Example sentences of "putting [pron] [adv] again " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday Norman Lamont changed his policy three times in ten hours , putting up interest rates , putting them up again , changing his mind , perhaps , about the second increase and finally deciding to leave the ERM , effectively paving the way for devaluing the pound . |
| 2 | ‘ I imagined my father sitting in this enormous building doing nothing but taking off his socks and putting them on again . |
| 3 | As he scrutinised me intently , he kept taking off his glasses and then putting them on again . |
| 4 | She kept fidgeting with her bonnet , dropping her hat-pin , taking off her gloves and putting them on again . |
| 5 | We sell a great many long haul holidays , often breaking apart the packages then putting them together again at lower cost . ’ |
| 6 | He liked taking them apart and putting them together again in the wrong order to make new toys and would do this all day until he had forgotten what they looked like in the first place . |
| 7 | A torso is much more effective in demonstrating relationships , because the learner is ‘ doing ’ by handling the organs , taking apart and putting them together again . |
| 8 | If you could have paper things … sometimes it seems to be putting out fresh plates , eating off them , washing them , and then putting them out again … some days you seem to be at it all day long . |
| 9 | Most of the information I 've got is about residential homes and that is because Social Work Services Group is an awful lot better at pulling together statistics and putting them out again than the Scottish Home and Health Department . |
| 10 | Sometimes one or other would roam round the room picking things up , examining them and putting them down again ; or looking with unfocused eyes at nothing at all . |
| 11 | Sarah went round the room , picking up objects and putting them down again . |
| 12 | Unable to settle , she trailed round the small cottage , picking things up , putting them down again , with no clear idea of what to do . |
| 13 | Jennie then asked Katharine to come across the half diagonal in a nice , steady canter , and to imagine ‘ picking him up and putting him down again on the other leg . ’ |
| 14 | Even with the help of a dockside crane , putting it up again proved even more problematic . |
| 15 | I puzzled over this little problem for years , right into old age in fact , picking it up when it happened to float into my mind , and putting it down again unsolved . |
| 16 | We 're putting it back again and this time we 're gon na make it stick |
| 17 | Quarter the canvas and absorb all the details before putting it together again . ’ |