Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am cut off at the waist for ever . |
| 2 | Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way . |
| 3 | ‘ Can I be dropped off at the airport ? ’ she was glad to ask as the signs came up . |
| 4 | so I 'm going off on the Mo on the Tuesday still be knackered after the |
| 5 | Really British , I 'm pissed off about the European passports |
| 6 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 7 | When I asked earlier what those penalties might be , I was fobbed off with the answer that the matter would be referred to the industrial tribunal , and that the worker involved might receive some form of compensation . |
| 8 | Adds Murray : ‘ I was hauled off to the station but allowed to go after agreeing to pay for the damage . ’ |
| 9 | I explained that I had n't been around as much as usual lately because I was pissed off with the way some people were behaving . |
| 10 | When Dr Solomon is happy that he 's got your ailment sussed , you 're whisked off to the diseases database . |
| 11 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 12 | Especially when you 're starting off on the right foot like you and Marilyn . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , she 's pissed off with the boy for a cultural break . ’ |
| 14 | Casting an agonised glance of appeal at Ludovico , who failed to notice it , she was led off along the terrace , away from the tables and chairs . |
| 15 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |
| 16 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 17 | But she was trotting off to the churchyard to clean the stone the other day . |
| 18 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 19 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 20 | The dog seems anxious to get the harness on ; indeed , all through the trip the dogs are always keen to pull and seem miserable when they are tied off for the night . |
| 21 | The queen spreads them over her body and they are licked off by the workers , who pass them to the rest of the colony by trophallaxis . |
| 22 | They 're cut off from the reality of what 's happening in the Cities . |
| 23 | Aye but they 're they 're starting off on the South that 's what you 've got to think . |
| 24 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 25 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 26 | The loss of innocence marred their communion with the divine love , and terror entered their hearts as they were cast off from the sustaining life of God . |
| 27 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
| 28 | Then to the accompanying curious twitch of a dozen net curtains , and a wave and smile from Josey and Charlie , they were gliding off down the narrow little street , rather like , Lisa thought , a ship gliding across water . |
| 29 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 30 | These markets had either disappeared into the new Poland , or they were screened off by the Corridor . |