Example sentences of "off and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When ‘ dancing ’ with the tie on , it is advisable to fasten the lower part to the shirt with a tie clip or safety pin , otherwise the weight of the battery may cause the tie to fly off and strike some unsuspecting person ! |
| 2 | She shrugged , slipped the one-piece off and kicked off her briefs , then stood there , her hands at her sides , making no effort to cover her nakedness . |
| 3 | Santerre apologised , he had no key , so Southgate hacked the padlock off and kicked the door open . |
| 4 | ‘ We have interviewed 25 of our key customers across the on , off and export markets and the message which is coming through is that we need to get much closer to our customers in order to respond to their changing needs , ’ said L&QA CSSO On Trade Manager . |
| 5 | When God in his wisdom chose not to bless women with the same convenient appendage through which men pass water , he left them with little choice but to strip off and squat . |
| 6 | A red biplane from Crowfield had taken off and gone into a loop when he came out of the loop he could n't pull the plane level and he crashed into a field . |
| 7 | Normally , I get my flowers on Oxford Street just after 7.0 p.m. when the barrowboys have knocked off and gone to the pub , leaving loads of blooms for the Westminster Council rubbish collectors later on . |
| 8 | The second is : every command you give must be broken only by you , by which I mean do not tell your dog to sit then go off and make a cup of tea and forget all about him . |
| 9 | ‘ I know he 's tired out and that 's the way he relaxes , but I long to switch the television off and make him listen to me , ’ she complained . |
| 10 | ‘ He has long arms and I think he 'll use them to hold me off and make it a long bout . |
| 11 | Er and rush off and make a new will as soon as you can as well as . |
| 12 | Then he 'd have a , then when he 'd done that he 'd have a erm , oh I think they used to call it a a wax ball , er to rub round the end of the sole and have a an iron that he would rub this wax into the seam between your your your shoe itself and the leather to seal that off and make it waterproof . |
| 13 | They do n't want anyone sneaking off and getting the shot of the decade . ’ |
| 14 | But it was hard for us to see exactly how we had altered , beyond having some rough edges polished off and getting a better focus on some of our ideas and ambitions . |
| 15 | It is peculiar that the hedgehogs should be used as the balls , especially as they keep wandering off and getting into hedgehog fights . |
| 16 | that it came to make the amazing sounds , okay , and then after that , er , this is another thing it leads to is there 's going to be a break down in your sound machine , okay , there 's gon na be a break down in your , in your entire robotic machine , movement in our machine , and that break down could be due to some of the workers going off and getting some of them erm you know , one , er part of the machine breaking down on the whole , sound changes , the movement changes and we 're going to watch how this robotic machine changes as it breaks down , it could be sound shut down it could be it could be anything you choose , but I want it anyway , leave it to you so all you do is choose a profession , think of something that is , comes to life to you , in movement and in sound , okay , so let's get into groups of , see how many they are , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , okay let's get into groups of four then , okay is that right , one , two , three , four , one , oh five , four , five , just get your group into a work in , I thank you if you do n't get |
| 17 | Straightaway I went off and had a bright red flash put in across the front of my hair . |
| 18 | He was well off and had therefore no difficulty in accomplishing this . |
| 19 | ‘ We are concerned she may be a young girl who became pregnant and has not told her parents , or is a young girl in care who ran off and had the baby over the Christmas weekend . |
| 20 | During Sunday morning warm-up , Jackie 's engine — his and the team 's favourite — went off and had to be replaced . |
| 21 | It was lit by hurricane lamps , and it too was roped off and had another ‘ No Entry ’ sign . |
| 22 | Aggie had taken her hat and coat off and had dropped on to the settle , and as he entered the room she said immediately , ‘ Somethin' will have to be … ’ but paused as Millie came in on Ben 's heels , and she nodded towards her saying , ‘ Go and take your things off and set the tray . ’ |
| 23 | How could you kiss someone properly when you knew they had let you sit there for hours waiting for them while they went off and had dinner with someone else ? |
| 24 | In early 1991 , however , there was some evidence that land prices had levelled off and had even begun to fall . |
| 25 | And so we took a piece off and had it analysed , we have a little laboratory which we use to analyse things like that , and it turned out to be what we expected , the most common colour of medieval furniture was red . |
| 26 | She 'd slipped her shoes off and had her feet tucked under her bottom , her legs demurely covered by that gauzy dress , but it was too late , he 'd seen … |
| 27 | He was n't put off and said that if I would please stay he would dance every dance with me . |
| 28 | Peterson backed off and said he would not ask Jones to cancel his talk . |
| 29 | ‘ Gary is enjoying his time off and said he did n't miss the gruelling work that the lads did in training . ’ |
| 30 | Caledor sent his ambassador back with his beard shaved off and said if Gotrek wanted compensation he should come to Ulthuan and collect it . |