Example sentences of "put it [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Now cover your whole head with a towel and put it over the steaming bowl so the towel forms a ‘ tent ’ to catch the steam .
2 He just put it to the poor bastard .
3 LEFT Especially if you are not used to fitting a check chain , take care to ensure that you put it on the right way round .
4 But make sure we put it on the right side though !
5 So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it
6 ‘ We did not want the burden of administration falling on the taxpayer so we put it on the prime beneficiary , which is the farmer himself . ’
7 The Rosewood 's very close to a Jazzmaster sometimes , actually , because it 's very sweet ; when you put it on the front pickup it 's very mellow .
8 When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove .
9 He removed the vase and put it on the occasional table next to the wedding photograph .
10 I 've done m is there , are there any gaps in between , if you put it on the good quality like , can you see any spaces ?
11 So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom .
12 Just put it by the back door .
13 I 've got to go through my advisers and put it before the other board members in the proper manner . ’
14 You simply bite on one , take it back to the warren and put it in the great burrow .
15 yeah put it in the small pile
16 At 7.00 next morning he placed the basin in his tin and handed it to the attendant , who put it in the hot cupboard .
17 He then removed the window and put it in the new hole and started to fill in the gap at the sides with cement .
18 She took an old carpet , filled it with soil and put it in the front room , where Annie and her brother spent the day .
19 If it is a real big son , great , we stuff it and put it in the front room .
20 Wallington ( 1985 : 159 ) put it in the following way :
21 Modern zoologists put it in the Wallacean sub-region along with its adjacent islands , together with the Philippines ( except Palawan and the Calamian group of islands ) and the Lesser Sundas from Lombok to Timor .
22 put it in the bloody garage and forget it ai n't he ?
23 Get a forklift and put it in the bloody garden see .
24 In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible .
25 But they did get her another chair , and put it in the old chair 's place .
26 I do , you put it in the big shop did n't you ?
27 A man who had been sitting silently by on the wooden form got to his feet , his hand outstretched , and he said , ‘ There ! take it ; and if you want to pay it back put it in the voluntary box she was talking about . ’
28 How would the bank staff know if hed put it in the wrong way round … it just does nt ‘ suck ’ it in. unless he forces it in .
29 It is very unlikely that a solar panel would chop your hand off if you accidentally put it in the wrong place , but the 36 in ( 91cm ) span of the larger wind generators can be deadly .
30 I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . "
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