Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 2 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 3 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And dad could knock me off on the way to get the papers . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The conventional way of cleaning fabrics is to cart them off to the washing machine , wash them , dry them , and cart them back again . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | And he was still worrying about how to pass himself off as the long-dead Bard when police nicked him dithering outside a bank . |
| 14 | Do you mean we 've let you off for the evening ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Florence was moving from one foot to the other as she helped her off with the coat . |
| 17 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 18 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 19 | 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 … ’ |
| 20 | Drops her off at the hospital . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Or drops her off at the beach house . ’ |
| 22 | There were even police standing in the wings ready to cart everybody off to the nearest station should the forbidden line be recited . |
| 23 | He glanced involuntarily at Jennifer Morgan who said she would make tea , which was what her mother preferred , and bore her off to the kitchen . |
| 24 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 25 | Fill in the coupon on this page and send it off with the appropriate cheque |
| 26 | The purchaser would take his own blood sample , send it off to the laboratory , and await the results by post . |
| 27 | To apply for supplementary pension get leaflet SB 1 from the post office , fill in your name and address , sign it and send it off in the pre-paid envelope . |
| 28 | Each ship is built for the coronation of the ruler and on his or her death bears them off to the Isle of the Dead to rest at last with the ancient rulers of Ulthuan . |
| 29 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 30 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |