Example sentences of "them [adj] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should have seen our tea : ham , salad , cheese , crackers , potatoes , hard-boiled eggs , bread-and-butter , trifle — all at once , mind you — cream cake , sherry , cups of tea — ’ She counted them all off on her fingers , smiling innocently as she spoke . |
| 2 | Here Lewis chipped in with his first contribution : ‘ What about shipping them all off on one of these circular tours you know , on the buses ? ’ |
| 3 | Or if you have a number of outstanding debts , such as credit card charges and hire purchase deals , a remortgage can pay them all off at a much lower rate of interest to help you reduce your outgoings . |
| 4 | And I I remember being eight , nine , ten , eleven years old , and knowing them all off by heart , |
| 5 | so it , so I 'm tempted , not to hand , you know , to take them all off before handing them out |
| 6 | As the mandroids calmly gassed the beaked exter and carted them both off to be flung into the street , I slid on to one of the unstained seats at the table and cheerfully looked around for a servaton . |
| 7 | They started to fight about who had the most crayons and mother tried to intervene and tell them both off for making a noise . |