Example sentences of "put [pers pn] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You did n't put me off exactly . |
| 2 | ‘ You will not put me off so easily , Alfred the Learned , ’ said the Friar . |
| 3 | Two failed marriages did n't put me off . |
| 4 | Ranjan Gohin , 36 , summed up the mood saying : ‘ I 've been working at John Lewis for 14 years and I do n't think this will put me off . |
| 5 | The language is a bit spicy but it did n't put me off in the slightest . ’ |
| 6 | Despite what happened , it wo n't put me off . |
| 7 | So I 'm afraid that did put me off . |
| 8 | Yes that did put me off . |
| 9 | It might put me off sailing for good ! ’ |
| 10 | cos i it does it does n't put me off I get very self conscious |
| 11 | Do n't try and put me off , Luke . |
| 12 | Would the smell put me off sex ? |
| 13 | It did n't put me off then , and it does n't now . |
| 14 | But PC Jobson , a policeman for seven years , said : ‘ This wo n't put me off the job . |
| 15 | Yeah , I thought of being that once but I would n't mind it in the wards , but I would n't want to be in the operating theatre , I do n't know why , the blood do n't put me off or anything , but |
| 16 | Then she keeps saying to do n't try and put me off . |
| 17 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 18 | See , blood do n't put me off or anything , but |
| 19 | Some piece of rudeness from Gina would put them off . |
| 20 | Even hooking and losing fish in the middle of a shoal does not put them off when they are feeding ravenously . |
| 21 | Once , my partner and I were not allowed to play on a vacant court , just because my friend had a brown sweatshirt on , and there was a veterans doubles match on the next court — we might put them off by playing on the vacant court ! |
| 22 | A survey conducted in the United States in 1981 revealed that directors considered the feature that made a company most attractive as a take-over target was that it had ‘ excellent management ’ and the majority of respondents regarded management inefficiency as something which would actually put them off . |
| 23 | This snowstorm might put them off , but we would do well to be extra watchful tonight . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm afraid I ca n't put them off any longer . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Never let anything put them off . |
| 26 | Mm , well , yes then I should put them off it , erm |
| 27 | I mean you do n't want to kind of put them off too much erm |
| 28 | But they vow it wo n't put them off policing . |
| 29 | But the time will soon come when I trust we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies , when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh and only the spark of the spirit will remain . |
| 30 | you know , you just want to sit back and er as far as I would think is to keep calm and say well I , I am right , you know , erm but without being too forceful in that way because then that would put them off |