Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been a cowboy film on telly that afternoon and all the little ones had come out in their cowboy hats and were firing caps off at cats and down letter-boxes . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's have a look at this rash , ’ said the doctor , helping Edward off with his shirt . |
| 3 | He 'd tried to frighten Jacqui off with the telephone messages and vicious note , but if she persisted … |
| 4 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 5 | The bowler starts things off by pressing the Bowl button ; the ‘ ball ’ will then move down the pitch at a rate selected by the Bowling rate switch . |
| 6 | Once the highwire had dropped hir off at Acropolis Ramp , the weather cycle changed and a fine mist appeared in the air to fall like rain . |
| 7 | Terence Trent D'Arby-Neither Fish Nor Flesh ( CBS 1989 ) IT WO N'T do to write D'Arby off as a pathetic Prince impersonator , because his roots are rather different-more Sixties London than Detroit funk . |
| 8 | He wants time off in lieu . |
| 9 | And even now , as he never has time off for spending the twenty-something quid a week they 'll dish him for the one-hundred-and-twenty-hour stint he puts in most weeks , he could just afford a wife and kid . |
| 10 | A combination of Grolux and warm white tubes show goldfish off to best effect . |
| 11 | He dropped Jessica off at the harbour , because it was so beautiful and there was that little bar if she should get fractious . |
| 12 | And Aunt Margaret did the same , quite often , after she shooed Melanie off to bed early . |
| 13 | Dropped Sue off at erm hairdressers . |
| 14 | On the way home from London , we dropped Giles off at Heathrow . |
| 15 | He erm such a farce he told Nigel off for showing showing off . |
| 16 | It was this same Spirit that drove Jesus off into the desert to be tempted after his baptism , that pioneered the mission of the early Church often in the most bizarre , unexpected and ‘ unorthodox ’ ways ; that gripped a man like Philip , removed him from a flourishing evangelistic campaign in Samaria and drove him into the desert because there was one man who needed his help . |
| 17 | Moments later Di dropped Wills off before heading on to London . |
| 18 | Few now want to follow Philadelphia 's lead and cut museums off from the public purse altogether — a policy that would surely up-end the Met 's unrivalled success at striking the right balance between showbiz and the unworldly . |
| 19 | Cut lengths off at ceiling and skirting with a sharp craft knife , angled into corners , for an exact fit . |
| 20 | These offensives enabled the bombing of the Japanese mainland and cut Japan off from the empire so crucial to any continuing war effort . |
| 21 | She dropped Evelyn off at home and then made her way into work . |
| 22 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 23 | He dropped Julie off at the house , then continued on to Stone to change the accumulator . |
| 24 | But there , there is an agreement actually er with employers stating that they , they will give time off for erm that 's what |
| 25 | And which we , we were n't granted the time off , we were granted time off without pay but not paid leave . |
| 26 | Well if we were granted time off without pay then , which is , this is a distinct possibility yeah , er would the respective unions present here be reimbursing their members for loss of earnings ? |
| 27 | They took off at three Gs and cars behind had to stand on their noses to make way as the big Ford burned rubber off towards the next junction south and a break in the central barrier . |
| 28 | ‘ When you did n't show up to see Kirsty off to school this morning , I thought you might have caught an early flight back to London . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It 's Inge 's job to see Kirsty off to school . ’ |
| 30 | Every morning since she 'd been here , apart from today , she 'd been up bright and early to see Kirsty off to school . |