Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 2 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 3 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 4 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 5 | The mathematics were simple : £10,000 would enable them to fatten up their piglets , sell them off in the autumn , clear their overdraft and continue preserving all the surviving Old Spot bloodlines . |
| 6 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 7 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 8 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 9 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 10 | And dad could knock me off on the way to get the papers . |
| 11 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 12 | I draw in the markings of each Friesian heifer — they 're all unique , you see — and send them off to the breed society , then they 're registered . ’ |
| 13 | It was the Richard Branson that would throw anybody in a swimming-pool — literally and metaphorically — often forgetful of the cost , be it of a junior employee 's ruined wristwatch or an editor 's dignity ( the watch could be paid for afterwards : dignity was harder to repair ) ; the Richard Branson that , when playing wicket-keeper in a company cricket match , would tie cotton round the bails and then ‘ when the batsman has been in long enough ’ yank them off with a roar of laughter , all the more resounding for the look of fury on the fallguy 's face . |
| 14 | If you 're a bit large on the hips , top them off with a loose T-shirt . |
| 15 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 16 | The wheelbarrow seemed to want to shake me off like a steer at a rodeo . |
| 17 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 18 | The conventional way of cleaning fabrics is to cart them off to the washing machine , wash them , dry them , and cart them back again . |
| 19 | She marvelled even more though when Cara 's basic efficiency surfaced as she declared , ‘ By my calculations you 'll still have time to get down to Dover after you 've dropped me off at the airport . ’ |
| 20 | And he was still worrying about how to pass himself off as the long-dead Bard when police nicked him dithering outside a bank . |
| 21 | Do you mean we 've let you off for the evening ? |
| 22 | If you are not , and I have to stress this very carefully then they will call the nearest available garage and the garage will come there very quickly and they will tow you off into the nearest exit and there they will leave you and that can cost you probably , in excess of ninety pounds . |
| 23 | Adam was so extreme ; they really would cart him off to a padded cell one of these days . |
| 24 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
| 25 | Florence was moving from one foot to the other as she helped her off with the coat . |
| 26 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 27 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 28 | The miniature St Christopher on it had a brief treat before Sorrel cooled him off in no uncertain terms . |
| 29 | Whoever killed Kemp had time : time to cart him off to the river , ant dump him there — gently , Lewis — without even a splash to startle the cygnets … ’ |
| 30 | Drops her off at the hospital . ’ |