Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 2 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 3 | The wheelbarrow seemed to want to shake me off like a steer at a rodeo . |
| 4 | The conventional way of cleaning fabrics is to cart them off to the washing machine , wash them , dry them , and cart them back again . |
| 5 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
| 6 | Whoever killed Kemp had time : time to cart him off to the river , ant dump him there — gently , Lewis — without even a splash to startle the cygnets … ’ |
| 7 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 8 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 9 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 10 | If a lesson involves groupwork , you might even experiment with keeping the camera fixed on one group of learners — it is possible to lock it off without an operator and it need not be too obvious to students that they are being singled out . |
| 11 | When he did n't reply she felt something bad approaching and tried to ward it off with an apology . |
| 12 | The division between compositors and machinemen offered employers an opportunity to play one off against the other , weakening the union 's bargaining power . |
| 13 | The Serbs were aware that the powers were not genuinely interested in Serbian independence , and tried to play one off against the other . |
| 14 | He neglected all his duties and so there was nothing for it , either we had to wipe him off as a son , which is an impossible thing for a parent to do , or we had to decide the only other course open to us which was to kidnap him and have him de-programmed . |
| 15 | But when she looked at the mirror again the stain of spectacles was still there and she had to wipe it off with a cloth so that Larry would not see . |
| 16 | The parachute has to be packed into a realistic pack — no self-respecting dropnik could be expected to cast itself off with a bundle of nylon in its arms . |
| 17 | We may be able to put it off for a while , but make that decision , we have got to , some day or another . |
| 18 | If some local traveller wanted to sleep it off in the Rectory , who was she to say he should not . |
| 19 | to switch me off at the flat . |
| 20 | We can say we 're going to have to keep you off for a bit longer yet . |
| 21 | I do n't want to send anybody off to the mensa in case something 's happened and he needs us . |
| 22 | No , I 'm going to switch it off in a minute |
| 23 | He 's gon na give it into Mericlean and Mericlean , just said we 'll have to send it off to the tax office to get your tax code changed . |
| 24 | But Mr Endara is probably relieved to see him off to a US prison . |
| 25 | It therefore becomes a little universe of independent reality in revolt from God and the rest of time , and able to fence itself off from the lessons of the past and the demands of the future . |
| 26 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 27 | No servant should be at liberty to carry it off to a rival in trade and thus save him the expense and expertise of doing it himself " . |
| 28 | ‘ The planes used to drop them off over the marshes . ’ |
| 29 | I told Jean-Claude to drop me off at the Place St Michel . |
| 30 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |