Example sentences of "[conj] put on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The declining popularity of bonfire night in the back garden is having two effects : a dramatic cut in the number of people hurt by fireworks , and booming business for the firms that put on the big public displays . |
| 2 | ‘ It will be good to see the England lads again and to put on the international shirt , ’ says Gazza . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Blow them out , Breeze , and put on the light . ’ |
| 5 | It was getting dark so he pulled the curtains and put on the overhead light . |
| 6 | " Scald a sufficient quantity of fruit , and pulp it through a sieve , add sugar agreeable to taste , make a thick layer of this at the bottom of your dish : mix a pint of milk , a pint of cream , and the yolks of two eggs : scald it over the fire , observing to stir it : add a small quantity of sugar , and let it get cold : then lay it over the apples or gooseberries with a spoon , and put on the whole a whip [ a syllabub ] made the day before . |
| 7 | They were shown into cubicles with inadequate curtains , where they were told to strip completely and put on the clean towelling gowns in there . |
| 8 | And put on the light . |
| 9 | Hornet 's Richard Wolfenden points out that the company has not been liquidated but put on the back burner until production can be resumed abroad with lower costs and overheads . |
| 10 | It is strange to me that such an obviously deep and , in my opinion , very moving , impressive poem can revolve round a mechanical , modern and brash object and almost devalue nature while putting on the personal and human mask that it does . |
| 11 | Long after America had thrown off the yoke of colonial rule , Americans still held such a poor opinion of the perfidious English that such a pool shot was also described as Putting on the English . |