Example sentences of "she [vb past] on [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put on her pale-blue linen Jaeger dress and , believe it or not , a little hat . |
| 2 | She put on her black trousers and her chocolate-brown sweater because they were at the top of the first suitcase she opened and she would have worn them at home on a cool autumn day when there was mist on the hills and woodsmoke in the lanes and … |
| 3 | Eva tolerated them since they paid for Dad 's thoughts and therefore her dinner , but when they went into the bedroom to chant I heard her say to Dad , as she put on her yellow silk blouse for that brilliant evening , ‘ The future should n't contain too much of the past . ’ |
| 4 | So she put on her pretty frock and the scent that smells of yesterday and Hywel took the dogs in the van and she waited . |
| 5 | She put on her white sandals . |
| 6 | Following her father 's death in 1866 she carried on his pioneering work on the development of the screw propeller for steamships . |