Example sentences of "have [vb pp] off their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethiopia 's army is immense , with some 430,000 men ; but they are mostly unwilling conscripts , and the Soviet Union has cut off their supplies . |
| 2 | They 'd taken off their ties |
| 3 | Most of the grandstands were full and the sun was warm enough for the men to have taken off their jackets and the women their cardigans . |
| 4 | Walkers and climbers who get into trouble are often found later to have strayed off their intended course . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the Pisans had carried off their booty and used a part of it to start the rebuilding of the cathedral , as an inscription in it still records . |
| 6 | Three bottles had exploded off their tops and there were wine stains on the walls . |
| 7 | By late afternoon at least 50 passengers had called off their trips on Flight 51 , while French airport police stepped up security that had already been tightened a week ago because of a feared terrorist attack . |
| 8 | The men had taken off their stiff collars , but were still uncomfortable in waistcoats and tight trousers and big boots . |
| 9 | Luke and Sonny had taken off their jackets and high hard collars and now sat with their shirt sleeves rolled up , the noon sun shining through the windows warming their backs . |
| 10 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 11 | That , and the discovery that she could not bear a man near her in the early days after the rape ; so she had feigned an illness , explained as the consequence of her breaking her engagement with Havvie , which , of course , had caused an immense furore inside and outside of society , and Mama and Papa had put off their visit to England , and sent her loving letters , for she had written that she had discovered that she did not really love Havvie at all , had merely been beglamoured by his appearance , name and title . |
| 12 | Any mothers who 've married off their daughters in this dictatorial way , saying you must have this dress ! |
| 13 | So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium ! |
| 14 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 15 | They have dusted off their old blueprints — or even their old stock — and entered the market again . |
| 16 | Frame Technology Corp , San Jose and Verity Inc , Mountain View , have called off their nuptials announced in January ( CI No 2,087 ) , but Frame will take a $2m equity holding in Verity , which develops knowledge-based document retrieval software . |
| 17 | I have locked off their suite . |
| 18 | One god raises his hand to the tump-line to slip it off his forehead , whereas others have slipped off their load , and hold them in their laps . |
| 19 | Bushes and shrubs , uncared for , burst bonds like fat women who have left off their corsets , and now many spilled out in mantraps of thorny undergrowth . |