Example sentences of "off and [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You lie on your front and we actually take , ask you to take either your dress or your blouse off and we put towels over you . |
| 2 | GUIL : I do n't believe it — A shore , a harbour , say — and we get off and we stop someone and say — Where 's the King ? |
| 3 | Well , send it off and we win a hamper . |
| 4 | Well — he would not , and the laird turned him out for it — he turned him out and sent him off and we have had no land since and he put nobody else into Upper Farrochil — he only wanted it for himself . |
| 5 | Under the Tories all the family silver was sold off and we have very little left to show for it . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't know how the end starts off and we have n't singed it properly , one , two , three , four , five , six , we have six , six |
| 7 | Yes so lots of games for United to play at the moment with the postponements , a lot of mid-week games , a lot of games up here at the Manor , but erm as so often happens with United , after a good performance or a little a good run , they never quite do it at home do they , they never quite kill sides off and they draw in games that they 've played very well as they have done today . |
| 8 | ‘ I have to walk to the bus stop , and when I wait for the bus there 's some of them slag me off and they push you about . |
| 9 | So what they had done it had a big slab there and it had got on it er The World 's Largest Slate Mine , and perhaps you 've seen it yourself they 've rubbed the T off and they put V and somebody 's done a very good job of it er in the same paint and everything . |
| 10 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 11 | They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end . |
| 12 | see so if th if they get time off and they want extra men , they phone 'em up or somebody with a boat got bloke in the erm radio tower , cos you got a radio tower on the dock now which every ship that come into port or leave the port have to go through the radio tower and that man 's employed twenty four hours a day , seven days a week . |
| 13 | The bark starts them all off and they howl at the moon for a few minutes . |
| 14 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |
| 15 | I like bed , I like the female body , I like the way even the shallowest of women become beautiful when their clothes are off and they think they 're taking a profound and wicked step . |
| 16 | and you send it off and they send you a booklet where you pick a holiday and this go-kart worth a thousand pound on the so they 're having to do that you see . |
| 17 | ‘ They have got the banks peeling off and they do n't know how it 's going to operate … |
| 18 | And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ? |
| 19 | There are some good teachers , but for most it is a case of ‘ We piss them off and they piss us off . ’ |
| 20 | take that off and what have you got , it leaves you eighty as your braking distance |
| 21 | Absolutely , and it does because it a it what Dave says it 's an emotional whole and you start off and you come back to where you started . |
| 22 | And I 've seen him standing ope in front of the open fire with his back to the fire going like that and you can see the heat shimmer stuff coming off and you know it 's the L P G. |
| 23 | Well the light has got to come off and you 've got to drop a perpendicular so that you know , cut the paper straight , it helps if you put it up straight instead of wonky . |
| 24 | Look you start off and you 've got your trunk okay ? |
| 25 | If something wants pruning you just show them : you chop this off and you chop that off and you get on with it . |
| 26 | It 's not an exact ten minutes , it 's not an exact six hundred seconds , but what it is , is round about that period of time , after about ten minutes , what you do is you switch off and you go and do something else . |
| 27 | If something wants pruning you just show them : you chop this off and you chop that off and you get on with it . |
| 28 | It does put you off and you start thinking , Oh there 's no point trying it cos I know I 'm going to be last . |
| 29 | right then , I 'll fuck off and you see how you like it , eh ? |
| 30 | It does this extremely efficiently , but if you want to use the tool for conventional drilling and screwdriving , the hammer action must be switched off and you need an SDS adaptor ( Part No A13123 ) which will screw into a ½in chuck with a ½in female thread fitting ( part No . |