Example sentences of "[noun] off [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we took a piece off and had it analysed , we have a little laboratory which we use to analyse things like that , and it turned out to be what we expected , the most common colour of medieval furniture was red . |
| 2 | you want to cut a piece off and let me see what it 's like |
| 3 | Oh you 've got to take your ring off and measure it round the circle . |
| 4 | If you go out and switch her light off and leave her in the room . |
| 5 | ‘ We can take the old sole off and replace it without changing the shape of the shoe or damaging the structure . |
| 6 | Then The Sugargliders — their hair still glossy from the blood of Metallica , who tried to stop them coming in — stride across the shattered bar-room floor and pull their own heads off and ram them down The Rosaries ' throats . |
| 7 | The vet also explained Luke had to get some weight off and instructed me to change his diet of cooked chicken and switch to a dried food called Eukanuba . |
| 8 | If you have no secretary to fend off telephone calls turn the telephone off or take it off the hook while you are conducting the interview . |
| 9 | Torrential rain turned the main street through Peterchurch into a fast flowing river — cutting the village off and catching it 's residents by surprise . |
| 10 | He waved Rostov to an empty place at his side , and one of the aides drew Yuan and Alexei off and seated them among younger men . |
| 11 | The fact that you can turn the engine off and use it as a glider must extend the appeal of this unusual creature which hardly fits the general public 's notion of a microlight . |
| 12 | ‘ And he tied the horse up ; took the shoes off and put them back on again . |
| 13 | Like it really , that film really pisses me off right , when he 's beating her up and he rips her knickers off and fucks her up the arse and Nick 's going that 's how to treat a wo it 's disgusting fucking a woman up her arse , and ripping off the woman 's knickers and rip putting it up sitting watching it thinking |
| 14 | On Sundays , she did her hair with far more care than usual , arranging it in smooth red coils and loops , and , with her uncustomary neatness and her grand necklace and her look of youth , she acquired a startling , hare-like , fleeting beauty , pared to the bone ; a weird beauty that lasted until bedtime , when she took the necklace off and put it away again . |
| 15 | Memory is a bit of a misnomer erm , because if you switch the computer off and switch it back on again , the file wo n't be there any more , because it has n't remembered it . |
| 16 | So he 'd take the fleece off and cut it up |
| 17 | So we 're not actually changing your water tablets as such , we 're just knocking a little bit off and leaving you just on the Frusamide bit of your water tablet , okay ? |
| 18 | Just cut a bit off and get it whiskers and it 's off ? |
| 19 | She pulled her jumper off and handed it to him , then watched as he spread it out and laid the dead animal on it . |
| 20 | Which is more than you ever were with me — until , of course , that last day at the office when you took the lid off and let it all boil over — all the things that had been bugging you . ’ |
| 21 | One day soon I will rip its beak off and glue it onto the end of my own fine aquiline conk , and , secure in my new disguise , I 'll be down to the Inland Revenue Enforcement ( B ) in Barrington Road and scrabbling frantically at my tax inspector 's trousers ( I may be wrong , but I picture them as that specially rich shade of brown polyester-and-worsted that only Dunn & Co can achieve ) before you can say , ‘ Well , what 's got into you , dearie ? ’ |
| 22 | This closes the opponent off and presents you with a good opportunity to continue the block into the opponent 's face . |
| 23 | That invariably meant sectioning the warren off and working it a piece at a time . |
| 24 | ‘ So it 's better to turn the water off while using it . ’ |
| 25 | I said I 'm going to have to clear that and delete a bit of stuff off and load it with and load WordPerfect again . |
| 26 | He urged me to take a day off and visit him . |
| 27 | And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked . |
| 28 | I 've never seen anything like it before , ’ and she was looking from one to the other , wondering which one it was meant to fit , when Miss Rene startled her by saying , ‘ Well , get your coat and things off and try it on . ’ |
| 29 | Bet if I took his jacket off and put it in that washer it 'd of fallen to bits cos it was that mucky . |
| 30 | She took her jacket off and wrapped it up , folding it awkwardly over one arm . |