Example sentences of "put [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gregoire now has some hair and he 's put on weight ! |
| 2 | He had put on weight . |
| 3 | If you are not too fat you will be able to eat more and not put on weight . |
| 4 | School makes me nervous ; when I walk down the corridor I feel that everyone is staring at me , and because a lot of people know about my anorexia they think it their job to comment constantly on what I am eating or not eating , and how much better I look now that I 've put on weight . |
| 5 | Outwardly , now , everything is fine : I 've put on weight , I 've done what my mum and the doctors wanted . |
| 6 | He had put on weight , but he was taking exercise . |
| 7 | I also wormed her over a course of three weeks , and watched her slowly put on weight . |
| 8 | All the fish have put on weight , the Pictus especially have grown about half-an-inch . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds . |
| 10 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 11 | Some fathers-to-be even put on weight , added the doctor , who has a London clinic . |
| 12 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 13 | As a result his breathing was better and he had put on weight but , as he told Seferis , " the spirit sleeps " in such places:he became bored and restless . |
| 14 | She was thirty-nine now , and it was only in the past two years that she had put on weight . |
| 15 | According to Odent , fathers not only groan with a miscellany of aches and pains before , during and after the birth of a child , but also put on weight beforehand , then top it off with post-natal depression . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've put on weight , old boy . ’ |
| 17 | It 's made her look much better , she 's put on weight , and stopped smoking . |
| 18 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 19 | Badger road mortalities , however , are reduced now as badgers have put on weight for the winter and venture out from their setts less and less . |
| 20 | One of the girls made a crack that Rachaela had put on weight due to the food . |
| 21 | She 's put on weight . |
| 22 | What , he 's put on weight ? |
| 23 | She 's put on weight round here |
| 24 | Does that mean you 've put on weight ? |
| 25 | Anna 's put on weight in her face , has n't she ? |
| 26 | There 's proper fencing , and they 've put down tree bark , which makes me confident about letting Richard run around — he 's a bit ham-footed sometimes ! |
| 27 | Happily for everyone he has put down anchor |
| 28 | The right hon. Member for Blaby will be remembered as the Chancellor who dismissed rising inflation as a temporary blip and who , having put up interest rates to 15 per cent. , none the less assured us that the economy would have , to use his phrase , a soft landing . |
| 29 | Was it true that she had been one among others who had put up bail for Wullie Robertson ? |
| 30 | The Railside Revival Fund also put up cash for replacement gates at the North end of the station and working replicas of old lamps at the subway entrances . |