Example sentences of "[was/were] put on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Meanwhile Welsh international Mark Titley and Newbridge wing Alun Harries were putting on a show for the selectors at the Bridgend Sevens in helping their invitation team ‘ The Welshmen ’ ( management includes Messrs. Ring and Webb ) to victory 22–16 against Llanharan in the Final .
2 ‘ Nor was it a high risk situation from my point of view , because for these were tried and tested individuals we were putting on the field .
3 After six weeks at Hispaniola , Standidge and his companions were put on a sloop destined for Rhode Island .
4 When clothes were put on a kouros the forward step made for play between stuff and limb ; the forward step and skirt pulled aside were combined in the creation , in the second half of the century , of a new type almost as regular as the kouros and known to us as kore , girl .
5 TWO youngsters who were strangled after warnings that they could be at risk were put on a council child protection register in June , it was revealed yesterday .
6 Next day their possessions were put on a waggon and taken to Kingsbere .
7 Those admitted to Belgium were put on a train whose doors were locked and windows nailed shut ; they were told that such measures were necessary for their own protection .
8 In the past , many governors who fell out with the Bermudians were put on a boat and sent back to London .
9 I found this out at Dagenham , when I worked at Fords , the supply lorries used to come through the day and through the night with articles made in other factories , including bodies and wheels and these were put on the assembly line and routed through Fords to be assembled .
10 In March 1991 both children were put on the child protection register , E. because of physical abuse and C. because of suspicion of physical abuse .
11 But no treatment was forthcoming as 10 million were put on the dole , two million on food stamps and hundreds of thousands out on the streets .
12 Rand found that some firms were even trying to avoid bad publicity by cleaning up sites before they were put on the Superfund list .
13 And h Well , no , they were put on the wagons actually .
14 It is not uncommon to find the spaces still blank in early books , the scribe not having arrived before the books were put on the market .
15 A bitter and complex dispute was decided by the crown jurists in the interests of the foreros ( 1763 ) , and when the entailed lands of the nobility and the church estates were put on the market by the liberal legislation of the nineteenth century they purchased their foros and became the outright owners of land they had rented ; they became foristas .
16 ICI 's Winnington Lane laboratories in Northwich , were put on the market earlier this year .
17 ‘ The potted shrimps were put on the table by the parlourmaid immediately before the guests entered the dining-room , ’ said Milsom .
18 It makes me want to roll up my sleeves , ’ McQuaid said in praise and plain enjoyment at the prospect of it as the plates were put on the table .
19 Bowls of the clear chicken soup they loved were put on the table .
20 The sheets , etc. were put on the table with the dolls , and an explanation given .
21 The cakes and the presents were put on the table , then the children hid in the other room when they heard Perks coming home from work .
22 Yes , Chairman , can I say that erm , when the b the budget 's in the process of formulation and we 're discussing the question of balances and reserves and how they should be marked for the immediate future , particularly in regard to the way that er , reorganization may take place at police authorities in the very near future , and also those of us who are on this , on , on other committees who 've had experience in , and the same sort of thing happening in further education for instance , where immediately the assets , before even the regulations were put on the table , the assets of all these things were , all these er , erm , coll the further education colleges were frozen so we could n't do anything with them at all as an Authority , and er , actually many of them were taken from us without er , without any question at all .
23 They were put on the sink and you washed them .
24 Various dazibao were put on the Xidan wall , which became a public noticeboard .
25 More patients with various illnesses were put on the diet , and good results were reported .
26 For the third time this season Cheadle were put on the rack but they mustered their strength in the final quarter to open up a 14–10 lead .
27 If you were put on the rack , you were pinned with your back to the buttress — two boys , one on each side took your arms , put one foot up on the edge of the buttress and pulled — it was painful .
28 Miss Asia organiser Amarjit Sidhu — the man responsible for the UK Asian pop awards — said the aim was to put on a family show where girls would have a chance to shine .
29 She was putting on an act and laughing a lot . ’
30 I pretended it was Annie 's hair we was putting on the tree , and I called her a little angel , but she got upset about that , so I stopped .
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