Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] off on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And dad could knock me off on the way to get the papers . |
| 2 | ‘ At the house — he dropped me off on the way . |
| 3 | The Land Rover dropped me off on the edge of the town , surprisingly on a tarmac road , and I arranged to meet the lads nine miles further on . |
| 4 | It set off packed from top to bottom with Sheffield area anglers , fishing rods and maggots and dropped you off on the canal at Clayworth where George lived until he died about ten years ago . |
| 5 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 6 | work on the basis of er , we fill up just before we drop you off on the way back |
| 7 | ‘ You can drop us off on the corner if you like , Bill . ’ |
| 8 | His wife packed a box with various goodies for Leonora to take to Penry , then walked with them to the jetty , and waved them off on the Sea-Fret , a sturdy fishing-boat a lot newer than Penry 's . |
| 9 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 10 | ‘ Good luck , ’ said Sophia , seeing her off on the doorstep . |
| 11 | Despite his strange dealings in the transfer market up to now , I 'm still one of the pro-Wilko group , and I 'm not going to start slagging him off on the basis of rumours about what he might conceivably do . |
| 12 | He saw me off on the bus . |
| 13 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 14 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |
| 15 | The grocer , a hard-faced ex-soldier whose right hand lacked a thumb ( Melanie wondered , had he lopped it off on the bacon-slicer ? |
| 16 | As the sub-topics mount up , mark them off on the pattern diagram ( see figure 2 in chapter 4 ) . |
| 17 | I used to rub it off on the way to school . |
| 18 | Responsible for giving trainer Grant Eden a broken heel after throwing him off on the gallops , Artistic Reef made up for it with a game neck victory over favourite Palacegate Episode . |
| 19 | She can start us off on the aerobics lesson . |
| 20 | The others are still working it off on the tennis court . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , okay and we 're still coming round yet again and the last one cos she 's got quite a large fist , I 'll take it over the top , round the back and this one now I can tie , tie it off , sorry tie it off on the back of her hand now , I do n't want to tie it off on the front cos in a minute I want to put this into a sling not too tight ? |