Example sentences of "they off " in BNC.

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1 I try to get them off him but am not always successful .
2 As one constable stated , the ‘ Action Men ’ who are fitness conscious and orientated towards crime-fighting only adopt this mode ‘ to get them off doing work ’ .
3 Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook .
4 She takes them off me .
5 Alan Knott was one of them off Wayne Daniel 's bowling .
6 The second wicket , like the first , produced 109 runs and he made 85 of them off 77 balls .
7 They are taken and inserted ( ‘ struck ’ ) in the same way as softwood cuttings , although many gardeners remove whole sideshoots , pulling them off the main stem with a short portion of bard ( a ‘ heel ’ ) to aid rooting ; neatly trim any ragged edges on the heel , and pinch out the tips of naturally bushy subjects .
8 But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow .
9 Sitting in the lotus position they jumped into the air using their thighs to propel them off the ground .
10 They were quickly spotted by a police patrol who ushered them off the motorway and down the A41 slip road .
11 Why not list your own holiday requirements and then tick them off one by one as you discover for yourself what Ten Bel has to offer .
12 Henry Higgs noticed these stones too and how they ‘ used to take them off the windowsill on the way back one by one ’ .
13 ‘ You can take them off the instant you do n't need them for reading . ’
14 The butcher chases them off the rock with kicks and abusive shouts , as though punishing them for bad behaviour .
15 ‘ It gets them off the hook , ’ explains one psychotherapist .
16 The only exotic mysterious dance this glen will witness is one where walkers run wildly about in circles waving their arms in alarm , screaming , ‘ Get them off me ! ’
17 ‘ I know that if someone is sent up to Leeds to interview them , the band will meet them off the train at the right time .
18 ‘ Oh you have n't taken them off the tree ? ’
19 Home striker Paul Crimmen let them off the hook on a number of occasions and Horsham had two goals disallowed .
20 Remember that bream , in order to grow big , live in waters rich in natural food , and pre-baiting is necessary to wean them off it enough to accept your offerings .
21 He had crossed them off one by one until there was no one left but Una O'Malley .
22 He not only met them off trains , got taxis , and frequently turned up at theatres to see how they were getting on , but would also dip into one of his baskets and present each Girl with a bar of chocolate .
23 I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him .
24 Without a pause Danny reeled them off ‘ Osgood , Woodcock and Ian Storey-Moore . ’
25 ‘ You should have let me nick them off him . ’
26 The same American report into male sexuality that revealed which stimuli men found most ‘ exciting ’ also reported that the following turned them off the most :
27 Every time he came home he had to scoop them off the surface .
28 On many spring driven reverbs , when you switch them off the reverb signal dies immediately .
29 He stripped them off the mattress and carried Willie down to the living room .
30 More recently Hairy Hands has been reported as wresting steering wheels from drivers ' hands and forcing them off the road , often causing appalling accidents .
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