Example sentences of "have [to-vb] off a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the van has to drop off a couple of wheelchairs and things to other places first … |
| 2 | Instead of having to cancel a trip to the Blue Mountains , she 'd had to put off a trip to the Blue Danube . |
| 3 | There 's speculation that he may have to sell off a collection of Ferraris . |
| 4 | But the north London giants will have to fight off a bid from Everton who want to take the bustling hit-man to Merseyside . |
| 5 | But they will have to beat off a challenge from French millionaires Monaco , who head a posse of foreign clubs shadowing him at Forest . |
| 6 | Why did Angelica Kauffman return so often to the image of Penelope , wife of Ulysses mother of Telemachus , who was abandoned by her husband when he went off to fight the Trojan Wars , and had to fend off a pack of vulture-like suitors who wanted to take over Ulysses ' estate , wealth and derelict wife . |