Example sentences of "put on a [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not encouraging pay-for-play , but I think the players should be put on a retainer by the ARFU to provide their services to the union ’ , their skipper says . |
| 2 | The city deme Kollytos put on a play by Sophocles , namely the Oinomaos ( Dem . |
| 3 | The Prince and Princess put on a show by travelling in the same car as Harry starts at his new school . |
| 4 | She added : ‘ He is unable to read a script and has all his lines put on a tape by my 14-year-old niece , Melissa , and learns them from that . ’ |
| 5 | Lords temporal were not mustered as members of the county community : it would never have done for ‘ my lord ’ to be paraded on the village green by some Dogberry and Verges , even a Justice Shallow , made to line up with Mouldy , Shadow , Wart and the rest , to be handed over to a red-nosed , pot-bellied mercenary captain , to be abused and maybe put on a charge by his blustering subordinates , and finally |