Example sentences of "put on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You put on a head and face cover , ’ she explained almost mechanically , ‘ go into a chamber naked , and come out covered in white powder . |
| 2 | ‘ We put on a substitute , Tony Dobson , as a second marker and Waddle still produced crosses . ’ |
| 3 | Jacob , trim in his dinner-jacket , his dark eyes sparkling darker against the greying of his thick hair ; Leo , blond , relaxed , despite the effort it had cost him to put on a suit for the occasion . |
| 4 | So you 'll have to put on a bit more flesh if you want filmstar legs . |
| 5 | " Would you have me get a heart attack just because you have n't the sense to put on a dress fitting for your age ? " |
| 6 | Léonie decided there was no time to put on a dress . |
| 7 | She escaped into the house and went through to her bedroom to put on a dress . |
| 8 | She crept stealthily along the gallery , not daring to put on a light in case she should wake Luke , past his room , feeling carefully in the half-darkness . |
| 9 | He shrugs like he was putting on a jacket . |
| 10 | ‘ I can put on a dress and go to an awards ceremony . |
| 11 | She 'd put on a dress for lunch . |
| 12 | She put on a jacket , though he would know why she had the jacket on , and went out , under his cold furious dissecting gaze . |
| 13 | Aunt Margaret told her to dress herself in her nicest dress and Melanie put on a dress she had never worn in her uncle 's house , a best dress from the old days , dark green corduroy with lace at the neck . |
| 14 | After that she put on a dress of burnt sienna which contrasted with her pale gold hair and made her feel more feminine . |
| 15 | He brushed his brown wavy hair , put on a top-hat , and went down the stairs to the street . |
| 16 | He cut off his shoulder length hair , put on a suit , and started dealing with bankers . |
| 17 | ‘ Leith 's just been telling me that you both work for the same firm , ’ he put on a front for the rest of the world to joke . |
| 18 | Hovering in the background to it all was the commanding officer ( played by Eric Barker , also to be seen in a few of the other early ‘ Carry On ’ films ) and his instruction that was so familiar to every ‘ sprog ’ who ever put on a uniform , ‘ Carry on Sergeant ’ . |
| 19 | We wrote these extraordinary shows , and then I just put on a dinner-jacket , started singing and gave them up . ’ |
| 20 | I stay at home and my partner — for I 'm not a wife — puts on a suit and goes out of the door to work . |
| 21 | A clever alien wants to steal the spaceship , and knows about the laser torch , so it puts on a blindfold as well . |
| 22 | Naturally , it must not be put on a square which is on the same row or file or diagonal as another piece . |
| 23 | Amaryllis had put on a dress which had arrived only that noon from London . |
| 24 | All the same , most of them were splendid and she was glad she had put on a dress today . |
| 25 | This should not be put on a back burner . |
| 26 | Hywel , supposed Lydia , must have briefly courted her , have put on a suit , taken her out to a café , been moderately gay . |
| 27 | Being a property tax — there is not now any contention between the two main parties about that — we can either tax the kind of house and say , for example , that all three-bedroom properties shall be taxed the same , in which case my hon. Friends should be aware that we would soon have tremendous anomalies as the same tax is placed on a Mayfair flat as is put on a flat in a mining village , or we can have regional banding , and then there must be boundaries between regions . |
| 28 | Because everybody was treated equally at the start of their Legion service , Mike , who had learnt his killing in the bush war in Rhodesia , was treated the same as a South Vietnamese man who had never put on a uniform in his life . |