Example sentences of "she put on [art] " in BNC.

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1 After I was born she put on a lot of weight , and although eventually she lost most of it , my birth was seen as to blame for her weight problem , and throughout my childhood she reminded me of this .
2 She put on a smile , but it was unconvincing .
3 She put on a coat , took down her walking cane which hung behind the door and then we left .
4 She put on a coat and walked into the village for some shopping .
5 If she appeared simply as a woman , she would have been discarded and ignored , therefore she put on a disguise of a man , and fooled the court into accepting her case .
6 Going out to the battlefields , Olid Edis wanted some mark of her identity and so got a badge ‘ NWM ’ which she put on a cap .
7 She put on the kettle , craving her morning cup of coffee .
8 It was one of the first things she put on the wall when they re-decorated the house .
9 Wearily she put on the kettle for the tea .
10 She put on the kettle , put coffee into a mug , and stood by the stove , so as to be standing , not sitting , while he moved so electrically and finely about .
11 And she took the skin and she ran down to the shore and she put on the skin , dived back into the sea .
12 She put on the kettle and built the fire .
13 Going into the bedroom again she put on the oatmeal dress which might have been bought yesterday for fit .
14 She took her drink to the salon , where the remains of the fire still glowed , and after a while she put on the lamps and went slowly across to look at the paintings .
15 She should try to forget him , but the memory of their afternoon together had the power to make her cheeks rosy , and so they stayed while she put on the plainest gown which she could find in the wardrobe which she had left behind , with her personal maid , when she had pretended to go with the Parslows .
16 She turned them this way and that , selecting four perfect specimens , which she put on the seat between herself and Nora .
17 When his chest was clear , she put on the pads for the heart monitor , frowning slightly as she did so at the feel of the chest wall under her hands .
18 He swung his leg over the saddle , rocked the bike off its stand and balanced it with his legs while she put on the helmet , tugged on the huge gloves and tried not to let him know she was panicking .
19 She flushed guiltily as she put on the kettle .
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