Sentence examples for thrown him off from inspiring English sources

The reflection of the sun on the building's mirrored panes had thrown him off — "I am like an ant scurrying around under a magnifying glass," he wrote — but it was an "irrevocable" experience.

Moving to Houston, to the Oaks, had thrown him off kilter.

When asked today whether the disclosures had thrown him off stride, Mr. McCain said, "The key to a successful campaign is not to let it".

That role won him an Oscar, but the phony sentimentality of the film — its pasteboard-gothic conception of late-20th-century American life — may have thrown him off course.

Mangold did impressive work in "3:10 to Yuma" with such volatile actors as Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, but Cruise's nervous energy seems to have thrown him off.

"I heard a great quote the other day from Babe Ruth: 'It's tough to beat up a guy that never quits.' " Asked what has been wrong with Swisher, Girardi said pitchers had thrown him off-speed pitches when they were behind in the count, and Swisher has been unable to resist.

This threw him off completely.

"Just throw him off," says Mat.

In the many negotiations with landowners, no one throws him off balance or outbluffs him.

Spike: "I threw him off a bridge near St. Mark's".

Suppressing that was part of what threw him off his game" in that Denver debate.