Example sentences of "[verb] put [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want to put on a good performance , and I believe we can win this one if we adopt a positive attitude . ’ |
| 2 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 3 | I shall return to that point later , but I want to put down a clear marker now . |
| 4 | Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face . |
| 5 | Blue Circle wants to put up a small commercial development on the site of the old cement works and use the profits to pay for the restoration work — two lakes — one for fishing and sailing , the other for geologists and birdwatchers . |
| 6 | Mr Welch quickly acknowledges that GE has put up a sorry performance in having only four women among its 120 top people . |
| 7 | Kim Kethavy , the party 's leader , made his fortune from petrol stations in California and has put up a large slogan outside his office in Phnom Penh 's Market Square proclaiming ‘ Communism is evil ’ . |
| 8 | She wears her usual dull black leggings , and for the cool April evening she has put on a black woolly top . |
| 9 | Although the Museum has put on a large number of successful temporary exhibitions , the display of its permanent collection has been subject to difficulties and delays . |
| 10 | Royal Insurance has put out a hefty cash call , asking shareholders to stump up £404m by subscribing for one new share for every three held at 255p . |
| 11 | We may only be able to afford to put up a certain amount of money to help fund them . |
| 12 | I have since asked my constituent for an update of the position and she has confirmed that the family has had to put in a good deal more extra money to finance both daughters than it had previously expected . |
| 13 | A Washington Post report said that both men strove to put on a reassuring front when asked about opinion polls which continued to show a majority of voters in both republics against separation . |
| 14 | It is sometimes said by government officials — I have heard it said by leading members of the administrations of Tanzania , Nigeria , Sierra Leone and Zambia — that African journalists are not sufficiently experienced to tell when an interested party in a dispute may be attempting to put over a particular point of view or discredit a government policy by using the press or radio . |
| 15 | Before concluding I would just like to put down a few words on permission and such like . |
| 16 | I shall begin to put out a few delicate hints . |
| 17 | I 'm going to put up a good fight . |
| 18 | The one where this governess is told to put on a special dress and sit with her back to the window . |
| 19 | Suddenly he said , ‘ Would you mind putting off a general inspection of the animals till tomorrow ? |
| 20 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 21 | As the front door slammed behind them , Josh finished drying his face and hands and began to put on a clean shirt and a stiff collar . |
| 22 | In spite of all the hard work she began to put on a little weight . |
| 23 | We like putting on a good show . |
| 24 | If you do not weigh for a year and you eat just an extra 500 calories each day during that time , you will have put on a full 45 lb ( 21.8 kg ) ; rather a nasty shock ! |
| 25 | There was no question but that the army , the Lebanese Forces militia , and a whole new wave of volunteers would have put up a desperate resistance . |
| 26 | He might have put up a good show the other day , but that was because he was frightened . |
| 27 | No , I 'd have thought he 'd have put up a better show than that . |
| 28 | The rose which mantled the house must have put out a thousand flowers and these were at the peak of their blooming , not a petal yet shed , each blossom the pink of a shell within and the pink of coral on its outer side . |
| 29 | Also there was no other way to express her sense of something having arrived from somewhere else , something normally invisible to the eye choosing to put on a human form . |
| 30 | But they still managed to put up a brave show and could have won had Crusaders goalkeeper Kevin McKeown not stopped a John Drake thunderbolt in 74 minutes . |