Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought they 'd gone off my land and started driving back to the house but then suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back . |
| 2 | They 'd set his hand and cast it , and then after a second set of plates a week later they 'd broken off the cast and operated . |
| 3 | They 'd taken off their ties |
| 4 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 5 | In that time they 'd sealed off the room and the hotel . |
| 6 | They threatened to cut off gas and electricity to Moldava , of which the Dnestr region supplied almost 80 per cent . |
| 7 | That reminds me of the time a group of schoolgirls wrote to the newsroom to say they liked to swim off the Gower in the middle of winter . |
| 8 | Despite all the sparks they had struck off one another she had felt they were forging a deep friendship based on mutual respect and acknowledgement of each other 's special qualities . |
| 9 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 10 | They had come off the M3 and were cruising on the dual carriageway A303 . |
| 11 | They had taken off the bells . |
| 12 | They had carried off children . |
| 13 | The economic recession and the sharp rise in unemployment of that year forced the Conservative government to change its policies before they had got off the ground . |
| 14 | The embossed iron doors were rusting and one of them had fallen off its hinges . |