Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] off [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I might be able to cart them off to Joanne and Emma to give them to their mum 's on Mother 's Day |
| 2 | WE were the first to tip you off about Ryan Giggs , who has become a household name at Manchester United … now we 're telling you to watch out for another youngster . |
| 3 | So while it was wrong for the IRA to let off bombs in Northern Ireland it was quite all right for the DGSE to let them off in New Zealand . |
| 4 | Peace Corps was willing to send me off to Honduras , but I did n't feel right about it . |
| 5 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 6 | and they have that right to say well it 's in the national court we 're going to leave it there , erm , well so , so I think we would be reluctant to see it go to the commission erm Delimitis does say in the paragraph after what , after fifty three it says well your alternatives is to send it off to Luxembourg |
| 7 | so I 'll get them to send it off to Linda |
| 8 | I got leave to see him off at Euston . |
| 9 | Dana went on with his friend to see her off at Le Havre , while I made my way to London , where I was joined by Dana a few days later . |
| 10 | Anita was small and blonde and full of life ; she seemed to hit it off with Lizzy straight away . |
| 11 | Emily got Stanley to drop them off at Vic 's house ; or rather his father 's house , since strictly speaking Vic 's address was the shed . |
| 12 | Their daughter , Georgiana , is a pathetic creature , utterly crushed by the magnificence of her parents ; she falls an easy prey to the Lammles ' schemes to marry her off to Fledgeby , but is saved at the last moment by a change of heart on Mrs Lammle 's part . |
| 13 | But I had wanted to break it off after Taunton . |
| 14 | ‘ By morning I 'd decided to take myself off to Prague . ’ |
| 15 | This is all going to cut you off from London a bit , but I do n't see that there 's really any other way at the moment . ’ |
| 16 | The change involved no religious problems because the larger colony had been launched for much the same reasons : a number of Puritans , of whom the largest single group came from East Anglia , had formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and obtained a charter to settle there in a firm determination to cut themselves off from England and the elements of Roman Catholicism they detected in the Church of England . |