Example sentences of "to put [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It will be good to see the England lads again and to put on the international shirt , ’ says Gazza . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These will be handy when they need to put on the pink tie to go to the youth club disco . |
| 8 | We 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 , we 're going to make everybody including Athens proud . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They were going to put on the big show . |
| 11 | I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Governments which have acted in the name of free enterprise would be most unlikely to put up the necessary funds themselves . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ They learn how to survive without tents as well as how to put up the issued tents . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In three minutes I managed to put out the whole fire , and the lovely old building was safe . |