Example sentences of "[vb past] it off the " in BNC.

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1 The wolf took one look , snatched it off the steel hook — then looked round for somewhere to hide .
2 It just poked it off the end .
3 Fireman John Peck grabbed the blade and wrestled it off the attacker as he lunged at colleagues .
4 And ripped it off the wall !
5 he did n't lend me three thousand quid , he cut it off the will
6 As she passed the new couple her beach bag caught the Factor 15 and knocked it off the table .
7 That afternoon the wheelbarrow even stuck when I pulled it off the road for a break .
8 They rolled it off the dune , then staggered up to the path along the canal bank , carrying the drum between them .
9 They kept it off the market for a year .
10 took it off the books then .
11 I spect someone chucked it off the bridge .
12 We bought it off the city , well Michelin bought it off the city council and they gazumped us and erm but we , we have tables and chairs onto the dance floor on other nights and just pull them back when it 's clear
13 We bought it off the city , well Michelin bought it off the city council and they gazumped us and erm but we , we have tables and chairs onto the dance floor on other nights and just pull them back when it 's clear
14 He bought it off the town dump ! so new fridge- freezer in the cu which is now free-standing in the corner bought it from Doug
15 You could n't face the thought of a handicapped wife so you hightailed it off the scene and out of her life .
16 Alfie Stewart cleared it off the line , but only into the path of Johnny Jameson who steered it home from an acute angle .
17 Now it is only his second touch of the ball , two minutes later it could have been two nil ; as Ian Beechey found Nigel Mott in space , he rounded the Rayner 's keeper , but Hanger Hines cleared it off the line .
18 The one-day game in Trinidad was , according to Wisden ‘ described by many as the best one-day international played in the West Indies ’ , and England won it off the final ball .
19 It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered .
20 She tugged it off the body .
21 Then he hurled it off the roof as far as he could , shouting at the top of his voice a threat to all evil spirits : warning them that tonight was the night they must leave the village for good .
22 Anyway , I thought I 'll have this away and I slid it off the shelf and it dropped like a ton of bricks on me leg and broke me ankle .
23 I can not remember ever feeling hungry ; you did n't have to go looking for food , you just picked it off the trees .
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