Example sentences of "put them on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Philby claimed he thoughtfully put them on the right track to divert suspicion from himself . |
2 | Unless I put them on the outside wood . |
3 | ‘ You do n't wash your feet and put them on the dirty floor , do you ? ’ he asked as he got ready for the guests who would soothe the painful passage towards the critics . |
4 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
5 | After emancipation the state could transform recruitment by enlisting more people each year but putting them on the reserve list much sooner . |