Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 4 | He drank when young and while still young drank a lot , challenging himself to knock off all comers , but most of all to align himself with the legendary drinking miners who could and did sweat it off down the pit while Richard had to force it off in games . |
| 5 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 6 | She knew it had been hard for her Mother when her Father had shipped her off to the United States to escape the war . |
| 7 | Mary 's offer had been rejected without their thinking twice about it and she and Adam had said goodbye in a cool , offhand sort of way and Rufus had driven her off to the station in Goblander . |
| 8 | It was clear to me that his own personal preoccupations , such as had been conveyed to me by Father D'Arcy and hinted at by others , had cut him off from the workings of certain institutions — his unawareness of Collingwood 's preferment was a case in point — and again he wanted to be informed what the young were thinking . |
| 9 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 10 | She had passed it off at the time , saying , ‘ That 's right , Sarah ! |
| 11 | Then he had sent her off to the lingerie department with the assistant , admonishing her to choose the prettiest undergarments . |
| 12 | Before its publication Goodwin had sent her off to the British Museum to research the old Black Dwarf . |
| 13 | As soon as they saw a lonely person , they had to drag him off to the woods Jesus Christ ! |
| 14 | So even University was n't completely on one side , and again the City was erm there was this sort of Puritan element that did n't like the King 's religious policies , erm there was this general feeling against the University which tended to put them off to the other side , but there are undoubtedly loyal citizens erm citizens loyal to the King . |
| 15 | If some local traveller wanted to sleep it off in the Rectory , who was she to say he should not . |