Example sentences of "put on a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Naturally , it must not be put on a square which is on the same row or file or diagonal as another piece .
2 Amaryllis had put on a dress which had arrived only that noon from London .
3 All the same , most of them were splendid and she was glad she had put on a dress today .
4 This should not be put on a back burner .
5 Hywel , supposed Lydia , must have briefly courted her , have put on a suit , taken her out to a café , been moderately gay .
6 Being a property tax — there is not now any contention between the two main parties about that — we can either tax the kind of house and say , for example , that all three-bedroom properties shall be taxed the same , in which case my hon. Friends should be aware that we would soon have tremendous anomalies as the same tax is placed on a Mayfair flat as is put on a flat in a mining village , or we can have regional banding , and then there must be boundaries between regions .
7 Because everybody was treated equally at the start of their Legion service , Mike , who had learnt his killing in the bush war in Rhodesia , was treated the same as a South Vietnamese man who had never put on a uniform in his life .
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