Example sentences of "[verb] put [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Almost anything , ’ said Roland , suddenly wanting to put him off the trail . |
| 2 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 3 | ‘ I decided to put them off the scent . ’ |
| 4 | When Johnson , as we know he did , dipped into Boswell 's Hebrides Journal , its tone can not have put him off the notion of Boswell writing a Life . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have thought she 'd have put us out the servants ’ door . ’ |
| 6 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |