Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 2 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 3 | Florence was moving from one foot to the other as she helped her off with the coat . |
| 4 | He glanced involuntarily at Jennifer Morgan who said she would make tea , which was what her mother preferred , and bore her off to the kitchen . |
| 5 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |
| 6 | Detectives also want to trace a driver who is thought to have given 3 men a lift and dropped them off in the Blisworth area on Sunday night . |
| 7 | ‘ At the house — he dropped me off on the way . |
| 8 | The Land Rover dropped me off on the edge of the town , surprisingly on a tarmac road , and I arranged to meet the lads nine miles further on . |
| 9 | ‘ We had breakfast and Mummy dropped me off at the playground , ’ Verena told police . |
| 10 | Dropped me off at the cross roads and went straight down there to drop off at Newark Road . |
| 11 | Early on the morning of the evacuation the families were preparing to embark when , in full sight of the military escort , gunmen surrounded the plane , forced the 11 men into a truck at gunpoint , and drove them off into the bush . |
| 12 | It set off packed from top to bottom with Sheffield area anglers , fishing rods and maggots and dropped you off on the canal at Clayworth where George lived until he died about ten years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ Thank you for the meal , ’ she said as Fen dropped her off at the end of the towpath . |
| 14 | He had the bottles placed under his bed , and when the ward sister tried to interfere he fended her off with the crook while he produced medical certificates , all signed by army doctors , stating his need for regular supplies of the stuff . |
| 15 | The band trundled back to their hotel — the infamous Chelsea Hotel — to get their best party rags on and were halfway through their quick-change when the NY police burst into their room and hauled them off to the station . |
| 16 | However , when he grabbed Richard Baxter 's cloak it came away , and before he could do any more harm a couple of by-standers restrained him and hauled him off to the magistrates . |
| 17 | They ripped it off in the name of God . |
| 18 | The tepidity of most British cinema during the 1950s made Anderson resistant to the values of commercial filmmaking , and this cut him off from the possibility of developing his critical argument through filmmaking . |
| 19 | In fact , they whisked me off to the Nanking Workers ' Hospital , where I stayed in ‘ solitary confinement ’ until this afternoon . |
| 20 | His wife packed a box with various goodies for Leonora to take to Penry , then walked with them to the jetty , and waved them off on the Sea-Fret , a sturdy fishing-boat a lot newer than Penry 's . |
| 21 | She swung her bottom south-south-west and steered herself off up the path . |
| 22 | She noticed Diana 's uncertainty and , ignoring the other guests who were still buzzing over Diana 's choice of dress , whisked her off to the powder room . |
| 23 | ‘ He kissed me on the cheek and I waved him off at the door and watched TV before going to bed . |
| 24 | But since Rayful 's father started him off in the business with a packet of cocaine from New York , prosecutors allege that Mr Edmond has built up a vast business concern , generating sales of up to $2m ( £1.25m ) a week . |
| 25 | She fluffed it in rehearsal , but pulled it off for the cameras . |
| 26 | She was a gentle quiet girl , deeply thoughtful , and we hit it off from the start . |
| 27 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 28 | We saw them off at the airfield , we being Sogono and myself . |
| 29 | He saw me off on the bus . |
| 30 | Dana saw me off at the station . |