Example sentences of "[pron] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm as I say , they did er , the people did but you never got nothing off the government for it and er , I 've always said it , he must have been a much better man than I thought he was because er , er , to go as I say from what it was in those days to start his own business and that . |
| 2 | And sh she do n't take nothing off them , she buys all the food ! |
| 3 | I try to get them off him but am not always successful . |
| 4 | As one constable stated , the ‘ Action Men ’ who are fitness conscious and orientated towards crime-fighting only adopt this mode ‘ to get them off doing work ’ . |
| 5 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 6 | She takes them off me . |
| 7 | Alan Knott was one of them off Wayne Daniel 's bowling . |
| 8 | The second wicket , like the first , produced 109 runs and he made 85 of them off 77 balls . |
| 9 | They are taken and inserted ( ‘ struck ’ ) in the same way as softwood cuttings , although many gardeners remove whole sideshoots , pulling them off the main stem with a short portion of bard ( a ‘ heel ’ ) to aid rooting ; neatly trim any ragged edges on the heel , and pinch out the tips of naturally bushy subjects . |
| 10 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 11 | Sitting in the lotus position they jumped into the air using their thighs to propel them off the ground . |
| 12 | They were quickly spotted by a police patrol who ushered them off the motorway and down the A41 slip road . |
| 13 | Why not list your own holiday requirements and then tick them off one by one as you discover for yourself what Ten Bel has to offer . |
| 14 | Henry Higgs noticed these stones too and how they ‘ used to take them off the windowsill on the way back one by one ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ You can take them off the instant you do n't need them for reading . ’ |
| 16 | The butcher chases them off the rock with kicks and abusive shouts , as though punishing them for bad behaviour . |
| 17 | ‘ It gets them off the hook , ’ explains one psychotherapist . |
| 18 | The only exotic mysterious dance this glen will witness is one where walkers run wildly about in circles waving their arms in alarm , screaming , ‘ Get them off me ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I know that if someone is sent up to Leeds to interview them , the band will meet them off the train at the right time . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh you have n't taken them off the tree ? ’ |
| 21 | Home striker Paul Crimmen let them off the hook on a number of occasions and Horsham had two goals disallowed . |
| 22 | Remember that bream , in order to grow big , live in waters rich in natural food , and pre-baiting is necessary to wean them off it enough to accept your offerings . |
| 23 | He had crossed them off one by one until there was no one left but Una O'Malley . |
| 24 | He not only met them off trains , got taxis , and frequently turned up at theatres to see how they were getting on , but would also dip into one of his baskets and present each Girl with a bar of chocolate . |
| 25 | I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him . |
| 26 | Without a pause Danny reeled them off ‘ Osgood , Woodcock and Ian Storey-Moore . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You should have let me nick them off him . ’ |
| 28 | The same American report into male sexuality that revealed which stimuli men found most ‘ exciting ’ also reported that the following turned them off the most : |
| 29 | Every time he came home he had to scoop them off the surface . |
| 30 | On many spring driven reverbs , when you switch them off the reverb signal dies immediately . |