Example sentences of "put [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in London for rehearsals at the Globe , and the actors put on the new play for the first time on the 29th of June , 1613 . |
| 2 | Then Petra , a group which looks and sounds like Led Zeppelin , but is given to quoting from St Paul 's epistle to the Ephesians ( 6:11-17 : ‘ Put on the full armour of God , that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil … ’ ) , is for you . |
| 3 | Which is why it 's a very good idea when you next go into your offices this afternoon , to rock the receiver , like this , because any camp ons put on the wrong extension on the ‘ ring no reply ’ camp on will be matured , on a first come first served basis , so that 's how people get to talk to you . |
| 4 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 5 | You 've got to lift the whole lot off the wall and unthread the curtains and put back the right number of rings and hooks and it 's a palaver and I have n't done it . |
| 6 | There 's been advertising for years , not just since the fifties ; there was advertising in Victorian times ; newspapers and magazines , and pornography with drawings of women , and how men thought women should look , and the theatre and books all put out the same sorts of things — this is how a woman should be . |
| 7 | The only idea that seemed feasible was for the Collector to put on the rusty suit of armour which stood in the banqueting hall and to go out there with a scythe . |
| 8 | We 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 , we 're going to make everybody including Athens proud . |
| 9 | er I do n't know how to answer that question , all I can say is we 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 and we 're going to make everybody , including Athens I hope , proud . |
| 10 | Troops trying to put down the ethnic conflict in South Ossetia ( in which Dzhava was one of the principal centres ) were transferred to relief operations . |
| 11 | The parallels between the methods used to suppress unrest in Lhasa and those used to put down the student-led demonstrations in Peking made the award a double indictment of China 's human-rights record . |
| 12 | By making it hard to put up the tall blocks of flats of the sort that span the skylines of most capitals , the government condemns Tokyo to low-rise , cramped housing . |
| 13 | When he was an undergraduate at Christchurch in nineteen seventy-five , he and a friend , Tim Sanderson , decided to put up the biggest folly in the world in Christchurch meadow : |
| 14 | Q plans to put out the final part of his novel on video with the narration over Super 8 footage shot by Don Letts , before issuing a DEADMEAT ‘ remix ’ mass-market edition , and then moving on to a new book to be called Supermodel and concerned with , well , supermodels . |
| 15 | Well wha what he said was he went up there there 's erm could they put on the front wheels to the back and the back wheels to the front did n't say anything the bloke said , well we ca n't charge you . |
| 16 | And after all , what price can you put on the immense satisfaction of taking dew-fresh vegetables to the kitchen within minutes of harvesting them ? |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , do n't put on the brave front for me ! |
| 18 | The officers , aged 19 and 20 , put on the fancy dress for a last night party at a camp for the disabled . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | No one was likely to recommend that a hopeless old chronic like him should be put on the new drugs at this stage , because they were still in short supply and there were many more interesting patients on whom to experiment . |
| 22 | The museum , along with its art gallery , has been put on the endangered list by Thamesdown Borough Council , which is being forced to make cuts in its budget . |
| 23 | But if issues like these have been put on the public agenda by feminists , the substantive gains they achieved were limited . |
| 24 | He was put on the waiting list for insertion of grommets . |
| 25 | Doctors tried out different medications to ease Glenn 's condition but tests showed his heart muscle was damaged and he was put on the waiting list for a transplant . |
| 26 | ‘ We decided to suspend treatment for a while but have been put on the waiting list at the Ulster . |
| 27 | After all , the state owns many buildings and assets , and much emphasis has been put on the institutional shareholdings of insurance companies and pension funds . |
| 28 | It is a truism that the executive search consultant hired has a stronger influence on the person eventually put on the short list of candidates than the client . |
| 29 | But the military were accused of intimidation by the opposition ; their role in putting down the pro-democracy uprising in nineteen eighty eight , has n't been forgotten . |
| 30 | If James II were to recapture his throne , it would have to be by force , as the result of a successful foreign invasion , but William 's government proved more than a match , putting down the Jacobite rebellions in Scotland and Ireland , and defeating the prospect of a French-backed invasion with victory at La Hogue in 1692 . |