Example sentences of "[noun] put on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glared at Hank as he stood by the front door ready to open it for the paper 's representatives , and tried not to scream while these gentlemen put on their boots again . |
| 2 | The deckchairs flapped , the youngsters played on the outfield , the old gentlemen put on the caps and began to leave as Arlott summed up one more day of country cricket . |
| 3 | The miners ' welfare club put on concerts — their only social entertainment — and provides space for a mothers ' and toddlers ' group where there is no nursery . |
| 4 | Mummy put on your coat ? |
| 5 | They won the toss and elected to bat but no one could break the stranglehold put on them by off-spinner and former Test player , Clyde Butts . |
| 6 | I mean you could have a whole new roof put on your house and it would cost about six thousand , seven thousand pounds and |
| 7 | During a seminar on recent advances in reproductive technology , a gynaecologist presenting his latest research put on the screen a slide of a woman 's uterus and said : ‘ This , gentlemen , is the battle ground . ’ |
| 8 | It was all prepared together , the mayonnaise mixed up with it and then the mixtures put in shells and the shells put on plates . ’ |
| 9 | 474 set England a stiff target but the pitch was less malicious than the earlier ones and Gooch and Slack put on 127 for the first wicket . |
| 10 | Three captives put on exhibition by the English adventurer Sebastian Cabot in 1502 were described as " clad in beasts " skins , eating raw meat , and speaking an unintelligible language " . |
| 11 | While capitalist states elsewhere have had to deal with high levels of inflation , balance of payment crises , low productivity and increasing demands put on State expenditure , Britain has had to respond not only to these problems but also to a decline in its manufacturing base : profits from industry have not gone back in sufficient volume to sustain the long-term investment in new technology that Britain has needed . |
| 12 | How much this resulted from Cruickshank 's own approach to maintaining contact and diplomacy with individual people and concerns — he 's more generally credited with being a man for the ‘ big picture ’ — or from the excessive demands put on anyone trying to run and change such a vast and politically sensitive organisation , is open to debate . |
| 13 | A parody of this , a pseudo-democracy , is a situation in which the decision-makers put on a show of consulting those whom their decisions affect when in fact the crucial decisions have already been taken and the policies decided on . |
| 14 | Paccy Moore had said they were two fine ladies when they had gone to have heels put on Benny 's good shoes . |
| 15 | But there has been an additional weight put on the avoidance of strikes in Spain , reflecting a deep concern with social consensus as a prerequisite for the consolidation of democracy . |
| 16 | Labour and Plaid Cymru put on seats , with the nationalists going from three to four by taking Ceredigion and Pembroke North from the Liberal Democrats . |
| 17 | In 1936 , for example , the Museum put on two crucially important exhibitions , on Cubist and Abstract Art , and Fantastic Art , Dada , Surrealism . |
| 18 | I met Agnew very early on as a collector , in fact when the Virginia Museum put on that first exhibition of ‘ Sport and the Horse ’ whose selection committee I headed . |
| 19 | After Mrs Bedworth received a £700 phone bill , she had an electronic bar put on her phone so that anyone making outgoing calls had to dial a code . |
| 20 | We when you say on the bottom , sort of was the bottom put on the side slightly ? |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | The Conservative Conference : Sunday trade reform issue put on ice |
| 23 | The city deme Kollytos put on a play by Sophocles , namely the Oinomaos ( Dem . |
| 24 | The Prince and Princess put on a show by travelling in the same car as Harry starts at his new school . |
| 25 | Independent television producers are benefiting from the requirement put on the BBC and ITV to commission a quarter of all their programmes , excluding the news , from outsiders . |
| 26 | Orimulsion plan put on hold |
| 27 | Instead , two technicians put on special protective clothing , removed a plug and looked inside the pile . |
| 28 | It really is advisable to get supports like these in place as soon as possible before the plants put on much growth — this way you 'll avoid too much root injury when putting them in position and you 'll ensure they 're properly sited without breaking developing stems . |
| 29 | Marital : Many a parental marriage is broken by the amount of focus put on the problems of the child primary sufferer rather than Upon improving the marital relationship and giving each other support in the time of crisis . |
| 30 | Dogs put on ‘ death row ’ |