Example sentences of "put [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put on the other record , save Pergolesi for later when surely they 'd be alone . |
| 2 | As Thurlow sums him up , ‘ in everyday life he was a small insignificant man in an ordinary suit … but take off the uniform of the city solicitor and put on the running singlet and the track shoes and the transformation was amazing ’ . |
| 3 | Ken Bates , the Chelsea chairman , had been given until tomorrow to pay £22.85 million to Cabra Estates , the property company who are Stamford Bridge 's landlords , as the independent valuation put on the ground . |
| 4 | Although it had been obscured by the emphasis put on the military and diplomatic struggles within the Arab world and in the international arena ever since 1967 , the centrality of the people under occupation in the national struggle could no longer be disregarded . |
| 5 | ‘ Blow them out , Breeze , and put on the light . ’ |
| 6 | She put on the light . |
| 7 | Soon afterwards the headman came out of the inner room , carrying a plate of rice grains which he put on the ground beside him . |
| 8 | Everyone put on the whole uniform including the grey raincoat on top , and I put on my raincoat also , I packed Tommy 's spare garments and my own clothes into the holdall , and was ready . |
| 9 | The show is organised by the same people who put on the Clothes Show and will have stands and information about all kinds of pet animals . |
| 10 | When Martha was ready for home , she put on the pink bodice and Elizabeth dressed her hair . |
| 11 | I also put on the real Sperzel locking tuning pegs as opposed to the fake ones that Fender are making now . |
| 12 | Flowered Up 's co-manager Terry stars in Rude Boy as a wayward yoof put on the straight and narrow by Joe . |
| 13 | The duchess put on the blindfold as she visited an orphanage in Kochedwice , Poland , on a visit for British charity Angels International yesterday . |
| 14 | Kicking back the covers , I let my feet touch the carpet , put on the white and blue striped kaftan which my journalist daughter had made for me and walked to the window overlooking the central court . |
| 15 | Paul says , ‘ Put off your old self , put on the new ’ ( vv. 22,24 ) . |
| 16 | The officers , aged 19 and 20 , put on the fancy dress for a last night party at a camp for the disabled . |
| 17 | Everyone knows there is a quality difference between name brand personal computers and generic machines but the premium put on the famous products has become very small indeed . |
| 18 | It was getting dark so he pulled the curtains and put on the overhead light . |
| 19 | Like the effect of programme scheduling on TV audience sizes , a story put on the front page was much more likely to be read than something buried inside , and ‘ page traffic ’ figures show slightly higher noting of items on right-hand than left-hand pages . |
| 20 | Hick at No. 3 is encouragement to the bowlers and deflation for his fellow-batsmen : hence the pressure put on the middle order in the past two years . |
| 21 | The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume . |
| 22 | " Scald a sufficient quantity of fruit , and pulp it through a sieve , add sugar agreeable to taste , make a thick layer of this at the bottom of your dish : mix a pint of milk , a pint of cream , and the yolks of two eggs : scald it over the fire , observing to stir it : add a small quantity of sugar , and let it get cold : then lay it over the apples or gooseberries with a spoon , and put on the whole a whip [ a syllabub ] made the day before . |
| 23 | Bourdieu 's own analysis of politics , however , stresses rather the division between the ‘ knows ’ and the ‘ do n't knows ’ , in relation to the pressure put on the general public to have an informed opinion on often very distant issues ( 1984 : 397–465 ) . |
| 24 | They were shown into cubicles with inadequate curtains , where they were told to strip completely and put on the clean towelling gowns in there . |
| 25 | Within a moment of her arrival St Ives put on the rimless spectacles he detested , though usually he preferred to squint blindly down at the book rather than be seen in them . |
| 26 | She heard the rattle of the curtain rings as the blackouts were pulled across , and then the click of the switch on the standard lamp as Bella put on the light . |
| 27 | In her room , Belinda put on the dress with an uncertain frown . |
| 28 | At five minutes to five , Shirley , the typist who had been helping Ianthe to file some cards , covered up her typewriter , put on the black imitation leather coat she had just bought , and hurried away singing . |
| 29 | She put on the black and white dress , hesitating a moment as she looked at herself and thought , it 's too smart . |
| 30 | ‘ Watch me , ’ said Amiss , as at high speed he put on the clothes Pooley had just brought him . |