Example sentences of "to put [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 I will always remember undoing that first roller — I had forgotten to put the neutraliser on , it looked like a nightmare and all my mates were calling me poodle head .
2 Dynamite on a long fuse Myles Palmer talks to singer , Brenda Lee , returning to Scotland on tour , and celebrating 33 years in the music business ‘ I know what entertainers have gone through to get to that point on the stage , to put the performance on for you .
3 Because I know what they 've gone through to get to that point on the stage , to put the performance on for you .
4 Courtaulds ' Viloft fibre is pedalling hard to put the performance back into sportswear .
5 I 'm just going to put the video on for a moment Thank you .
6 It is not illegal to carry out development without permission but the planning authority ( and only they ) can , if they so wish , take action to put the position back physically to what it was before the development took place .
7 He wanted to tell her to come back to bed , to put the child down now he was quiet .
8 She bent down to put the bottle back in her case , then stood erect .
9 And er and that that 's They had to take the top off to make it safe , that 's why I say a couple of hours work to put the top back on , erm makes balance .
10 Staff , learning of some intimate aspect of a prisoner 's life , perhaps from seeing a file or overhearing a chaplain or social worker discuss confidential information , would be expected to use it to put the prisoner down .
11 The allusion to the famous novella in the Decameron ( 3 , 10 ) , in which ‘ to put the devil back in hell ’ was a euphemism for sexual intercourse by using which a hermit seduced a young novice , is given an application quite the reverse of Boccaccio 's warm-hearted celebration of the flesh : ‘ Yet this shall I ne'er know , but live in doubt/Till my bad angel fire my good one out . ’
12 Personally , I prefer to put the flysheet up first or use a tent that erects all in one .
13 It took three minutes to erect the inner tent on its first outing but because it was raining constantly , the inner was a little wet before I had a chance to put the flysheet over .
14 To adapt the slogan ‘ Put the Great back in Britain ’ , some of them have begun to put the river back into river management .
15 Walk the boat out until the water is deep enough for you to put the daggerboard down far enough so that you 'll be able to sail away .
16 The only cleaning the house gets is when I force him to put the Hoover round on pain of a black eye .
17 Shortly after her rescue she had a foal , and her owner decided to put the mare back in foal again .
18 Well he has to put the suit on , try it on in the shop , to make sure it , wear his shoes there cos even , the shoes he 's got might be alright with it .
19 Overwhelmed by the damage caused by the massive bombing and defoliation raids from 1961 to 1971 , Vo Quy and a team of Vietnamese scientists began drafting a national conservation strategy to put the country back on a firm ecological footing .
20 To question him in detail and endeavour to reconcile his answers , to closet him with accountants and sharp practitioners learned in the wiles of insolvency and bankruptcy , was only to put the case out at compound interest of incomprehensibility .
21 Jibes about past financial difficulties are no longer valid he says — the recent flotation by US parent Computervision Corp has helped to put the company back on an even keel and the interest VirtualStation is already attracting provides more reason for optimism .
22 And we started s to put the stuff in at the front and whatnot you see .
23 So , they 've had to get men in , to board the windows up then if somebody else gets the house , they 've got to get these men to come and take the boards down again , then they glazier has to put the window in .
24 I hope you did not try too hard to put the Princess off . ’
25 If you go back to the time United Biscuits felt they had to close their Liverpool factory , the bishops up in Liverpool marched on Hector Laing and tried to persuade him to put the decision off .
26 I do n't think the people who advocate these policies understand that you have every wish to put the decision off .
27 ‘ It is possible we will try to put the fight on in September rather than July . ’
28 Full instructions for use are supplied , to enable even inexperienced d-i-yers to put the edge back on their drill bits .
29 Sevenhampton was where novelist Ian Fleming once earned a living writing about a secret agent called James Bond and Rupert likes to think that Roves Farm is helping to put the village back on the map .
30 I 'm trying to put the screw back in .
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