Example sentences of "and [verb] them off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 2 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 3 | I draw in the markings of each Friesian heifer — they 're all unique , you see — and send them off to the breed society , then they 're registered . ’ |
| 4 | He was determined to get behind the Russians and cut them off from the east . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Worst of all , some tiles are inaccessible without forming a bridge with others — think on your toes and pair them off in the right order , or it 's back to the beginning . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 10 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 11 | And get them off of the streets . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Indeed , Mr Pocklington and his ilk would take small cannon onto a suitable lake and fire them off for the edification of the plumber partridges who came to nest in the district . |
| 14 | Gaily selected the tools and took them off down the path to the back-gate . |
| 15 | ( He achieved a great feat of maritime engineering by building ships on the Atlantic shore , transporting them bodily over the hills he had explored and sailing them off into the Pacific . ) |
| 16 | It is mildly blasphemous , too , to be sent into this breathing world with trillions and trillions of brain-cells , all anxious to fire and to titillate , and to shutter them off against the more vigorous half of human thought . |
| 17 | Mr Tate advises prospective purchasers to produce a written list of requirements , and to check them off against the package one by one . |
| 18 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
| 19 | To get into this trade , the Company was reorganized in 1663 and added buying slaves and shipping them off to the sugar islands to its original objectives . |