Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They just happened to move me off into this quieter road . |
| 2 | Wednesday it went very well indeed , yes , I , we made forty four pounds , twenty nine pence on the day and then Betty went to Sawbridgeworth with some cushion covers and managed to sell them off for another five pounds so we got . |
| 3 | Charles planned to marry her off to this man . |
| 4 | I saw the way you had to fight him off in that first dance — the bastard 's hands were everywhere ! ’ |
| 5 | But , as other African countries have discovered , African insurance companies were too small to carry major risks and had to lay them off with foreign re-insurers . |
| 6 | It was partly for shame after all the talk and the things that the papers said , but as well as that they wanted to cut him off for good . ’ |