Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the Elizabethan and Stuart era rural communities in certain regions such as the West Riding of Yorkshire or the West Midlands had an industrial character that marked them off from the societies that have so far been described . |
| 2 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 3 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 4 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 5 | I draw in the markings of each Friesian heifer — they 're all unique , you see — and send them off to the breed society , then they 're registered . ’ |
| 6 | He was determined to get behind the Russians and cut them off from the east . |
| 7 | Early on the morning of the evacuation the families were preparing to embark when , in full sight of the military escort , gunmen surrounded the plane , forced the 11 men into a truck at gunpoint , and drove them off into the bush . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Detectives also want to trace a driver who is thought to have given 3 men a lift and dropped them off in the Blisworth area on Sunday night . |
| 10 | The band trundled back to their hotel — the infamous Chelsea Hotel — to get their best party rags on and were halfway through their quick-change when the NY police burst into their room and hauled them off to the station . |
| 11 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 12 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 13 | And get them off of the streets . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Gaily selected the tools and took them off down the path to the back-gate . |
| 17 | ( 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 . ) |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mr Tate advises prospective purchasers to produce a written list of requirements , and to check them off against the package one by one . |
| 20 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
| 21 | Between 2 January and 6 January 1939 , for example , the brothers walked forty-two miles in the Welsh Marches ( i.e. borders — from me Old English mearc ) , and rounded them off with a stay in Great Malvern . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This is what pisses me off so often you know , things like the halls of residence and stuff are there to help the students and they do n't , they just try and rip them off for every cent they can do it for . |
| 24 | The Everglades kite in Florida picks up snails and carries them off to a feeding perch . |
| 25 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 26 | His mother put her hands back on the wheel but threw them off with a scream . |