Example sentences of "put on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone knows there is a quality difference between name brand personal computers and generic machines but the premium put on the famous products has become very small indeed . |
| 2 | She put on the other record , save Pergolesi for later when surely they 'd be alone . |
| 3 | Paul says , ‘ Put off your old self , put on the new ’ ( vv. 22,24 ) . |
| 4 | She even put on sheer stockings and a brief pleated skirt instead of her usual jeans , then , as final proof of her new outlook on life , she put on the new pink sweater and danced out into the sitting-room , calling . |
| 5 | Bourdieu 's own analysis of politics , however , stresses rather the division between the ‘ knows ’ and the ‘ do n't knows ’ , in relation to the pressure put on the general public to have an informed opinion on often very distant issues ( 1984 : 397–465 ) . |
| 6 | It was getting dark so he pulled the curtains and put on the overhead light . |
| 7 | Paul Warren put on the usual impressive display in the Grumman Tigercat , Norman Lees flew David Gilmour 's Mustang N51RR and Peter Henley put Mosquito T.III RR299/G-ASKH through its paces in a smooth , co-ordinated display showing the lines of this classic British World War Two aircraft . |
| 8 | At five minutes to five , Shirley , the typist who had been helping Ianthe to file some cards , covered up her typewriter , put on the black imitation leather coat she had just bought , and hurried away singing . |
| 9 | She put on the black and white dress , hesitating a moment as she looked at herself and thought , it 's too smart . |
| 10 | I also put on the real Sperzel locking tuning pegs as opposed to the fake ones that Fender are making now . |
| 11 | Miguel smoothed back his hair over his ears , put on the dark glasses , and reached for the keys to the jeep . |
| 12 | The officers , aged 19 and 20 , put on the fancy dress for a last night party at a camp for the disabled . |
| 13 | Flowered Up 's co-manager Terry stars in Rude Boy as a wayward yoof put on the straight and narrow by Joe . |
| 14 | Hick at No. 3 is encouragement to the bowlers and deflation for his fellow-batsmen : hence the pressure put on the middle order in the past two years . |
| 15 | Like the effect of programme scheduling on TV audience sizes , a story put on the front page was much more likely to be read than something buried inside , and ‘ page traffic ’ figures show slightly higher noting of items on right-hand than left-hand pages . |
| 16 | Kicking back the covers , I let my feet touch the carpet , put on the white and blue striped kaftan which my journalist daughter had made for me and walked to the window overlooking the central court . |
| 17 | As Thurlow sums him up , ‘ in everyday life he was a small insignificant man in an ordinary suit … but take off the uniform of the city solicitor and put on the running singlet and the track shoes and the transformation was amazing ’ . |
| 18 | When Martha was ready for home , she put on the pink bodice and Elizabeth dressed her hair . |
| 19 | Everyone put on the whole uniform including the grey raincoat on top , and I put on my raincoat also , I packed Tommy 's spare garments and my own clothes into the holdall , and was ready . |
| 20 | Although it had been obscured by the emphasis put on the military and diplomatic struggles within the Arab world and in the international arena ever since 1967 , the centrality of the people under occupation in the national struggle could no longer be disregarded . |
| 21 | Within a moment of her arrival St Ives put on the rimless spectacles he detested , though usually he preferred to squint blindly down at the book rather than be seen in them . |
| 22 | They were shown into cubicles with inadequate curtains , where they were told to strip completely and put on the clean towelling gowns in there . |
| 23 | The declining popularity of bonfire night in the back garden is having two effects : a dramatic cut in the number of people hurt by fireworks , and booming business for the firms that put on the big public displays . |
| 24 | The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume . |