Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] off [prep] the " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | The chimney swift of Asia manages to collect twigs by flying at a branch , seizing one with its beak and breaking it off by the sheer force of its aerial velocity . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | You do n't have to fight your way into a plastic-wrapped leg of hairy chicken , while you 're hurtled through space at the mercy of some suburban pilot with piles who thinks only of his duty frees and having it off with the stewardess . |
| 34 | He franked it immediately and sent it off with the monkey . |
| 35 | Indeed , Mr Pocklington and his ilk would take small cannon onto a suitable lake and fire them off for the edification of the plumber partridges who came to nest in the district . |
| 36 | Gaily selected the tools and took them off down the path to the back-gate . |
| 37 | ( He achieved a great feat of maritime engineering by building ships on the Atlantic shore , transporting them bodily over the hills he had explored and sailing them off into the Pacific . ) |
| 38 | The house , nevertheless , had visitors interesting to the children ; a couple of famous Congregationalist laymen Frank Salter and Bernard Manning , both of whom were historians and riotous rompers with children ; the Reddaway children who lived next door ; the daughters of G. G. Coulton the English hammer of Popes ; and the friendship between the two sets of children caused Coulton to take an interest in Michael and carry him off to the village church at Coton to see medieval graffiti . |
| 39 | It would not be past Zhukov 's greed and cunning to try and fob him off with the wrong pie e of film . |
| 40 | It is mildly blasphemous , too , to be sent into this breathing world with trillions and trillions of brain-cells , all anxious to fire and to titillate , and to shutter them off against the more vigorous half of human thought . |
| 41 | The moment Owen had come in , however , he had waylaid him and taken him off behind the potted palms . |
| 42 | Mr Tate advises prospective purchasers to produce a written list of requirements , and to check them off against the package one by one . |
| 43 | The copper map had evidently been fastened to the concrete plinth through the medium of some nineteen-thirties metallurgical technology which is sadly lost to us today , because it ruggedly defied even the most enterprising attempts to prise it free and bear it off to the smelting pot . |
| 44 | They used to put the cloth on for the winter and take it off during the summer . |
| 45 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
| 46 | To get into this trade , the Company was reorganized in 1663 and added buying slaves and shipping them off to the sugar islands to its original objectives . |
| 47 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 48 | She fluffed it in rehearsal , but pulled it off for the cameras . |
| 49 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |