Example sentences of "put on [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now erm last century er goods came up er the Trent to er and er by sailing barge er and er this sort of equipment was used to er to collect er items from the holds of these er barges , erm put on wagons , horse-drawn er and er some steam traction engines , er to be transported around .
2 ‘ That half-hearted performance you put on back at the police station wo n't be enough to convince her , not after what she witnessed last night … all your near-hysterical ramblings ! ’
3 So you can say from Wednesday till today there 's all coal that was in the bunker plus what they put on top .
4 Well one got let off , one got a pro put on probation , for three years , and the other one got sent away to an approved school .
5 I was naked , so I put on sunglasses and a Led Zeppelin record and I did a little Zeppelin dance . ’
6 He was taken out of the garden at put on trial , all the others were gathered together swiftly Normally a Jewish trial would take much longer than this .
7 Er school liaison , er we do things like arrange talks to different community groups , put on shows and displays .
8 We put on shoes .
9 put on things like that .
10 We put on tastings for staff as well as customers .
11 SHE gave me a row when I put on potatoes for her tea .
12 We put on spacesuits and went out .
13 The I put on dioxazine purple , a dark blackish purple when used neat .
14 I put on Hyde 's clothes and marched confidently through the house .
15 I mean one thing that 's mentioned before is about tag questions , which is where you put on question to the end of your sentence , as in Oh do n't you agree or Is n't it or you know you know the sort of thing I mean .
16 Put on water for sprouts .
17 You are now one of the committee member and the certainly put on productions in Lewes , but also at the Gardner Centre .
18 Put on floor here , my little green plastic bag .
19 Well not very much unless you made it yourself , you know , if you were , the factories used to have their own erm dances and the Embers , it used to be the Embers then , that 's the place in the Stow , they had danci , yes , they had dancing there and they put on competitions for different things and my son , with lots of others er , did erm a rock and roll thing which needed thirty six hours .
20 After washing , I put on Boot 's non-sting anti-perspirant .
21 put on reading , er glasses Jim
22 This latest bulletin is so depressing , I put on 6lbs just thinking about it .
23 Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on .
24 They got as far as ‘ I 'm a Forrester , I score for Leeds , I hate Man U and I hate Chel-sea ’ , plus the line ‘ I put on women 's clothing , like Eric Cantona ’ .
25 are not I think it 's pressure that society 's putting on the women , I think it 's pressure that women are putting on themselves , and also that other women put on women and that men put on women .
26 are not I think it 's pressure that society 's putting on the women , I think it 's pressure that women are putting on themselves , and also that other women put on women and that men put on women .
27 In the end , though England was still at war with Spain , they were , on 27 October , put on board ship at Leith and sent home .
28 ‘ Well , it 's over now , you lazy black bastard , and the client wants three scuba sets put on board . ’
29 But when I put on Love of Colours I could n't lie still .
30 The points in two point four to two point nine are nevertheless important and we would er I would strongly recommend that you endorse the erm making of those points to Aida If they then do n't take those points on board , you would have the opportunity when the plan is , is finally put on deposit of making a formal objection to the plan on the basis that we disagree with that particular wording , but I have here th th th the strong expectation that Aida will take on board those small points anyway and it is just a matter therefore o of making minor changes , but unfortunately the conformity issue is , is a , is a rather different one whether we are er in er er er as an authority in agreement with what Aida is saying in their plan .
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