Example sentences of "you put a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With gold being so heavy , if you put a panful of gravel into motion under water the gold will work down into the pan base . |
| 2 | That 's you open the you know you put a layer of polish on so much and sandpapered it down . |
| 3 | The C can change if you copy it to another column and the C put it to the right the C changes to a D if you put a dollar in front of them both then neither can change . |
| 4 | As a simple product of British schools I am amazed that the following rather obvious point has not been grasped in America or Botswana : if you put a school address or your age , they do n't send you the booze . |
| 5 | Well , water meters proved that wrong , because what happens is , Billy is over there laughing at me , if you put a water meter in , to get that water back in the main what does it need ? |
| 6 | Can I can I do you think I could just ask to run through all these , cos er you you put a couple of strange tunes |
| 7 | If he had a white face , you put a mark down that way see . |
| 8 | When you put a stop to all that , when the place is silent and empty , all that is left is a large , ramshackle shed — cold , filthy and depressing . |
| 9 | Yet I still do n't understand you — remember when you put a stop to my having dinner Chez Auguste ? ’ |
| 10 | You did n't want any clothes on , you put a pair of trousers on , that 's all you want and a little old thin shirt and chip all this stuff off the what we call the crown . |
| 11 | but I tell you what you know the mark two , have you ever displayed a coder and it rings , rings the bell when the intercom rings , rings the bell if the trunk 's designed to ring and all that , you know when you get the , you put a call on hold and it comes back and it goes brr , brr , brr , the bell starts going ding , ding , ding , a right noise and apparently that 's standard in the system I think that was a bit of an oversight to be honest with you |
| 12 | So erm , I went out and I had my hair , oh I 've had me hair permed again but you ca n't tell unless you put a brush through it though |
| 13 | Now it was a anti-tank weapon only you put a bottle in the tube , or a , a container that had got a i a liquid , I 've been trying to think what it is , can you tell me a liquid that bursts into fl flame when it 's exposed ? |
| 14 | You might also be unlucky if you put a foot through the bedroom ceiling while repairing the inside of the roof ; but you should be covered if you were insulating the loft . |
| 15 | It seems to hang threateningly over the village , with massive detached boulders of slate ready to topple if you put a foot wrong , and great heaps of rubble lie where they were detached from the rock face by gunpowder , which was also made in the vicinity . |
| 16 | The Eurythmics song finishes and you put a foot on the ghetto-blaster 's power cable and drag it smartly across the bathroom tiles , pulling the lead from the back of the machine . |
| 17 | Say you put a foot wrong , are you not game to be coursed and spoiled , like other women , that I listen to you like a craven creature as I am ? ’ |
| 18 | He 's the kind of big game that hunts you back if you put a foot wrong . |
| 19 | Is that the one you put a spud in ? |
| 20 | If you put a clock bit on there |
| 21 | And then you put a return in at the end of that and it goes back to the margin again . |
| 22 | Er er it was like a Molotov co bo cocktail , a thing like that and you put it in the , in the tube and you put a wad of cotton , gun cotton behind it closed the flap at the back onto er just a latch , like a , a door a gate latch which locked it , then fired the cap which fired the gun cotton which sent the well then we we 're trying this out on the waste ground where the , that was then , where the waterworks ' offices are now in Green Lane , well there that was , at that time , that was a glue factory that was the glue factory there ooh . |
| 23 | At the top end you put a wad of chemical explosive and beneath it a slug of Plutonium 239 . |
| 24 | er and then just put some er on bottom of a dish if you put a mixture |
| 25 | If you put a pint of beer out for him he would n't drink it . |
| 26 | I think the last the last heading you got , well you put a heading down before we finished and that was organisational behaviour and modification . |
| 27 | ‘ The same lamb you put a rope round the neck of and then chased into the German minefield ? ’ |
| 28 | You took took a bucket of water out , you put a bucket of water in . |
| 29 | If you put a pussycat down and a bear , say that was down there you 've got to match up with that duck . |
| 30 | You put a test in , do n't you ? |