Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I , I mean I du n no I mean I just , I just ha , I just had to tell you because I mean it really is pissing me off the way fucking Catherine treats me , she was alright before like and when I 'm on my own , no |
| 2 | He says that that it 's a good way of introducing youngsters to trials riding , as well as keeping them off the streets . |
| 3 | And I could never sit through all these interviews , transcribing them off the tape afterwards . |
| 4 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 5 | 2 Straighten left leg out behind you , keeping it off the floor . |
| 6 | Its benevolently smiling head fell off and bounced with a sickening crunch from the beam projector into another of the statues , knocking it off the deck of the float and into the canal . |
| 7 | Well I am I am I am quite sure that the person who 's actually if you appointed them treasurer has got the authority to be able to say , there was ten pounds difference , I 'm knocking it off the door and that 's it . |
| 8 | Before he was very , very bored , no challenges for him , nothing to do , erm , this guy 's been at director level , er , trouble-shooting for large abattoirs , going in and sorting problems out , and picking them off the ground , so he 's had loads of challenges , erm , the company 's just so slow for him . |
| 9 | This may turn out to be possibly the most innovative airshow scenario staged anywhere this year — detailed down to Flyco flagging them off the ‘ deck ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm ordering you off the Mills case with immediate effect . ’ |
| 11 | Instead of ordering her off the boat , he was now beginning a more subtle campaign . |
| 12 | A friend 's meeting her off the boat and driving her up . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Why do n't you give that piece of rubbish to Oxfam ? ’ he said , picking it off the mantelpiece roughly . |
| 14 | and it 's cheaper than ordering it off the catalogue . |
| 15 | He swung it down , bouncing it off the counter , and reached into his coat pocket . |
| 16 | More recently Hairy Hands has been reported as wresting steering wheels from drivers ' hands and forcing them off the road , often causing appalling accidents . |
| 17 | In fact I do n't know what made me think he was that way in the first place — unless it was you , of course , leading me off the trail ! |
| 18 | The teddies were shouting , chivvying and bullying them off the pavement on to the road . |
| 19 | They are taken and inserted ( ‘ struck ’ ) in the same way as softwood cuttings , although many gardeners remove whole sideshoots , pulling them off the main stem with a short portion of bard ( a ‘ heel ’ ) to aid rooting ; neatly trim any ragged edges on the heel , and pinch out the tips of naturally bushy subjects . |
| 20 | And erm my used to tell me about er when they were serving their time , all the apprentices used to clump their work on a Monday afternoon to go to the panopticon And at that particular time , they had turns on and if they did n't like them they pelted them with tomatoes and oranges and they had a big hook for for pulling them off the stage . |
| 21 | ‘ If you 'd done your legal duty , my lad , we would n't have had to go through the bother of pulling you off the street , ’ said Malpass with a sickly smile . |
| 22 | The milky-eyed man was back on his feet , the zeal of his speech fetching him off the ground in little hops and leaps . |
| 23 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 24 | The court heard several witnesses say they saw Mr Austin 's car suddenly swerve to the right in the outsidfe lane , then violently to the left and into the front of the bus forcing it off the carriageway . |
| 25 | Having no idea of the detonation mechanism , he mentally called up the shortest route to the deck , while grasping the device and pulling it off the wall . |
| 26 | He slowed the car , turning it off the main road down a narrow lane that led to the river before bringing it to a halt and cutting the engine . |
| 27 | Lukic was panicking , dealing with Newsome 's backpasses by drilling them off the park headlong into the stands . |
| 28 | either erm because redundancies are coming up , or Imperial trustees down , they were just got ridden of as a way of moving them off the trust . |
| 29 | either erm because redundancies are coming or as Imperial Trustees found , they were just got ridden of as a way of moving them off the trust . |
| 30 | getting him off the dodgems perhaps will be a bigger problem . |