Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you put on the pink and rode to hounds like English gentlefolk these days , some wee feller with an Armalite would blow your head off . |
| 2 | His belief is that work has to go on all year round , whether or not that means taking on the hazardous and snow-covered Carpathian mountains . |
| 3 | Different wavelengths switch on the red-sensitive and the blue-sensitive photocells in our retinas . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I ca n't put on the black and peach creations he bought before , so I told him to go and get something sensible at Marks and Spencer . |
| 6 | She put on the black and white dress , hesitating a moment as she looked at herself and thought , it 's too smart . |
| 7 | Flowered Up 's co-manager Terry stars in Rude Boy as a wayward yoof put on the straight and narrow by Joe . |
| 8 | Kicking back the covers , I let my feet touch the carpet , put on the white and blue striped kaftan which my journalist daughter had made for me and walked to the window overlooking the central court . |
| 9 | Although it had been obscured by the emphasis put on the military and diplomatic struggles within the Arab world and in the international arena ever since 1967 , the centrality of the people under occupation in the national struggle could no longer be disregarded . |
| 10 | In the poetry of Mallarmé the words ‘ mean ’ what a French dictionary tells us they mean , but they also take on the private and idiosyncratic meanings that Mallarmé gives them . |