Example sentences of "took [pers pn] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as we were married he took me off to Scotland , kept me there in virtual purdah , never let me out of his sight — his jealousy was manic . |
| 2 | He admitted : ‘ Lawrie McMenemy took me off at half- time in Spain after I 'd been booked . |
| 3 | No , I took them off of her , she gave them to me |
| 4 | You know when you flick them out and the teachers took them off of them . |
| 5 | We watched them get into a small carriage which took them off to their new residence . |
| 6 | The taxi took them off to a small restaurant , and with everywhere seeming crowded to full capacity Fabia guessed , when they were straight away shown to a table , that Ven must have had the forethought to book in advance . |
| 7 | Gaily selected the tools and took them off down the path to the back-gate . |
| 8 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 9 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
| 10 | His stumbling gait took him off in all directions except the one he wanted to go in . |
| 11 | Whilst there Norman had his twenty-first birthday , a fact he announced to a girl he met in a café and who took him off around Antwerp in celebration , on a journey of discovery that lasted two days . |
| 12 | He certainly liked Alix , and after the demo he took her off for lunch in a pub and then for a walk to his room in King 's , where he showed her his pots and his paintings . |
| 13 | she says er I 'm er guaranteed , she says oh no you 're not , she says Ruth 's told me last week to take you off guarantee , so they took her off like |
| 14 | I was wearing I had the , the stethoscope behind my neck and I took it off for something , I was holding it up to try and get a better |
| 15 | And I thought he 'd have given it in or something , well Mrs would have took it off of her children . |
| 16 | So they took it off of him . |
| 17 | In the end , my knitting was getting so chewed with all the knitting and unravelling that I took it off on waste yarn . |
| 18 | Our instructor took us off into the unknown for the next few hours , where we experienced ice , spring snow , powder and crud . |