at the time .
19 A frolic of a different kind was enjoyed by the old folk of St. Catherine 's Church when they were entertained by a shown put on by Dorothy Ralph 's Costessy class in April .
20 Erm you get most of your you know you The amount of weight and height you put on from say , nought to six months and then six months to two months and by the time you 've got to about eight or something .
21 The drives we put on against New Zealand were things that we had worked on and it was very satisfying to see them coming off , not just for the forwards but for the backs as well .
22 ‘ It means it now rests with the international side to put on the same , if not a better kind of performance as we put on against Norway last month .
23 ‘ It means it now rests with the international side to put on the same , if not a better kind of performance as we put on against Norway last month .
24 ‘ What you put down for , you get .
25 put down for the you know for fire precautions and things .
26 At higher temperatures ( ca 500°C ) the linewidths and peaks change , which they put down to disorder as some zinc enters the copper particles to form a dilute brass .
27 At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches .
28 What I and my friends put down to evil witchcraft , my enemies are likely to attribute to incompetence or bad management .
29 It 's all put down to nature . ’
30 We put down at Weston Zoyland , called Deenethorpe and they sent a plane over to collect us ’ .
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