Example sentences of "put on the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I put on the black basque and the lacey-topped stockings .
2 Put on the glad rags and go out and party , after that ?
3 I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda .
4 ‘ What rotten luck , ’ Daisy said , putting on the upper-class voice that she used only when she was feeling guarded .
5 I do n't remember the carpet coming up to hit me , nor finding it hard to breathe , nor at that moment did the judge put on the black cap and say that I must swing by the neck until I was dead .
6 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 ’ .
7 When Martha was ready for home , she put on the pink bodice and Elizabeth dressed her hair .
8 Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside .
9 Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside .
10 Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside .
11 Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside .
12 If you wish to get married in a church which is not in either parish , you will have to apply to be put on the electoral roll or take up residence in the parish for the period over which the banns will be read .
13 Now that the Asian elephant has been put on the endangered list and included in the Red Data Book of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature 's Survival Service , governments will find it difficult officially to sanction catching operations .
14 I have been told to fill in a new form to be put on the waiting list but you need a permanent address to fill out one and I have n't got one . ’
15 At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work .
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