Example sentences of "[pers pn] put [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I took it off afterwards , my hair was a mess , so I put on a turban or tied in back with a band , which is what I do every day . |
| 2 | When I was at school in the seventies , one afternoon every week throughout the winter term , I put on a pair of ill-fitting plimsolls and plodded miserably , and for no apparent reason , around the wet pavements of a Sussex market town . |
| 3 | I put on a jersey and jacket and lay with head and shoulders propped against a locker , eating sardines and mopping the oil from the can with fresh bread . |
| 4 | ‘ As noon approached , I put on a raincoat and hat . |
| 5 | I put on a bit of make-up — not like before , not like a freak , just enough to make me feel respectable . |
| 6 | ‘ Once I put on a tie , I tend not to change it every day . |
| 7 | I always cleanse , tone and moisturise and I put on a face masque every week . |
| 8 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
| 9 | I put on a stone after a recent holiday and I have n't got round to getting it off . |
| 10 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 11 | If I put on a vacuum cleaner and lie beside it , I go into a complete trance because the one note ringing inside the machine seems to relax me and hypnotise me . |
| 12 | I put on a spacesuit , went outside and moved to the big round door . |
| 13 | Often I put on a record . |
| 14 | I put on a look of concern , but he shrugged . |
| 15 | I put on a spacesuit and went into the cargo area were I found that while the main part of the sculpture was now solidified again , the fibres on the floor were disintegrating and useless . |
| 16 | So I put on a coat . |
| 17 | I 'm telling you , I put on a coat . |
| 18 | I put on a flamenco record and roll a joint . |
| 19 | Yeah cos I went in that shop and I put on a size ten skirt and it was hanging . |
| 20 | Oh I put on a pound too . |
| 21 | The application to the local community is one that I put as a challenge to all : How can we help people to take seriously membership in the Eucharistic community of faith ? |
| 22 | Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back . |
| 23 | And I put in a request to see His Majesty the King . |
| 24 | FIGURE 3 I put in a few plants growing outside the window . |
| 25 | At the office I put in a call to Connors that produced nothing . |
| 26 | ‘ I put in a TOP TIP about it and got the go-ahead to install Kan-Krushers at 18 different points on the site . |
| 27 | Until I put in a . |
| 28 | Well I had , there 's some soup in the freezer from when I put a tin , a tin of chicken soup and Di used the last of the turkey in it , and we had some and what was left I put in a dish |
| 29 | I put in a square bracket on the minutes |
| 30 | These I put inside a paper bag , along with a pound note and a hastily drawn picture of a devil and a donkey . |