Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] off [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheelbarrow seemed to want to shake me off like a steer at a rodeo . |
| 2 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We may be able to put it off for a while , but make that decision , we have got to , some day or another . |
| 7 | We can say we 're going to have to keep you off for a bit longer yet . |
| 8 | No , I 'm going to switch it off in a minute |
| 9 | But Mr Endara is probably relieved to see him off to a US prison . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | Nielson does not want to scare them off with a mountain of assorted technology . |
| 12 | Bloomsbury House helped to get him off with a warning , but there was no further contact . |
| 13 | When it fails to rise to the occasion , I no longer get rattled and threaten to chop it off with a pair of barber 's scissors , tie it up in a sack and drop it down a deep , dark well . |
| 14 | But there 's two ways of getting them off if they do latch on to you , one is to burn them off with a cigarette or a match and the other way is to use rock salt , and if you put rock salt on them they then just come off so that 's a little bit erm more humane for the leeches but it depends what you feel about them really as to whether you want to give them another chance . |
| 15 | He threatened to cut him off without a yuan if he did . ’ |