Example sentences of "[vb past] they off " in BNC.
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| 1 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 2 | He led them off , setting a furious pace . |
| 3 | He successfully fought them off and they fled empty-handed . |
| 4 | Christopher says he surprised intruders in his flat and fought them off . |
| 5 | Spreading the oilskins out on the floor , she wiped them off , finishing the process with the towel Nathan had tossed on to the worktop . |
| 6 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 7 | erm he did n't think they had any bilingual signs and they did n't have they were n't using their Portakabins so they scrapped them all last year sold them off . |
| 8 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 9 | Where did I , oh I got them off of there did n't I ? |
| 10 | One by one he checked them off on his register , letting them stagger out into the corridor where the ghouls who liked disasters were already forming a pressing crowd . |
| 11 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 12 | He did n't like to think he was the kind of person who took things from strangers in pubs and then passed them off as presents to girls he was supposed to love . |
| 13 | He painted in various styles and passed them off as originals making a lot of money in the process . |
| 14 | No good on there , you told them off . |
| 15 | He took the first four out from the quay and dropped them off , after having had trouble starting the boat . |
| 16 | We carried troops dropped them off in Italy and picked up German prisoners of war and Yugoslav refugees to take to Port Said . |
| 17 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |
| 18 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 19 | Detectives also want to trace a driver who is thought to have given 3 men a lift and dropped them off in the Blisworth area on Sunday night . |
| 20 | Anyway Steve picked them up here and then dropped them off |
| 21 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 22 | No horses have been this way since you drove them off , ’ he said to Allen . |
| 23 | Early on the morning of the evacuation the families were preparing to embark when , in full sight of the military escort , gunmen surrounded the plane , forced the 11 men into a truck at gunpoint , and drove them off into the bush . |
| 24 | A substantial number of police came out with truncheons , went into the house and very forcibly removed eight women and drove them off to Risley . |
| 25 | They picked him up there but he shook them off . ’ |
| 26 | When the wiry little creatures obstructed her again , she hauled them off their feet . |
| 27 | The band trundled back to their hotel — the infamous Chelsea Hotel — to get their best party rags on and were halfway through their quick-change when the NY police burst into their room and hauled them off to the station . |
| 28 | But the white-and-holy showed them off like prized exhibits , for they liked to make the most of their scanty history . |
| 29 | The greatest unfairness , she thought , was that the women who could afford to buy the beautiful clothes simply did not do them justice , while she , who showed them off so well , had to save for weeks , even given her staff discount , for the most modestly priced item . |
| 30 | Nigel paid them off . |