Example sentences of "[vb base] put [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want to put on a good performance , and I believe we can win this one if we adopt a positive attitude . ’ |
| 2 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 3 | I shall return to that point later , but I want to put down a clear marker now . |
| 4 | We like putting on a good show . |
| 5 | ’ Checked other stuff , an' the mechs 've put on a new hull section , sealed in nice . |
| 6 | I 've , I 've put on an awful lot of weight . |
| 7 | We 've put together a fabulous selection of new hairstyles to give you some sparkling inspiration . |
| 8 | Using the best of the season 's fruits we 've put together a delicious array of puddings that are easy to make and wo n't pile on the pounds . |
| 9 | To make life easier , we 've put together a basic guide to perfect perming . |
| 10 | Well it 's , look he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark , ten seconds later he passed the two hundred and fifty metre mark , how far did he run in ten seconds and you 've put down a hundred metres |
| 11 | Defoliating caterpillars can cause severe damage to oak trees — indeed , trees sometimes have to put out a new set of leaves later in the summer . |
| 12 | The postmodern obsession with ‘ surfaces ’ could also link to the more general and growing indeterminacy of the middle classes who need to put on a Goffman-like front in order to impose their ‘ nominative powers ’ . |
| 13 | Bombay has been a good ground for me in the past , but we need to put in a better performance than we have been doing . |
| 14 | THE owners of two Redcar amusement arcades have put up a substantial reward after their premises were burgled this week . |
| 15 | By the time you have put up an appropriate amount of cabinets and storage there is not usually much wall left to cover . |
| 16 | Previous studies ( see the review in Green et al. , 1986 ) have put forward a wide range of factors to account for this relatively low level of labour mobility , particularly amongst the lower paid . |
| 17 | Weiss and Brown ( 1974 ) have put forward a similar proposal with their suggestion that latent inhibition is a consequence of the subject 's learning a ‘ zero correlation , between the target stimulus and other events . |
| 18 | From limited evidence , from drill cores , from seismic data , and from what has been learned by field work on ophiolites , earth scientists have put together a composite picture of the layered oceanic crust ( Figure I ) . |
| 19 | The Blaggers ITA have put out a limited edition one-sided EP of which by far the best track is ‘ It 's Up To You ’ , which features the sampled words of Thomas Mensford ( ex-singer with The Angelic Upstarts and alleged Morrissey mucker ) in which Mensi accurately dissects the filth that is fascism . |