Example sentences of "put a [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With acclaim like that , Beatty 's agent immediately put a pricetag of $300,000 a picture on his head — and was getting it .
2 And so if you were to use that at night and then put a bit of lavender on it is really nice .
3 Well I could substitute it , put a bit of parsley in it
4 I get up do me hair , put a bit of make-up on
5 Well obviously I have it wh what I did was I put a bit of hummus in each of their handbags right
6 Yes and put a bit of fertilizer on and on one side , I think that side , you see , they have n't come back as well .
7 Put a bit of kitchen roll on the table .
8 You know ; put a bit of sparkle back in …
9 You put a bit of pressure on its mandible , or lower beak , and if it broke it was a young bird .
10 Okay so ah the next question the remarks anyone looking across at him we put a bit of pressure on them and they take interest .
11 Yeah , put a bit of chalk on the end .
12 now , put a bit of lipstick on
13 Hope you 're better next week Just put a bit of wallpaper up in your bedroom , then you can .
14 So I think we 're getting rather strange signals out of tonight 's budget , on the one hand we have councillor the John Smith clone , although at least put a bit of weight on .
15 Put a bit of light .
16 Yeah , right on the sole and cos we used to take them off the iron and put a bit of leather on and grease the uppers with neat's-foot oil and they were really lovely and warm in the winter .
17 Just , just put a bit of salt on it for me .
18 a few years ago when my sons were teenagers I had some nice dripping and I said , you 've never had bread and dripping and I gave them some , I put a bit of salt on , I said , try this , I loved a bit of med bread and dripping when I was your age .
19 And , I 've just as a basic figure , I mean , they give up to a certain figure o before their hours you put a bit of tax and after that , but er we 've allocated him to work , in the afternoons when I 'm out , they allocate to her , the warehouse , because I ca n't afford any , er , as I say , they repairs a machine , it goes out faulty , and the onus is on me and the company
20 Put a layer of pebbles in a plant pot and then fill it up with healthy damp soil .
21 That 's you open the you know you put a layer of polish on so much and sandpapered it down .
22 Put a bowl of water under the frame .
23 Nearly drowned herself , put a bowl of water down for her
24 If you put a pint of beer out for him he would n't drink it .
25 You took took a bucket of water out , you put a bucket of water in .
26 information , er , they did it on erm , one of the programmes they actually put a bucket of water actually on the equator , I do n't know if you saw it .
27 Put a bucket of food on the ramp at a distance from the horse sufficient to make him put one foot on the ramp .
28 Put a scrap of newspaper on the block or box and lower the strip until the drop is only a few millimetres above the paper .
29 Er er it was like a Molotov co bo cocktail , a thing like that and you put it in the , in the tube and you put a wad of cotton , gun cotton behind it closed the flap at the back onto er just a latch , like a , a door a gate latch which locked it , then fired the cap which fired the gun cotton which sent the well then we we 're trying this out on the waste ground where the , that was then , where the waterworks ' offices are now in Green Lane , well there that was , at that time , that was a glue factory that was the glue factory there ooh .
30 In winter , workmen put a mixture of salt and grit on icy roads to stop cars skidding .
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