Example sentences of "[vb past] me off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He propelled me off the terrace and through the shuttered dining-room . |
| 2 | J. V. Night duty was what got me off the job . |
| 3 | Have n't I seen over the years what it has done to my husband , a man who lifted me off the shelf just before my sell-by date expired ? |
| 4 | I thought the hand-cranking on the ‘ 109 a bit dodgy , till an impatient Navy pilot threw me off the wing of a Harvard into the prop , miraculously only tearing my jacket and grazing my arm , putting me in dock for a couple of days . |
| 5 | Bus conductor , , tickets please , tick what 's a matter , mate ? well you know and the man threw me off the train and listen , he goes come on gov , give me the letter I 'll read it . |
| 6 | the man threw me off the bus and he goes all right then , let me read it . |
| 7 | I was painting the back of the house one Saturday , when she shook me off the ladder , I got a compound fracture on me left leg . |
| 8 | Finally , he showed me off the premises with the injunction , accompanied by a theatrical wink , that I should get straight on to him if I ever had any bother . |
| 9 | She pulled me off the streets really . ’ |
| 10 | Lenka adjusted her fur coat , blew on her hands , opened it up and let rip : the noise nearly blew me off the balcony , a stupendous megalomaniac combination of centuries of Bach fugues and the Incredible Dr Phibes . |
| 11 | Were it not for the narrow strip of tar , I would have been stuck hopelessly — several times I was bogged down when the wind blew me off the road . |
| 12 | But I ran for them and won most everything , so it was good fun , and it also kept me off the streets , which pleased my parents . |
| 13 | Between then , the cheap beer , hospitality and subconscious warnings of the physio almost kept me off the sandstone . |
| 14 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
| 15 | Not today , however , and now my route took me off the road by a stile and up over the hill by an old quarry track . |