Example sentences of "put on [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Adrian Griffith ( 34 ) and David Wright ( 26 ) put on 45 for the first wicket , before Barry Metcalf ( 23 not out ) and Steve Wundke ( 33 not out ) saw Chester home .
2 John Clinch ( 83 ) and Paul Harris ( 82 ) put on 170 for the first wicket against Stowmarket , who were skittled out for only 85 thanks to a burst of 4–1–7–5 by Richard Pybus .
3 236 for 2 overnight became 296 for 7 next morning as England bowled themselves back into the game , but Lloyd and Garner put on 83 for the eighth wicket and then Holding and Croft an unbeaten 67 for the tenth as the bowlers tired , enabling Lloyd to declare on 468 .
4 There was no hint that Waringstown would be kept down to such a moderate total when Shane Harrison and Brian Sturgeon put on 46 for the first wicket .
5 With Kallicharran , who made 97 , he put on 303 for the third wicket , with some wonderful strokes all round the wicket that culminated in 36 runs off his last 13 balls before holing out on the boundary .
6 Instonians seemed to have recovered from a false start to their first appearance in the All Ireland tournament when Chris McQuay and Andrew Rose put on 57 for the fifth wicket .
7 It proved to be Gooch 's day ; with Slack he put on 89 for the second wicket in seventeen overs , setting the foundations for the later onslaught .
8 When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were .
9 Kevin Arnott and Alistair Campbell put on 51 for the second wicket before the former was bowled by Maninder for 21 .
10 When the county followed on 179 behind Surrey , he and T.C. O'Brien put on 228 for the first wicket to create a win by 79 runs .
11 Latham and Andrew Jones put on 127 for the second wicket before the opener was run out when his partner failed to respond to a call for a run .
12 We reminisced about Robinson 's batting , which was not exactly the best on the county circuit , but he did have one great moment when he put on 144 for the last wicket with Arnie Sidebottom against Glamorgan at Cardiff .
13 West Indies soon lost their openers , but then Gomes went glory-chasing ; with Richards , he put on 206 for the third wicket and , with Lloyd , 124 for the fifth .
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