Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 2 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 4 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 5 | If you 're a bit large on the hips , top them off with a loose T-shirt . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Adam was so extreme ; they really would cart him off to a padded cell one of these days . |
| 9 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 10 | The miniature St Christopher on it had a brief treat before Sorrel cooled him off in no uncertain terms . |
| 11 | Fill in the coupon on this page and send it off with the appropriate cheque |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Bruce 's far lighter cavalry cut them off in a flanking movement . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She would have written me off as a time-wasting nut . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office . |
| 20 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't start that nonsense again or they 'll carry you off to the funny farm , ’ Otley said wearily . |
| 22 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 23 | Manville knew then that Hayman had been right in writing him off as a washed-up veteran . |
| 24 | He had written her off as a useless , lying bimbo . |
| 25 | But Scotland also suffered from internal religious differences , and from the effects of the Navigation Acts after 1660 that cut her off from a good deal of overseas trade . |
| 26 | His head bent towards her and once again Jenna lifted her hands to ward him off in a panic-stricken way , but her fingers felt useless . |
| 27 | I 'm terribly lazy and always put it off until the last minute . ’ |
| 28 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 29 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 30 | Nowhere near enough , they 're trying to get us to sell it off by the back door and we will resist that . |