Example sentences of "put them on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Others take my beers even if they 're warned not to — they sometimes put them on the bar without pump clips . ’ |
| 2 | And finally , only a year or so later , turned them out of house and home — put them on the street , as women who failed to be properly grateful to the fathers had been put for centuries . |
| 3 | To save time I make up my float rigs beforehand and put them on pole winders . |
| 4 | They arrived after practice , but , like a fool , I put them on untried for the race . |
| 5 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 6 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm sick of all these people making great music , but when you put them on stage , they ca n't hack it , I think that 's pretty weak . |
| 8 | Philby claimed he thoughtfully put them on the right track to divert suspicion from himself . |
| 9 | I put them on the chairs , here in front of the fire , to dry nut and the kitchen was like a steam-bath all winter . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , I put them on one side for you . |
| 11 | She poked busily at the concoctions , withdrew the tins from the oven and put them on the scrubbed wooden table to cool . |
| 12 | They put them on pedal-cycles . |
| 13 | then she bought a bunch of violets and put them on the baby 's pillow , blew us a kiss and disappeared . |
| 14 | Like we 've had women who have wet their knickers and then put them on the radiator to dry , or just swilled them out in the sink and end up with a smelly room . |
| 15 | We wanted to avoid all the delays that creep in if we hack them by hi-speed Busby post to Dover , put them on board a ponderous Sealink ferry and eventually consign them to the decidedly risky hands of some unknown foreign postman in the forlorn hope that they-might , with luck and a following wind , reach the Antipodes before the turn of the century . |
| 16 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 17 | When all these objects had been tested and discussed , they took them out and put them on the shelf in two groups : those that floated , and those that sank . |
| 18 | They put them on their arms , but Julian noticed his were of different lengths , one covering his hand , the other leaving his hand extended beyond the edge . |
| 19 | Eat them or mash them up and put them on your face — with their soothing properties , carrots really earn their ‘ skin-food ’ label . |
| 20 | Now put them on your head . ’ |
| 21 | So we used to go up there and get our .008″ banjo strings and put them on the top and it really transformed what you could do . ’ |
| 22 | Now , all he wanted was to get back to his typewriter and put them on paper before they faded . |
| 23 | Then pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 1 and 2 ( one already on needle 1 ) . |
| 24 | Pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 2 and 3 ( one already on needle 2 ) . |
| 25 | And then she said , ‘ Look , there 's no way I can get this case and that bass hamper up them steps , full as they are , I 'll have to tie the stuff in bundles an' put them on the cart . |
| 26 | But , at the same time , put them on show to the public in a similar manner to the Great Railway Show at York NRM , with occasional use on demonstration freight trains on the Bo'ness and Kinniel Railway . |
| 27 | Cis was coming out of the Co-op one day ( hoping that Rich had not , yet again , taken some cigarettes and put them on her account ) , when she met a bristle-moustached Meredith Jones who demanded , ‘ How can you let him do it ? ’ |
| 28 | Now you put them on the shelves , and I 'll check you . ’ |
| 29 | Duncan took off his pack and helmet , put them on the table , a gesture of defiance and annoyance . |
| 30 | We need a more active approach to the promotion of new knowledge provided by research … to carry out large numbers of research projects and then put them on shelves and in pigeon holes is appallingly wasteful , as is also the vast amount of information available in hundreds of central and local government reports published each year and then forgotten , and never collated or analysed within an overall framework of reference . |