Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] off " in BNC.
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1 | After the questions , the woman lodger went away and they took off Dot 's clothes and touched and prodded at her neck , her ears and her throat . |
2 | Nothing further was said either to or by our guests , and they drove off the next day with many felicitations and expressions of gratitude . |
3 | Erm some additional sidings , mills over here , some additional sidings were put in , in the early part of this century , and they came off the this track erm just this side of on the left hand side of the level crossing , erm and went er up to a dead end er just along in the right hand side , er over now towards where factory is . |
4 | General Lu Han had 180000 troops with him and they lived off the country in the traditional Chinese manner , looting and exporting industrial plant to China . |
5 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
6 | But with Party Politics galloping on strongly up the run-in , Llewellyn always had victory in his sights and they held off Romany King for a popular win at 14–1 . |
7 | Dot felt herself being nudged awake , saw Gloria seize their two paper carriers , and they scrambled off the train at a dark station in the countryside . |
8 | They do , and they give off a nice piny smell as well |
9 | But they rounded off the day with a huge feast at their mountain lodge in the Snowdonia mountain range . |
10 | They used Hilbert 's wine glasses because none of them could tolerate drinking from plastic or cartons but they ate off paper plates of which they had bought a hundred . |