Example sentences of "off that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ What shall I do to keep my mind off that thought while the day passes ? ’
2 For heaven 's sake get your weight off that ankle and rest it . ’
3 can take off that weekend .
4 Get off that phone !
5 Too many bad ones , I 'm just glad to see you get off that top .
6 But I mean I was thinking like as well cos like we did taxes like a few weeks ago did n't we , and the tax that the government get off that race , I mean seventy five million on the whole race ,
7 But then again , how is the individual management to know if it happens to be one of those which ought to acknowledge a responsibility to maintain or lower prices , or whether it is one of the lucky ones which can be let off that responsibility ?
8 So to stop it being a through route , because it 's not part it 's not a necessary route for private cars to go down , and it is , of course , extremely important because the entrance to the bus station is off that route .
9 Oh we 've got to get off that mum .
10 There 's always a chill wind blowing off that river . ’
11 The easiest thing in the world to take off that question
12 That 's what I mean about when he sort of ran off that night I thought , in one way I was pissed off with him but in one way I thought well at least he can you know ?
13 In an area 10° wide either side of the bearing on the OBS , the needle will indicate displacement off that bearing .
14 Two lads , went up to them and says get off that bike or we 'll pull you off !
15 I heard Ryan coming on a good wee bit behind him , but this , up that path like , I says to if that wee fella fell off that bike he 's killed .
16 Urgh , all the blood off that meat is making me feel sick !
17 But also I think he rips off that culture .
18 I might add that Filmer 's notion of dominion as originally granted to Adam included both ownership of property and authority over men and here Filmer was trading on erm erm the feudal tradition of erm property erm erm erm dominion erm entails that if you have property rights in a certain tract of territory you also have political authority over the people inhabiting that or that territory you know , think of a straightforward standard lord of the manor and his service you know , he has property rights in the territory , he also has authority over erm the individuals who live off that territory .
19 So when , if , if you were to come to sell your residence , they would knock off that proportion of the total er er which could in fact give rise to a small capital gain depending on how the er how you sold , because you might sell it at a loss .
20 It means that when they have a tip off that devil worshippers are slaughtering animals , they have to wait until the animal is ill treated before they can act .
21 Labour did n't work hard enough at prising off that glove ; at challenging Thatcher 's theology of individual self-sufficiency ; instead it rejected the radical compassion of international socialism for the gloss and shine of Thatcher-style politics .
22 And all for £2,325 , though if you replace the luxury of a VL-bus super-fast VGA card plus SuperVGA colour display ( that came with the review model ) with a more suitable mono VGA system , you 'd knock around £250 off that price .
23 I know I when I make chutney I use look you 'll smash all the enamel off that casserole and it 's a pretty one , I do n't want it , why do n't you have a run around outside ?
24 ‘ Do n't say anything , but I saw Bob Lamb going along the beck , so I sent her off that way , too .
25 You go round that corner not off that way towards the wards just go from the desk right round the corner and follow it right the way down as far as you can go .
26 Du n no some go off that way
27 Mm you split it down the middle again so that will go off that way and then that branch go that way see ?
28 Oh I used to love sally loaves and you cut them off that way
29 A vague command where the child does not understand the meaning behind the statement , e.g. ‘ Be careful ’ instead of ‘ Please come down off that wall ’ .
30 Erm and er it was er it was a ramp basically , er up here , so that one could run straight off that ramp , onto this flat truck .
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