Example sentences of "[pers pn] off and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A top dressing of grit , though not essential , will show them off and avoid soil splashes on their delicate petals . |
| 2 | So you could steam them off and slap them out again . |
| 3 | Gradually harden them off and set them out in late May or early June when nights are no longer frosty . |
| 4 | Far better to broaden their remit through touring , education work , equal opportunities , it argues , than to cut them off and drive them into the arms of market forces . |
| 5 | Cut them off and kill them . |
| 6 | They could all go hang ; she 'd switch them off and go and submerge herself in the bath for half an hour . |
| 7 | It is a bit like using spectacles to see with , and taking them off and looking at them . |
| 8 | In early winter , when the first snows come , he wears socks in the boots , but when it gets cold he takes them off and replaces them with grass . |
| 9 | She looked aghast , tried to defend her view and then grew apologetic saying that newspaper offices were n't like others , the most extraordinary things turned up in the post all the time and it was reflex to laugh them off and throw them away . |
| 10 | I took them off and rode into Haleiwa with Michael . |
| 11 | I mean if you watch a child , and I have a seven year old boy , playing stacking cards or dominoes is the current thing in our house , watching them stack them and then knocking them off and watching them fall and the way they fall , the amount of work which is involved there in structures and forces and the nature of gravity and the way things behave under gravity fascinate them . |
| 12 | I mean if you watch a child , and I have a seven year old boy , playing stacking cards or dominoes is the current thing in our house , watching them stack them and then knocking them off and watching them fall and the way they fall , the amount of work which is involved there in structures and forces and the nature of gravity and the way things behave under gravity fascinate them . |
| 13 | I just went past these fellows and one of them shouted , ‘ Hey , speccy four-eyes , ’ and I ignored them like you told me and then they came and took them off and stamped on them . ’ |
| 14 | I like to look at other women wearing pretty jewels — I do n't want to grab them off and put them in my pocket … not frequently , anyhow . |
| 15 | Cos I mean , yo you can easily chop them off and put summat else smaller on ca n't you with lamps on ? |
| 16 | Take them off and look around . |
| 17 | She took them off and gave them back to him . |
| 18 | So , for example , we see the pupils messing around , ‘ to get back at the teachers for telling them off and putting them in detention , ’ or using physical violence after being unjustly accused of a misdemeanour , or being given a ‘ soft ’ teacher . |
| 19 | I mean that does n't help as well , I know Sainsbury 's or Tesco 's and you have to keep taking them off and putting them on |
| 20 | How often have we plodding climbers and walkers set them off and thought to ourselves : ‘ I wish I could travel as fast and effortlessly as that . ’ |
| 21 | At the end of spawning I had over 20 eggs plastered to the sides of the aquarium , so I took a razor blade and carefully scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub in their own aquarium water . |
| 22 | Once again I scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub . |
| 23 | Go to a pushbike shop they whip them off and whip them on for you you buy , you know , if you go out and buy one then just take wheel with you they 'll stick them straight on . |
| 24 | He chucks them off and puts them back on again . |
| 25 | Joyriders ripped them off and threw them from the window as they sped through the Blackbird Leys estate to the Oxford Speedway Stadium . |
| 26 | you see , er , er Mary was a bit silly because she 's had a lot of air plant , they just pulled them off and threw them out , now I would n't of done , done that because I would of kept some of those |
| 27 | Frustrations will cloud your horizons for a time but you will shake them off and emerge well pleased with your efforts . |
| 28 | I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall . |
| 29 | ‘ He has long arms and I think he 'll use them to hold me off and make it a long bout . |
| 30 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |