Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 2 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 3 | And he was still worrying about how to pass himself off as the long-dead Bard when police nicked him dithering outside a bank . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 6 | There were even police standing in the wings ready to cart everybody off to the nearest station should the forbidden line be recited . |
| 7 | Fill in the coupon on this page and send it off with the appropriate cheque |
| 8 | To apply for supplementary pension get leaflet SB 1 from the post office , fill in your name and address , sign it and send it off in the pre-paid envelope . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Another thing that cut me off from the other kids was going to the grammar school — and having to wear a bright green blazer every day . |
| 11 | Worst of all , some tiles are inaccessible without forming a bridge with others — think on your toes and pair them off in the right order , or it 's back to the beginning . |
| 12 | I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office . |
| 13 | Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ? |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't start that nonsense again or they 'll carry you off to the funny farm , ’ Otley said wearily . |
| 15 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 16 | I 'm terribly lazy and always put it off until the last minute . ’ |
| 17 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 18 | Nowhere near enough , they 're trying to get us to sell it off by the back door and we will resist that . |
| 19 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 20 | The situation will be made more dangerous if the EC cuts itself off from the new North American Free Trade Area . |
| 21 | Hauser thought the only way to keep his top men on their toes was to play one off against the other : to hint now and again someone else was after ; their job . |
| 22 | Spotting the two journalists huddled together in conspiratorial conversation a few yards away , he hauled her off in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | There is nothing which cuts him off from the early sociologists in his basic assumptions about the importance of instincts and their interaction with men 's cultures . |
| 24 | I mean she used to toss , toss me off on the old and there 's , there 's and she used to sit on there used , used to sit on there she used to toss me off and I got this fucking as she 's tossing me off she did this love bite . |
| 25 | So even University was n't completely on one side , and again the City was erm there was this sort of Puritan element that did n't like the King 's religious policies , erm there was this general feeling against the University which tended to put them off to the other side , but there are undoubtedly loyal citizens erm citizens loyal to the King . |
| 26 | By joining the pro-Iraqi camp the PLO effectively cut itself off from the moderating influences ( and financial backing ) of the Gulf states and Egypt , and rendered highly unlikely any prospects for a resumption of US-Palestinian talks ( broken off in June — see pp. 37547 ; 37626-27 ) . |
| 27 | So , will you join me , or should I drop you off at the nearest station ? ’ |
| 28 | I 'll drop you off at the first station we come to . ’ |
| 29 | I 'll drop you off at the Jolly Farmer , then you can walk up the hill to get to the school . |
| 30 | Libya barricaded itself off from the outside world yesterday to ‘ mourn ’ the sixth anniversary of the American air raids on Tripoli and Benghazi , mounted in retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in the bombing of a Berlin night club in which two American soldiers died . |