Example sentences of "to put [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , you want to put me ashore , so unless you expect me to swim — ’ She broke off , gasping as the boat , no longer held fast by its anchor , swung wildly . |
| 2 | Is that why you wanted to put me ashore ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yet you wanted to put me ashore . ’ |
| 4 | In the lobby of that hotel , on the following evening , I was to meet a Mrs Knelle , the friend of an English friend , and she was going to put me up at her house in the country . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's very kind of you to put me up at such short notice , but I really would n't dream of imposing . |
| 6 | Mrs Pritchard was going to put me up . ’ |
| 7 | By this time it was approaching midnight and when I got back to camp and rang Bomber Command the duty officer was most reluctant to put me through to " Bomber " Harris . |
| 8 | ‘ You will have to put me out of your mind , ’ she said quietly . |
| 9 | And he warned his opponents : ‘ If you are going over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game . |
| 10 | He says : ‘ If you 're going to go over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game because I 'll be coming back for you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What sort of place are they going to put me in ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Why are you trying to put me off ? ’ |
| 13 | Christopher 's voice broke into her thoughts : ‘ You 're trying to put me off . ’ |
| 14 | Come on , you 've gabbled enough and you 're just trying to put me off my game . |
| 15 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 16 | Probably even all those long walks she says she takes are a pretence to put me off . |
| 17 | Er even the headmaster said , he tried to put me off . |
| 18 | trying to put me off it or not but |
| 19 | ‘ No , I did n't think you did , so kindly go away and stop trying to put me off . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ How dare you come here trying to put me off my guard with some absurd story ? ’ he countered with simmering hostility , regarding her belligerent stance with brooding interest . |
| 21 | ‘ Did he even exist or was he an invention to put me off ? |
| 22 | ‘ Ask Grandson Richard to put me down , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ People are always trying to put me down and I have always come back better . ’ |
| 24 | So he was determined to put me down . |
| 25 | The King agreed , and ordered his officials to put me down on Balnibarbi , and show me round the capital , Lagado . |
| 26 | I have been encouraged to find that the young are not so predisposed to put me aside at the age of seventy and that a new generation of students and artists regard me as something of a cult figure . |
| 27 | It was characteristic of the radical agitational movements in Derry to echo ideas which were already widely accepted , but to put them forward in a more aggressive , combative and militant style . |
| 28 | The basis of lateral thinking is to be provocative with your ideas and to put them forward however bizarre or ridiculous they sound on first hearing . |
| 29 | He then made one or two suggestions for limiting her liability , but got the impression that she was indifferent to his suggestions as though she thought it would be a waste of time to put them forward . |
| 30 | It 's a powerful , emotional song and looks set to put them firmly on the chart map indeed , it entered The Northern ‘ s North-East chart at No 1 this week . |