Example sentences of "put on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've put on over a stone |
| 2 | The Officer was put on to a stretcher . |
| 3 | Subsequent Cabinet and Service Department screening in Whitehall reduced the figure to £4,700 million which was the most that the Treasury believed the economy could bear without being put on to a war footing . |
| 4 | This is then drawn full-size and traced on to acetate film which is put on to a bed of clay covering the board . |
| 5 | Knitters can choose from a whole range of techniques and their selection will be put on to a video , exclusive to them . |
| 6 | These exercises , which are easily and quickly generated , can be presented to your students either as printed worksheets — you will be provided with the answers on a separate sheet — or can be put on to a floppy disk so that a student or group of students can work on screen . |
| 7 | ‘ Its figures only measure waiting time from the day a patient is put on to a consultant 's in-patient or day case waiting list . |
| 8 | She was put on to a life-support machine , which her parents , Mike and Jackie , were told would be her constant companion . |
| 9 | She was put on to a life-support machine , which her parents , Mike and Jackie , were told would be her constant companion . |
| 10 | Yeah he is he has put on about a stone since he 's stopped smoking though |
| 11 | At the age of 75 , Olivier visited Richard to see a play he was directing and attended a midnight student production he had put on in a Hollywood garage with other students . |
| 12 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 13 | He has a gravitas that has not just been put on like a flashy waistcoat , nor indeed a Garrick Club tie . |
| 14 | ‘ The trouble , ’ said Fred , ‘ is that your tournament is being put on by a bunch of aircraft public relations people . ’ |