Example sentences of "put [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The invitations can be in the shape of a banana , make a large banana to put on the front door , and decorate the room with bananas and long yellow balloons . |
| 32 | The invitations can be clock-shaped with the hands pointing to the starting time , and you can make a large clock to put on the front door . |
| 33 | The only idea that seemed feasible was for the Collector to put on the rusty suit of armour which stood in the banqueting hall and to go out there with a scythe . |
| 34 | It was the only Italian name I could think of in a hurry and I did n't have the nerve to put on the right accent to go with it . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ It will be good to see the England lads again and to put on the international shirt , ’ says Gazza . |
| 36 | We dismounted from the BMW and Werewolf slipped on a pair of gold-rimmed shades , which reminded me to put on the plain glass Yuppie specs I 'd borrowed from Fly . |
| 37 | These will be handy when they need to put on the pink tie to go to the youth club disco . |
| 38 | We 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 , we 're going to make everybody including Athens proud . |
| 39 | er I do n't know how to answer that question , all I can say is we 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 and we 're going to make everybody , including Athens I hope , proud . |
| 40 | They were going to put on the big show . |
| 41 | I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda . |
| 42 | The new workforce has provided the resources to put together the new reports , and to provide more support for ACARD . |
| 43 | In this final stage of the diet we are looking to put together the best diet for your own metabolism and make-up , based on your findings . |
| 44 | And as if that was n't difficult enough , they were given just six hours to put together the entire production . |
| 45 | Troops trying to put down the ethnic conflict in South Ossetia ( in which Dzhava was one of the principal centres ) were transferred to relief operations . |
| 46 | The parallels between the methods used to suppress unrest in Lhasa and those used to put down the student-led demonstrations in Peking made the award a double indictment of China 's human-rights record . |
| 47 | Wheeler motioned him to an easy chair and made to put away the handsome leatherbound notebook in which he had been writing . |
| 48 | Though Clyde Vaughan ( 24 points ) , Scott Wilke ( 23 ) and Russ Saunders ( 20 ) were all firing , they struggled to put away the weakened Riders , 89-88 . |
| 49 | Governments which have acted in the name of free enterprise would be most unlikely to put up the necessary funds themselves . |
| 50 | Scientists and engineers at the conference , however , foresaw a major collaboration between academics and European financiers who would seek a permit to put up the estimated $130 million to design the garbage ships and capsules . |
| 51 | By making it hard to put up the tall blocks of flats of the sort that span the skylines of most capitals , the government condemns Tokyo to low-rise , cramped housing . |
| 52 | When he was an undergraduate at Christchurch in nineteen seventy-five , he and a friend , Tim Sanderson , decided to put up the biggest folly in the world in Christchurch meadow : |
| 53 | ‘ They learn how to survive without tents as well as how to put up the issued tents . |
| 54 | UEFA also agreed to put back the forthcoming tie 24 hours after a request from the Blues who were concerned about the damage live TV would inflict on gate receipts . |
| 55 | Q plans to put out the final part of his novel on video with the narration over Super 8 footage shot by Don Letts , before issuing a DEADMEAT ‘ remix ’ mass-market edition , and then moving on to a new book to be called Supermodel and concerned with , well , supermodels . |
| 56 | Because of the amount of work needed to put out the burning tip , it may be some time before this area of outstanding natural beauty becomes a smoke free zone . |
| 57 | In three minutes I managed to put out the whole fire , and the lovely old building was safe . |
| 58 | The final stage in preparing the ground for the elaboration of particular arguments for specific groups is to put forward the broad arguments presented by the National Curriculum History Working Group in their formal report in April 1990 . |
| 59 | On Tuesday the eighth of February as I understand it that meeting then will report to a Council meeting of the Council , so I would not wish to put forward the suggested resolutions that are on the order paper , er I think I would want to suggest to you ladies and gentlemen for decisions today to whether you wish or not and then I would suggest that the appropriate decision is to await the of the City additional Council and therefore bring this matter forward to our Committee on March the twenty ninth . |
| 60 | As the argument developed , I understood him to submit that as the remedy sought by the plaintiff was itself an equitable one , talk of strict estoppel was inappropriate , and he was content to put forward the alleged assurance and other matters to be considered in the exercise of my discretion . |