Example sentences of "put [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neat salt , put on at a light rate of spread is just enough to de-ice the road surface . |
| 2 | Secure loosely with a piece of string or an elastic band and put on to a microwave-safe roasting rack over a disk containing 3 tbsp stock . |
| 3 | The Peugeot 106 XR 1.1 car put up as a special incentive to enter the event was won by Golf Monthly reader , Tom Allwyn Davies from Ipswich . |
| 4 | They arrived late at night at the colliery house where Patterson 's parents lived , put up at a nearby hotel and the next day toured the working-men 's clubs before attending the wedding where Norman 's good looks made him the talk of all the women present . |
| 5 | In Hatfield Chase today , you can see a sign put up by a local farmer with a sense of humour . |
| 6 | Persian values also made themselves felt at native satrapal courts : a recently published Greek verse inscription from Lycian Xanthos , put up by a local dynast , echoes Persian educational ideals ( ‘ riding , shooting and speaking the truth ’ , Hdt. i. 136 ) when it speaks of : The dynast in question is called Arbinas : he is certainly a Lycian but it is thought that the form of the name is Persian . |
| 7 | Perhaps only barely by then , until she managed to get something behind her , the reserve , the " something put by for a rainy day " which neither she nor anyone else in her hand-to-mouth world could ever quite hold together . |