Example sentences of "[vb infin] her off " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't be enough to find a poison that would finish her off . |
| 2 | Widow Lilian Boyes , 70 , had earlier pleaded with doctors to ‘ finish her off , ’ Winchester Crown Court heard . |
| 3 | ‘ There really is no need , madame , ’ Jenna said quickly , thinking that another day here would just about finish her off . |
| 4 | She did n't dare look down at Adam 's usual table — seeing him might just finish her off completely . |
| 5 | Do you wan na finish her off , bring a |
| 6 | He seemed to think he could carry her off like this , and get away with it . |
| 7 | But if she let fitzAlan carry her off and marry her she would be completely powerless against a man who despised her . |
| 8 | What was stranger still was that she seemed stressed and worried , and kept raising her wings into the wind and bending forward at it and then letting it lift her off her stand to the top of her cage where she stuck out her talons , hovered for a moment and then flopped inelegantly down again to the bare branch . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe you could keep her off our hands , Stevens . |
| 10 | But , you know , you do n't wan na keep her off . |
| 11 | Old law-givers said that the father of a menstruating girl should marry her off immediately . |
| 12 | If Nine Inch Nails ' dreadful racket does n't scare her off , nothing will . |
| 13 | ‘ If I put a foot wrong now , I 'll scare her off . ’ |
| 14 | She had planned to walk home , but accepted , on the front steps , an offer of a lift from Teddy Lazenby and his wife Delia , who lived in Campden Square and could easily drop her off . |
| 15 | The smallest thing can set her off , and the customs in the Middle and Far East did not help . |
| 16 | The slightest thing would set her off , usually when she was feeling insecure and wanted attention . |
| 17 | That 'll take her off my hands . ’ |
| 18 | We shall cut her off . ’ |
| 19 | The young Beatrice Webb was convinced of the importance of family life for women and during the 1880s desperately desired an intimate relationship with the leading politician , Joseph Chamberlain , yet she knew that to marry him would cut her off for ever from the purposeful life of work that she also wanted . |
| 20 | She is a Christian which by silly standards should cut her off from the people in our predominantly Buddhist country … |
| 21 | And she could not believe that he would marry Honoria Greville , might even throw her off if he knew what she had done , which was to lose him his heiress . |
| 22 | How ironic that she felt so alive in Piers 's company , the one man who could shrug her off as carelessly as he would shrug off a few flecks of sand from his T-shirt . |
| 23 | His inability to rid himself of the woman is a recurrent theme , even though a psychoanalytic institute in the US ( where for some reason another analyst has written a book which presents the patient as a great therapeutic success ) actually sent him money regularly so that he could pay her off when she got too demanding . |
| 24 | So Craig would pay her off , would he , leave her house without any word of his departure ? |
| 25 | He said and I 'd soon tell her off . |
| 26 | I 'll hold her off as long as I can . |
| 27 | The tide was certainly making now , and if I kept to midstream as near as I could judge it , I should be safe enough — if I put Joanna on the mud , the making tide would soon get her off . |
| 28 | That has yet to be tested in public , but the evening certainly did not put her off — — she has been an ardent fan of the Welsh National Opera ever since . |
| 29 | But nothing , absolutely nothing , could put her off . |
| 30 | Afterwards , the following cycle would take place : Louise would assume an early rendezvous ; Gustave would put her off ; Louise would plead , grow angry , threaten ; Gustave would reluctantly give in and agree to another meeting . |