Example sentences of "[adv] put [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So put your cursor on the I . |
| 2 | Right , but the way you 're describing the process it seems I get an image of someone gently putting his hand on the collar |
| 3 | The year she died Sir Walter Raleigh was in South America , on his last ill-fated search for Eldorado : he had , like many of his contemporaries , quite literally put his life on the line to find this worldly paradise . |
| 4 | I 'd already put my life on the line by marrying you when I thought you were in love with Radcliffe . |
| 5 | The room had one other chair , a red velvet-covered rocker , having massive springs and I well remember how , when sitting on this on one occasion , absent-mindedly put my hand on the bottom leg . |
| 6 | What about just putting his weapon on the ground ? |
| 7 | I 've just put my house on the market in York I 've chosen the if erm that 's that 's you know the whole taking the whole scene into consideration , but if I was in Bournemouth for instance and buying a house in York and I said I phone three or four estates agents and said , Look please send me information through the post . |
| 8 | ‘ And do you usually put your lunch on the front of your shirt , Nigel ? |
| 9 | Put at its simplest , it was jealous suspicion , for when she had looked through Barbs 's windows she had seen Memet 's straw hat sitting on the sill : he always put his hat on the window-sill . |
| 10 | " You still put your money on the evenings , though . " |
| 11 | But I took the insole out put her foot on the insole and her foot goes over the top of it . |
| 12 | do n't miss out PUT YOUR SALON ON THE MAP IN THE NEW salon directory |
| 13 | ‘ Your mother did n't put my grandfather on the birth certificate ? ’ |
| 14 | DO N'T PUT YOUR BALL-ACT ON THE STAGE |
| 15 | Dad 's got a Thing against acting — ‘ Do n't put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington ’ — he whines on about eighty-five per cent of actors being unemployed at any one time — ‘ All the travelling — the stress — actors with their massive egos … ’ |
| 16 | Do n't put your daughter on the stage , Mrs Worthington , send her to be trained as a computer programmer . |
| 17 | well you did n't put your coat on the other day when you went for the paper |
| 18 | If you live round the corner from Mary Whitehouse could you pop in and tell her that her phone is off the hook she has n't replaced the receiver and she she 's quite an elderly lady and I would would be terribly upset if if she had n't got her phone back cos she might need it for emergencies or something like that and I am a caring concerned person so could you could you pop round the corner to Mary 's house and tell her that she has n't put her phone on the hook off the hook properly could you do that ? |
| 19 | But he offers a brilliant rendering of Do n't Put Your Daughter On The Stage , Mrs Worthington rising to heights of boiling , brick-red rage on ‘ She 's a vile girl and uglier than mortal sin . ’ |
| 20 | In the end , he achieved ‘ Mad Dogs and Englishmen ’ and ‘ Do n't Put Your Daughter On The Stage , Mrs Worthington ’ . |
| 21 | C. S. Lewis ( 1979 : 9 ) surely put his finger on the proper Christian approach to evil spirits in the preface to The Screwtape Letters : ‘ There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils . |
| 22 | Please put your name on the back of the photograph — only those entries submitted with a stamped addressed envelope will be returned . |
| 23 | The history books will list the world records , Olympic title and the record number of sub four-minute miles , but that alone does n't do justice to the man who consistently put his reputation on the line , changed our notions on the possible longevity of a miler 's career and who , I believe , was the inspiration that heralded the greatest decade in the history of British middle distance running . |
| 24 | He hesitated , then put his arm on the man 's shoulders . |
| 25 | I then put my hand on the throttles and said : " This reduces the power . " |
| 26 | Let's try it again to put our trust on the line , now . |
| 27 | ‘ It was so dark I could hardly see where to put my cross on the voting slip — and then I could n't get to the ballot box which was situated in a poky little office . |
| 28 | All of which has been glued together by a not inconsiderable act of faith , since none of the principal funders — the Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow City Council are both being asked for £20,000 — has yet put its thumbprint on the relevant cheque . |
| 29 | Now it 's a long time since I went by tube , and there 's not much you can do in the carriages except keep a handkerchief over your nose , but a useful tip is never to put your hand on the rail beside the moving staircase . |
| 30 | But he says Shakespeare certainly put his finger on the truth when he wrote : ‘ There are more things in heaven and earth … than are dreamt in ( your ) philosophy . ’ |