Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got told off by the ref — I was a bit wild then — and Ian began moaning as though he was crying . |
| 2 | If it is , it none the less dates back explicitly to 1961 when he played Littlechap , the Everyman figure who makes it big , in Stop The World — I Want To Get Off at the Queen 's . |
| 3 | Also , I have found Mr Hauser has a Lear jet which flies him across the world plus a Sikorsky helicopter which I saw taking off from the grounds of Livingstone Manor . |
| 4 | I 've thought about it but erm it 's another one of those things I , I guess I keep putting off to the er a little bit later . |
| 5 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 6 | Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident . |
| 7 | I 've planned me route , I 'm going down the M six , I need to come off at the spaghetti junction whatever it is , and I 'm going to check me clock and I 'm going allow plenty of time to get there . |
| 8 | ‘ In the meantime , as I told you , I have an errand to do , then I plan to stop off in the village and have a bite to eat . |
| 9 | ‘ Contacts at professional and academic level , seminars , familiarisation with techniques , will build up a rapport which tends to pay off in the long run , ’ he said . |
| 10 | At 0748hrs Zeros and Val dive-bombers which had taken off from the Soryu attacked . |
| 11 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 12 | If you want to head off into the higher mountains , cross-country skiing is n't the best sport for children : the effort , though not strenuous , is constant , and children under ten could tire if asked to ski for longer than a half-day . |
| 13 | ‘ You will wake Widow MacIntosh — ‘ She is not here , you fool — she has gone off with the mob . ’ |
| 14 | Are you going to finish off in the kid 's room ? |
| 15 | Madge was attended by six little Burmese bridesmaids , who as soon as she arrived started off up the long aisle , and she followed with the kind friend at whose house she had spent the previous two nights and who ‘ gave her away ’ . |
| 16 | Ca n't get enough of them , ’ interrupted Dexter with a broad smile , anxious to push the superintendent off her soapbox before she started to sound off about the worthlessness of most television . |
| 17 | It seemed he was deliberately galloping very close past her to upset her chestnut mare , who kept taking off into the pampas . |
| 18 | At the first sign of the emotional see-saw that life so often presents , you go scurrying off for the goodies that give you comfort . |
| 19 | But before you go rushing off to the river to catch a netful of chub , bear in mind that I have said only that chub are easy to catch compared to most other species . |
| 20 | The ferry was not big , but she dwarfed the harbour — she had to stand off from the jetty and land us by boat — and indeed the village . |
| 21 | This was their eighth win from 10 games and they achieved the result without the likes of Mick Harford , Paul Elliott and Robert Fleck , who had gone off by the time Newton struck . |
| 22 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 23 | Two hundred years ago if you wanted to show off to the neighbours you built a tower on a hill which they could n't help but see for miles around . |
| 24 | For those , you have to traipse off to the main offices . |
| 25 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 26 | ‘ But we did stop off on the way for a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 27 | There was little noise from outside the windows and we appeared cut off from the city and from civilian life in general ; I lay in bed and pulled the sheets up over my nose . |
| 28 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 29 | I 'm saying everything 's turned off at the moment , alright ? |
| 30 | They also do n't like wind rock so in a , an exposed position young plants do really need more staking than you 'd probably give a bush because they tend to rot off at the roots if they grow around a lot . |