Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I 'll get them to send it off to Linda |
| 2 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 3 | They bore him off to their favourite cafe . |
| 4 | Get it done cos they send you off at ten . |
| 5 | They let me off at four in the morning and I had to be in court by nine . |
| 6 | I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office . |
| 7 | They let us off after our three Santa Clausesses mobbed them and asked to play with the red furry pandas they had clipped to the aerials of their radios , on condition we played ‘ Saints ’ until out of sight . |
| 8 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 9 | ( Catatonics typically do not speak or appear to listen or take necessary initiatives ; they cut themselves off from human contact . ) |
| 10 | They cut him off without a penny . ’ |
| 11 | They cut him off during televised debates . |
| 12 | They ripped it off in the name of God . |
| 13 | My , my sister- in-law , she w had to go in just before Christmas , had to rather suddenly she 's was diagnosed in the summer as having diverticulitis and they planned a sort of diet out to keep her really well and she was in terrible pain and they rushed her off for a scan and er she goes privately cos Vernon , I think actually his is BUPA that he 's in , he joined when it first came out and she wrote to me and she said oh I 'm , I just feel so lonely , there 's nobody to talk to , I 've got nobody to see or anything and she felt a bit cos she was n't really that ill |
| 14 | If they pack you off to Brighton , they want you to put a bullet in him . |
| 15 | ‘ Not the second time , not in March when they knocked it off at Stamford . |
| 16 | In fact , they whisked me off to the Nanking Workers ' Hospital , where I stayed in ‘ solitary confinement ’ until this afternoon . |
| 17 | They hit it off at once . |
| 18 | People want to spend their day forgetting about hard times — even if they pay it off in instalments over the next ten years . |
| 19 | And he came back to er and started again and er he 'd just er er the big manufacturer engineering er people made us lace machines then and they started him off with three , and he 'd paid off one and part of the other when he died . |
| 20 | They started me off on that much [ indicates with his thumb and forefinger approximately ½ inch apart ] . |
| 21 | Honest to God , that 's how much they started me off on . |
| 22 | Then , when the family heard of it , they packed him off to Ireland , arranged fur the marriage to be annulled , and he married the Connor girl . ’ |
| 23 | And er they took themselves off to Coventry and to and to Luton , to the motor trades . |
| 24 | It 's that kind of blind faith that forced Glenn Hoddle and his team into hiding this week … they took themselves off to Bournemouth for three days to prepare to psyche themselves up in secret |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | So they took it off of him . |
| 27 | They saw her off into the splashed black and rainy yellow night . |
| 28 | Six weeks ago they sent me off to Paisley College in Scotland to make a radio report on a new course at its Alcohol Studies Centre : the intoxication workshop . |
| 29 | But no I think er they thought I could speak English better than some of them themselves so they sent me off to English universities or wherever to put across our problems . |
| 30 | Sometimes , if they did n't know the one I was after , they sent me off in search of one or two they had of their own . |