Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 2 | Dr Wedderburn suggests as she dashes off the answer her bleep . |
| 3 | She 's used to louts , thugs , layabouts — it 's her job : she cuts off the bits that Society does n't like and paints over the scars . |
| 4 | For example , when she has to listen to the legends of the Catholic saints , which are read at ‘ la lecture pieuse ’ in the school where she teaches English , Lucy is sickened by ‘ tales that were nightmares of oppression , privation and agony ’ ; in a silent act of revulsion she breaks off the points of her scissors as she listens . |
| 5 | 13 She jumps off the perch to the bottom of the cage . |
| 6 | She rolls off the bed and stubs the fag out . |
| 7 | I mean there 's one woman there working on a Three Eight Sixes twenty five megahertz and she works off the floppy all the time , she does n't use the hard drive . |
| 8 | He turns off the main drag . |
| 9 | He turns off the engine , comes out of his car , walks round it on to the pavement , then tells us to turn and face the wall . |
| 10 | and he goes off the big city ma ma , like this and he 's got a fucking flying helmet and a flying bucket |
| 11 | It whistles off the stars |
| 12 | She laughs now as he bounds off the bed , aware that his hairy — poilu — parts are comical . |
| 13 | It stands off the A61 north of Nottingham . |
| 14 | It lives off the local people , eating the camels of roaming nomads , who appeared to offer them willingly . |
| 15 | When this diluted sound hits an object , say a fly , it bounces off the fly . |
| 16 | A radar beam is one that you send out and it bounces off the thing you 're trying to measure the distance of and then the beam comes back and is picked up again and you measure the time between the beam going out and the beam coming back , and that 's twice the time it takes for the beam to get to the object and back again . |
| 17 | This conceptual inflation tends to reduce the effectiveness of the idea by playing into the hands of critics who maintain that the concept of dependency is unviable because it closes off the theoretical space for explaining growth and development , however limited , where it does occur . |
| 18 | It closes off the street half way and you know George Street is a commercial street erm delivery lorries will go up and not know where to turn round and come back or what entrance or exit they can use , and also because traffic ca n't use it it will simply put a terrific amount on another of the main streets , namely Beaumont Street . |
| 19 | This action is called ‘ cut-off ’ because it cuts off the input — the hostile face looming over it . |
| 20 | I just hope he stays off the gear and we can get straightened out . |
| 21 | As the head of science put it : I think once it gets off the ground and we have got the library and the integrated studies and study skills teaching in a central resource area for the whole school , I think then , people are going to have to start seriously appraising the way they teach and I think that can only be a good thing . |
| 22 | The theory is it keeps off the white fly and attracts pollenaters . |
| 23 | Let's hope he gets off the floor . |
| 24 | He takes off the SLEEPER 's crown , kisses it . |
| 25 | With the disc , the lamprey clamps itself on the flank of a fish , and with the tongue it rasps off the flesh , eating the fish alive . |
| 26 | ‘ Never is here , Den , ’ says George , then he throws off the lid of the Monster 's bin and heaves it up on his shoulder . |
| 27 | At one point it rises off the ground like a periscope , looking around itself , for a fraction of a second casting a backward eye at us . |
| 28 | He shrugs off the jacket of his suit and drapes it over the back of a chair . |
| 29 | Erm and then any domestic policy which affects the outside , so that 's a projection of domestic interests erm into the outside world , so I 'll show you what I 've written down and it 's influenced by what you 've got in that book by Clarke , I 'm afraid it falls off the end a bit , foreign policy is a government activity concerned with relations between the state and other actors in the international arena , that should be . |
| 30 | ‘ It glares off the surface , ’ said Robert . |