Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ran flat out for half a mile before we could throw them off . ’ |
| 2 | And dad could knock me off on the way to get the papers . |
| 3 | Can trigger them off . |
| 4 | People always need clothes do n't they and they 'll always buy them off you if you 're selling them at half price … |
| 5 | I said ooh I said let me buy them off you ? |
| 6 | Cos I mean , yo you can easily chop them off and put summat else smaller on ca n't you with lamps on ? |
| 7 | Then you can just chop them off as they become constants . |
| 8 | As we all stood to attention in the darkened cinema , singing the anthem , we Would count them off : ‘ God save our — one — gracious Queen — two — Long live our — three — noble Queen — four . ’ |
| 9 | She had names for them all , and would count them off sometimes like a rosary . |
| 10 | they 're very brave Can dry them off on that |
| 11 | The shower will stop automatically and warm air blowers will dry you off . |
| 12 | Disobey me in this and I shall pack you off to Framlingham and send Joan elsewhere — more quickly than you could say wedding-bells ! ’ |
| 13 | If you are not , and I have to stress this very carefully then they will call the nearest available garage and the garage will come there very quickly and they will tow you off into the nearest exit and there they will leave you and that can cost you probably , in excess of ninety pounds . |
| 14 | Most people had come to understand the danger posed by Hitler 's Germany ; but they decided to delude themselves into believing that giving him Austria and Czechoslovakia would buy him off . |
| 15 | Adam was so extreme ; they really would cart him off to a padded cell one of these days . |
| 16 | It 'll mean seeing so much less of him , and God knows I seem to see little enough already , but being an only boy I 've felt I must pack him off to boarding-school to get some men in his life and break the apron-strings . |
| 17 | COMMANDO ROCK- If you have a 12 ’ of this hip hop classic , write to me and I 'll buy it off you- Peace ! |
| 18 | Tell you what if they 've got a hydraulic jack in there , several people have to buy it off him , the boys will buy it off |
| 19 | Ca n't I buy it off you ? |
| 20 | And is that because you 'd sawd it off or ? |
| 21 | Yes , okay and we 're still coming round yet again and the last one cos she 's got quite a large fist , I 'll take it over the top , round the back and this one now I can tie , tie it off , sorry tie it off on the back of her hand now , I do n't want to tie it off on the front cos in a minute I want to put this into a sling not too tight ? |
| 22 | Often he would shave it off , but the next day he would have a beard just the same . |
| 23 | To demonstrate his empathy with the women whom he spends his life treating , he adds that : ‘ If my beard had a 6 per cent chance of turning malignant I would shave it off . ’ |
| 24 | He said it was good enough for other companies and that he would n't shave it off . |
| 25 | ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed . |
| 26 | You could not snap them off , as perhaps Rachaela 's own mother had tried to do . |
| 27 | Do n't send me off . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not kidding you , we had 15 chances but could n't finish them off . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'll finish them off in a fortnight , ’ he said , as he celebrated 31st birthday . |
| 30 | If we play as well as that I do n't see why we ca n't finish them off . |