Example sentences of "[vb infin] him off " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Adam was so extreme ; they really would cart him off to a padded cell one of these days . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If it had been anyone other than Connie … but he could hardly choke him off . |
| 5 | The industrious biographer of Bernard Shaw has just completed the fourth volume , but it appears as if bricks , not books , will finish him off . |
| 6 | Well , that should finish him off in no time . |
| 7 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Might as well go back and finish him off , ’ says Iain . |
| 9 | " But I think we have to go forward and finish him off . " |
| 10 | ‘ Did you tip him off about Bernard ? ’ |
| 11 | Fiona would never jock him off , in racing 's descriptive phrase . |
| 12 | She would send him off to some lecturing engagement with butter and other rations to give his hostess , and when he came back the rations would be found as a soggy mess in his pocket . |
| 13 | He would come home ( to her home ) after school for his tea ‘ but I would send him off to Mrs Smith 's . |
| 14 | Whether we should send him off with a shove in his rear and a pair of boxed ears does not matter . |
| 15 | He do n't want to come down to me cos I shall send him off ! |
| 16 | If he caught him up here again he 'd see him off , scare him to death . |
| 17 | ‘ I was aware of the presence of a stranger and asked the stage manager to ‘ see him off . |
| 18 | Soon it was time for him to return and it was arranged that Anne and Sarah who were both free would see him off at the station . |
| 19 | I mean if anybody else just got up on the stage like he does and kicks his leg , kick like their leg like er like that they 'd boo him off ! |
| 20 | A glimpse of ankle might set him off . |
| 21 | ‘ I would think just the sound of David Markham 's name would set him off . ’ |
| 22 | This baby has gone into one of his frenetic football sessions and if I move it 'll set him off again ! ’ |
| 23 | marvellous Missus will wash him off and put him to bed . |
| 24 | Harry had Mossop drop him off at Brockenhurst station , where he commenced the journey back to Swindon , happy to find himself alone among anonymous travellers , able to concentrate at last on all the implications of what he had learned . |
| 25 | I did n't drop him off till about twenty past , twenty five past ten . |
| 26 | Well you can drop him off and pick him up . |
| 27 | And she 'd take him off to the second-hand bookstall which specialized in the politics of the left , or to attend a useful meeting , and stand around with banners . |
| 28 | machine until Monday and then though we 'll take him off , of course being on it for a long period |
| 29 | The blood always belonged to God , for ‘ I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls … whosoever eateth any manner of blood , I will set my face against that soul … and will cut him off from among his people ’ ( Lev . |
| 30 | But he knew she 'd cut him off . |