Example sentences of "[pers pn] off at " in BNC.
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1 | And he says , sells his off at a quarter of a million , per cube . |
2 | In Tanzania the Asians suffered attrition in stages as the combined effects of the Arusha Declaration and the nationalization of both private houses and wholesale trade ‘ cut them off at the knees ’ as Nyerere expressed it . |
3 | Emily got Stanley to drop them off at Vic 's house ; or rather his father 's house , since strictly speaking Vic 's address was the shed . |
4 | Disturbed , Isa proposed Wilson and Pilade should come with her up to Bellosguardo for the afternoon and , since no protest was made , she hustled the two of them into her waiting carriage and whisked them off at once , leaving Maria with instructions to be there upon their return . |
5 | The amazing ‘ Street of Much Music ’ , with it 's abundance of colourful bars and restaurants is only 10–15 metres away , as is the beach where you can take advantage of your free beach mat and cultivate those tans ready to show them off at some of Kos town 's brilliant night-clubs , also 15 minutes away . |
6 | John Delaney knew now that all along it had been hunting them , that it was still hunting them , waiting for the right moment to pick them off at will , one at a time . |
7 | They work under the grim threat that armed and dangerous rebels could pick them off at any time . |
8 | ‘ We have come here and beaten the best form team in the country and we could have killed them off at half-time with a three or four-goal lead . |
9 | BRIAN Gayle returns to action against his old club Wimbledon tonight warning : ‘ Write them off at your peril . ’ |
10 | Meanwhile former Wimbledon star Brian Gayle returns to action against his old club tonight warning : ‘ Write them off at your peril . ’ |
11 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
12 | Oracle Corp says it is already working on VMS and OSF/1 ports of its relational database management system technology for DEC 's Alpha RISC and says it 'll be showing them off at DECWorld in Boston at the end of this month . |
13 | Cut them off at the base with a razor blade or craft knife . |
14 | People take malicious pleasure in cutting in on them and burning them off at traffic lights . |
15 | We saw them off at the airfield , we being Sogono and myself . |
16 | ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed . |
17 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |
18 | For no sooner had the taxi dropped them off at their hotel , and Ven had escorted her inside , than , ‘ If you 'll excuse me , Fabia , I have someone to see , ’ he stated evenly — and suddenly she was feeling dreadful on a couple more counts . |
19 | We waved them off at about 8.45am the following morning , after having a thoroughly enjoyable weekend . |
20 | I know , but the on the kitchen window sill , I take them off at night . |
21 | that 's why your clothes are always fishy when you take them off at night then ? |
22 | drop them off at our house , I said , and fetch them back like . |
23 | I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office . |
24 | If it turns them off at school it will probably turn them off at university . |
25 | If it turns them off at school it will probably turn them off at university . |
26 | Dana saw me off at the station . |
27 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
28 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
29 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
30 | They let me off at four in the morning and I had to be in court by nine . |