Example sentences of "to put [pron] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 2 | ‘ I decided to put them off the scent . ’ |
| 3 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 4 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |
| 5 | And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank . |
| 6 | We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in . |
| 7 | Having done my best to put you off the Bar , I must add that the public interest strongly requires that the profession should continue to attract a flow of top quality recruits . |
| 8 | ‘ Is n't it possible , though , that the other girl could be a hundred kilometres from here and that this one was dumped here to put you off the scent ? ’ |
| 9 | Well you 'll have to put him down a bit more carefully than that . |
| 10 | ‘ Almost anything , ’ said Roland , suddenly wanting to put him off the trail . |
| 11 | To put her off the scent and give her something else to think about , Rory had put Candy in charge of organising the children 's party . |
| 12 | I mean you 've co I mean a long , you know not that long ago , you were sort of tending to put it off a lot . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Jonathan wanted us to put ours up the weekend and I thought well |
| 15 | Of course , it could be a clever charade orchestrated by Rene to put us off the track . |
| 16 | No doubt there was method in the smugglers ' madness , perhaps the very unsuitability of the area was a ploy to put us off the scent . |