Example sentences of "put [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Practical experience with stained glass must have led George Palmer to consider the nature of colour , and he was the first to put forward the modern theory of colour vision and colour blindness . |
| 62 | With that he started putting on the shabby jacket he always kept hanging on the hook on the back door . |
| 63 | Nothing annoyed Viola Machin more , as a general rule , than Hilda putting on the broad Lancashire . |
| 64 | ‘ What rotten luck , ’ Daisy said , putting on the upper-class voice that she used only when she was feeling guarded . |
| 65 | On the other hand ( or foot ) , consider putting on the right shoe ( R ) and then the left one ( L ) . |
| 66 | But you have to admit you do look very young and innocent , so you ca n't blame me for putting on the Big Daddy bit . ’ |
| 67 | You are still putting on The Non-objective World shows , are n't you ? |
| 68 | Meredith took the cocoa upstairs by the hall light and into the bedroom without putting on the light switch there . |
| 69 | I do n't remember the carpet coming up to hit me , nor finding it hard to breathe , nor at that moment did the judge put on the black cap and say that I must swing by the neck until I was dead . |
| 70 | Well wha what he said was he went up there there 's erm could they put on the front wheels to the back and the back wheels to the front did n't say anything the bloke said , well we ca n't charge you . |
| 71 | And after all , what price can you put on the immense satisfaction of taking dew-fresh vegetables to the kitchen within minutes of harvesting them ? |
| 72 | Did she put on the magic dress , the dress made of pain and courage and become herself transformed , into a human woman , lovely and gentle , whom some other wicked creature had once enchanted too ? |
| 73 | ‘ Oh , do n't put on the brave front for me ! |
| 74 | Everyone knows there is a quality difference between name brand personal computers and generic machines but the premium put on the famous products has become very small indeed . |
| 75 | She put on the other record , save Pergolesi for later when surely they 'd be alone . |
| 76 | Bourdieu 's own analysis of politics , however , stresses rather the division between the ‘ knows ’ and the ‘ do n't knows ’ , in relation to the pressure put on the general public to have an informed opinion on often very distant issues ( 1984 : 397–465 ) . |
| 77 | It was getting dark so he pulled the curtains and put on the overhead light . |
| 78 | At five minutes to five , Shirley , the typist who had been helping Ianthe to file some cards , covered up her typewriter , put on the black imitation leather coat she had just bought , and hurried away singing . |
| 79 | I also put on the real Sperzel locking tuning pegs as opposed to the fake ones that Fender are making now . |
| 80 | Miguel smoothed back his hair over his ears , put on the dark glasses , and reached for the keys to the jeep . |
| 81 | The officers , aged 19 and 20 , put on the fancy dress for a last night party at a camp for the disabled . |
| 82 | Hick at No. 3 is encouragement to the bowlers and deflation for his fellow-batsmen : hence the pressure put on the middle order in the past two years . |
| 83 | Like the effect of programme scheduling on TV audience sizes , a story put on the front page was much more likely to be read than something buried inside , and ‘ page traffic ’ figures show slightly higher noting of items on right-hand than left-hand pages . |
| 84 | As Thurlow sums him up , ‘ in everyday life he was a small insignificant man in an ordinary suit … but take off the uniform of the city solicitor and put on the running singlet and the track shoes and the transformation was amazing ’ . |
| 85 | When Martha was ready for home , she put on the pink bodice and Elizabeth dressed her hair . |
| 86 | Everyone put on the whole uniform including the grey raincoat on top , and I put on my raincoat also , I packed Tommy 's spare garments and my own clothes into the holdall , and was ready . |
| 87 | Within a moment of her arrival St Ives put on the rimless spectacles he detested , though usually he preferred to squint blindly down at the book rather than be seen in them . |
| 88 | They were shown into cubicles with inadequate curtains , where they were told to strip completely and put on the clean towelling gowns in there . |
| 89 | ( 7 ) so can he , but the main point about this system is the strain it puts on the other players |
| 90 | The following information needs to be put on the front page : ( 1 ) The agreement date and the name and address of the seller and the buyer . |