Example sentences of "put [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The principal adviser said that any factual errors would be put right as a matter of course and if there was a professional disagreement they could perhaps discuss how to change the wording of the report .
2 I 've put on over a stone
3 Knitters can choose from a whole range of techniques and their selection will be put on to a video , exclusive to them .
4 This is then drawn full-size and traced on to acetate film which is put on to a bed of clay covering the board .
5 The Officer was put on to a stretcher .
6 ‘ Its figures only measure waiting time from the day a patient is put on to a consultant 's in-patient or day case waiting list .
7 Subsequent Cabinet and Service Department screening in Whitehall reduced the figure to £4,700 million which was the most that the Treasury believed the economy could bear without being put on to a war footing .
8 Yeah he is he has put on about a stone since he 's stopped smoking though
9 At the age of 75 , Olivier visited Richard to see a play he was directing and attended a midnight student production he had put on in a Hollywood garage with other students .
10 I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape .
11 ‘ The trouble , ’ said Fred , ‘ is that your tournament is being put on by a bunch of aircraft public relations people . ’
12 The birds of a second group were put alone in a cage with a full milk container that had already been opened by the experimenters .
13 Unlike all too many pointy headstock/Floyd-equipped guitars , the KH Custom has been put together with a degree of understanding , and not just by numbers .
14 A big benefit of solid modelling is its ability to detect interference between components If , say , two components are put together on a screen .
15 My one pound , seventeen shillings had been put together over a number of years by saving money given me on my birthdays by relatives .
16 Budgie was a great part and I loved playing Frank Carver in Love Hurts erm and I did n't when when I was asked to do i , well w actually i it was n't a series , the writers and I were put together by a man called Alan who 's now my partner in Alfie as well he 's and he asked me why was n't I working and would he would I mind being put together with the two writers .
17 This triple-edged razor is probably put together by a bunch of names that we 're already familiar with and on a label strong enough to propel it into the club circus , but if it is n't it does n't matter ; there 's a future here if this is a first attempt .
18 It has been put together by a group of younger supporters , and the first issue comes complete with a free disabled driver sticker which should make parking at away games much easier .
19 The data , not previously available to Western scientists , was put together by a team at the University of East Anglia 's climatic research unit .
20 In recent years , photographs of newcomers to the profession have been put together in a volume expressly produced for that purpose , by Spotlight .
21 Now yes this is very very welcome indeed , but I do see it Mr Chairman in the experience of the past and that really with the hard work that you both have put in as a piece of paper it is now in the computer as far as I can see and I think there is a term now within agriculture and I will give you an example of this and I think it now , it may apply I think to our road system particular particularly in the north , north Suffolk , yeah I think the term is set-aside , and I hope that some time central government will acknowledge that within this eastern region certainly the Lowestoft area and Waking area we have very great problems , because these pieces of jigsaw do not come into the full picture , they 're put in place now and then and later and in apparent it is giving us a very great problem certainly within the last
22 Almost every word has been put in for a purpose and needs to be commented upon .
23 well drove out and turned , her bumper caught Mick 's wing and right up against the wheel so imagine to pull it out to drive it and the driver said oh wo n't claim on the insurance she said , erm , I 'll pay it , get three estimates and let me have them and Mick said it 's gon na be about three hundred quid , well if it had gone through the insurance he could then have put in for a hire car
24 Well you see and I 've also put in for a job for the the marina at Northampton which is another mental home .
25 No , what they mean is they if it 's put in on a Thursday so it 's there so when they , whatever they get in on a Friday they can pay out then but if it 's paid in on a Friday then
26 I think he must have been put in from a boat . "
27 As she hesitated outside Bob 's door she heard a muffled metallic thump from within , as of a saucepan being put down on a gas-stove , then the sound of a tap being turned on .
28 A further three were put down by a vet .
29 These were swiftly put down by a detachment of the newly established Armed Police firing tear gas into the crowds .
30 Shortly after this point , the revolt at the ranch is put down in a shoot-out with the police .
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