Example sentences of "[pers pn] off [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mothers no doubt think they are doing the very best for their children , getting them off to a good night 's sleep . |
| 2 | The taxi took them off to a small restaurant , and with everywhere seeming crowded to full capacity Fabia guessed , when they were straight away shown to a table , that Ven must have had the forethought to book in advance . |
| 3 | ‘ The language of Newton ! ’ he cried , scribbling figures on the blackboard and immediately wiping them off with a damp rag as though he were doing vanishing tricks . |
| 4 | These can be removed simply by wiping them off with a damp cloth . |
| 5 | If the right hon. and learned Gentleman supports the TECs so much , why has he started them off with a significant cut in funding ? |
| 6 | If you 're a bit large on the hips , top them off with a loose T-shirt . |
| 7 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 8 | Bruce 's far lighter cavalry cut them off in a flanking movement . |
| 9 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 10 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 11 | She would have written me off as a time-wasting nut . |
| 12 | The bus letting me off at a convenient corner in the city , I walked to the Sheraton and from a telephone there spoke to Mrs Baudelaire . |
| 13 | If I were sending you off without a decent breakfast you could say that , but as it is … ’ |
| 14 | Giving a little thought to body language beforehand will get you off to a good start . |
| 15 | Being inconsiderate to the doctor and other patients will get you off on a bad footing . |
| 16 | Since this issue of the NI is devoted to language we thought we might join them for once , but give our own particular slant and maybe set you off in a different direction . |
| 17 | She did not feel entirely at ease about this , and even went to consult the Careers Adviser in Cambridge , who gave her various leaflets , told her about trainee courses at the BBC , and sent her off for a two-day inspection of the Civil Service . |
| 18 | He shook her off with an irritable gesture and turned to the gendarme . |
| 19 | Blind panic sent her off at a stumbling run . |
| 20 | But Scotland also suffered from internal religious differences , and from the effects of the Navigation Acts after 1660 that cut her off from a good deal of overseas trade . |
| 21 | However , when Franca found herself so suddenly , for two days and in such a new way , alone in the house , her vast restless self-awareness , her life energy , set her off in a fresh direction . |
| 22 | Manville knew then that Hayman had been right in writing him off as a washed-up veteran . |
| 23 | Adam was so extreme ; they really would cart him off to a padded cell one of these days . |
| 24 | They 've taken him off to a dry house . |
| 25 | He hooks his leg forward and sweeps his opponent to the ground , finishing him off with a reverse punch to the head . |
| 26 | She was still trying to get him off with a nice society type . |
| 27 | He did n't know where Victor and Masha were ; they had separated at Heathrow , some Amnesty guys had taken him off for a boozy lunch . |
| 28 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
| 29 | His head bent towards her and once again Jenna lifted her hands to ward him off in a panic-stricken way , but her fingers felt useless . |
| 30 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |