Example sentences of "take [pron] [noun] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | well I said as mu if I did n't take my shoes off it |
| 2 | I ca n't take my eyes off this beautiful woman and as if sensing my gaze she hurries off to the adjoining room to get dressed . |
| 3 | The little kid wanted to be an anti-star , and I could n't take my eyes off him . |
| 4 | When her Mum undressed her to try it on I could n't take my eyes off the lovely white underclothes she wore . |
| 5 | That does n't stop Ca n't Get Used To Losing You , Ca n't Take My Eyes Off You and Home Loving Man being all-time classics . |
| 6 | The four-foot-long nozzle is heavy for me and hard to hold level , but I do not take my eyes off the spider . |
| 7 | I could n't take my eyes off her as she swivelled to rinse the mud from her legs , then flexed her arms , swept back her hair to shake it , and the motion rippled through her body . |
| 8 | I could n't take my eyes off him at the office and five o'clock was such a wrench — all those hours before I would see him again . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't take my eyes off people 's footwear . |
| 10 | It might take my mind off things . ’ |
| 11 | It will take my mind off things — with no limit on the autobahn . |
| 12 | They help take my mind off Benn but I 'll be focusing solely on him when I leave for London . ’ |
| 13 | Letters could take my mind off most things . |
| 14 | ( Good ; it 'll take my mind off the other itch . ) |
| 15 | Maybe my mother thought it would take my mind off the convent , for she agreed . |
| 16 | You 've certainly got me interested , and the shipping accounts may take my mind off being cross with you . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , your Lucy has got you winding her chain , darling , and she just wo n't take her feet off the ground and let go — am I right ? ’ |
| 18 | Alison waved from the window of the departing taxi and Celia waved back , a sudden feeling of depression taking hold of her to such an extent that she abandoned her idea of looking for a pram and set off , rather aimlessly , in the direction of Leicester Square in the faint hope that perhaps a cinema might take her mind off things . |
| 19 | She wished she 'd brought something to do that would take her mind off her anxiety if only for a moment . |
| 20 | Cooking lunch for a guest might at least take her mind off the intractable problem of Samantha for a while . |
| 21 | From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride . |
| 22 | It would n't settle the shaky future of a family business painstakingly built up with love and commitment , it would n't alter the shock of Mortimer 's twisted values … but it would definitely take her mind off it all for a while . |
| 23 | With any luck , it would take her mind off Matthew Blake . |
| 24 | She walked towards her office , plenty to do there which might take her mind off these worries by substituting others . |
| 25 | She did n't take her eyes off him for a moment . |
| 26 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 27 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 28 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 29 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 30 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |