Example sentences of "off [prep] those " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had a few guilty twinges about ticking you off about those steps . |
| 2 | But centuries-old practices are difficult to change , and my protests were written off as those of an ignorant missionary , with no respect for traditional customs . |
| 3 | Ah , yeah , yeah , so , you take that off , you take the six off for those boxes that 's a hundred , take fifteen off for the t-shirts , you 're talking eighty five pounds then . |
| 4 | ‘ What do you think Father and Mother would say if they knew you were even thinking of going off with those kids — and at this time of night ! |
| 5 | As well as standard black , blue or red leads , they do fluorescent orange and mint green ( no-one 's going to walk off with those by accident ) , a beautiful translucent pink lead with the copper shielding visible underneath and , funkiest of all , red/green and black/red cotton-wound cables , looking rather like climbing rope or the lead on your Gran 's old toaster . |
| 6 | We skirted the now-notorious refreshment hut , which was marked off with those fluorescent orange ribbons that usually signal a particularly nasty accident , and which was now guarded by two policemen . |
| 7 | Impatiently , she said , ‘ When you went off with those papers , there was something you left behind . |
| 8 | Along Downing Street ( which was not railed off in those days ) and on the thresholds of other public buildings , pickets from the four main Civil Service trade unions were noisily demonstrating their disdain for the authority of a Labour government that was already on the skids . |
| 9 | The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days . |
| 10 | ‘ Everything was on and off in those days . |
| 11 | After all , South Africa was a long way off in those days and home leave must have been a great rarity . ’ |
| 12 | Because the shuttle will be out of contact with a TDRS for about half its 90-minute orbit of the Earth , scientists on board will be cut off from those on the ground who designed the experiments . |
| 13 | The face is continually seen hiding behind dark glasses , underwater goggles , and through a goldfish bowl , cutting himself off from those around him . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it is necessary to start somewhere and it might be useful to take off from those analyses . |
| 15 | He immediately cuts himself off from those ambitious city men who try ‘ to win the palm , the oak , or bays , ’ emblematic of the rewards given for artistic , political and military achievement . |
| 16 | The fact that professionals share the prevailing social attitudes is underlined by Alison Norman : ‘ The poor image of old age inevitably rubs off on those who are working in this field . |
| 17 | I take my hat off to those front row men . |
| 18 | ‘ I would hope at the very least the council will review it after three months and consult the disabled , town centre traders and shopkeepers , otherwise we will end up with ghost streets closed off to those least able to move about town . ’ |
| 19 | Sadako Ogata , the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) , had announced earlier that all operations were off except those in central Bosnia . |
| 20 | His criticism of the prodigality of government in October 1675 was very ill-received at court , and when a pension to his son failed to secure his support , the king wrote him off among those people ‘ who will never be obliged ’ . |
| 21 | And we walked down clubbing right and left , and we cleared the streets and those that fell to the floor were carried off by those who had hidden behind when we went past . |
| 22 | I wonder if Daedalus , or anyone else for that matter , has thought about the annoying glare given off by those ubiquitous orange sodium street lamps . |