Example sentences of "put [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 came back and put half a stone on , right , diet !
2 She said , Well , Izzy busybody , you go doo-lally tap if you put half a toe on a crack in the pavement , I 've seen you .
3 Put half the lemon juice , the peppercorns , parsley stalks and wine in a pan and bring to the boil .
4 If you put such a statement firmly into the mouth of your detective or state it flatly yourself , the reader will realise , even without consciously doing so , that this is the limit set for the game , the frame of the crossword puzzle , and will plunge on happily .
5 It was far from ideal , in an age which put such a premium on the identification of the ruler with his kingdom ; Elizabeth 's boast of being ‘ mere English ’ , James VI and I 's difficulty with his English subjects because he was a Scot , make the point very well .
6 Have you put all the coving up ?
7 the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ?
8 You put all the work in . ’
9 Now I understood and I put all the blame on Miss Louise .
10 And you put all the equipment you have used safely back in the correct tins and on the correct shelf .
11 oh is it in that corner ? that 's where I put all the stuff , Jack The Ripper
12 And then I decided very reluctantly to have an excavator and for three and a half days it worked down there and erm created a sort of Black Hole Calcutta and put all the stuff it had taken out , it spewed around so that it , there was just mud and no water .
13 when you paint a picture when you paint a picture you put all the information in the picture that you need to present the idea to other people .
14 Put all the sugar together into the bowl .
15 Put all the waste vegetation on the ever-hungry compost heap .
16 Put all the waste paper through a shredder and sell it in the college shop as bedding for rabbits and guinea pigs . ’
17 ( 31/1/93 ) : Paul Stephen and I went to Richard Newcombe 's to pick up his long ladder to support the roof timbers on Paul 's car and then went down to the carriage and put all the roof on his car roof .
18 ‘ He 's forgotten his early life as Peter Pan and put all the energy into his work that he used to put into Neverland .
19 Put all the cake ingredients except the chocolate liqueur in a mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or with a food mixer until light and fluffy .
20 She lost 4 stones ( 25.5 kg ) in four months — too quickly by anybody 's reckoning — and put all the weight back on , and more , in the ensuing four months .
21 I could manage to lose five or six pounds and then I would break the diet , go back to normal food and put all the weight back on again .
22 Put all the world 's land animals on a pair of scales and 10% of the weight would be ants .
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