Example sentences of "[prep] put [adv prt] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Quinn hit the opposite pavement thirty-three seconds after putting down the phone on Zack . |
2 | Want to sort of put on the top of the wardrobe and then make it drop |
3 | EXPANSION IS a worthy label devoted solely to putting out the sort of soul music you might have thought had died with Philadelphia International in the early '80s . |
4 | I remember during the rehearsals for Die Zauberflöte he criticized the Sarastro for putting on the kind of unctuous tone that , according to Gründgens , was best left to indoctrination meetings for the Party faithful . |
5 | There is perhaps an element of do-gooding about certain taxes and even today there are Treasury ministers who smugly claim they are doing the nation 's health a favour by putting up the levy on cigarettes , alcohol and petrol . |
6 | And they have a bill , an bill of two hundred and fifty four pounds for the lighting , erm they think it 's an important community opportunity to have good entertainment on their doorstep , and they 've only been able to balance their proposed production this year , by putting up the price by fifty pence . |