Example sentences of "[pron] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he may gradually wean himself off without any pushing from you . |
| 2 | And he signs himself off from systematic criticism . |
| 3 | However many problems there may be , there is a natural human instinct to form relationships all through our lives , although occasionally one will find a recluse — someone who has deliberately cut himself off from human contact . |
| 4 | The face is continually seen hiding behind dark glasses , underwater goggles , and through a goldfish bowl , cutting himself off from those around him . |
| 5 | He immediately cuts himself off from those ambitious city men who try ‘ to win the palm , the oak , or bays , ’ emblematic of the rewards given for artistic , political and military achievement . |
| 6 | During the final days , the occupiers were reported to have rounded up Kuwaiti civilians and carried them off to unknown fates in Iraq . |
| 7 | Sad stories of fathers making fortunes out of their pretty daughters by marrying them off to antiquated old men again and again as their husbands wither and die , leaving them with fortune after fortune . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | People would stare and look away , but he did n't let them off with that . |
| 10 | Sister sent them off with one of the Hall nurses and rejoined me . |
| 11 | Mark Tollerton started them off with two early goals , then Billy Neill , Jim Joy and Mark Dunwoody settled the affair . |
| 12 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Group of 77 , as the developing countries called themselves , had already discovered the capacity of the opposing phalanx of rich , aid-giving industrialised countries either to stonewall their demands for more aid or for preferential trading arrangements , or to fob them off with empty , symbolic gestures . |
| 15 | they 're very brave Can dry them off on that |
| 16 | There 's no point in sending them off on endless — no doubt excellent — courses if there 's no incentive for them to use up large slices of their spare time in teaching the game . |
| 17 | And Gershwin 's ‘ Rhapsody ’ , the one that had started them off on this road together . |
| 18 | The amazing ‘ Street of Much Music ’ , with it 's abundance of colourful bars and restaurants is only 10–15 metres away , as is the beach where you can take advantage of your free beach mat and cultivate those tans ready to show them off at some of Kos town 's brilliant night-clubs , also 15 minutes away . |
| 19 | They work under the grim threat that armed and dangerous rebels could pick them off at any time . |
| 20 | At the moment , when we should be integrating our elderly into community life and reintegrating them into our families , we are sending them off into social exile . |
| 21 | It 's too easy to shrug them off as drippy MOR bores because popularity , ultimately , has its price . |
| 22 | As the technical programmes evolved , they gave rise to commercial activities — such as selling fuel elements and graphite to the civil power stations — and as these matured it became the practice to spin them off as separate entities or to transfer the technology and the responsibility to commercial organisations . |
| 23 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 24 | Or maybe we can simply cut them off from one another until they surrender . ’ |
| 25 | The royal couple were unpopular at court , inspired little personal loyalty even among those whose respect for the throne was greatest , and their mounting preoccupation with the haemophiliac Tsarevich — and devotion to Rasputin — cut them off from all but a minute family circle . |
| 26 | With abused children the immediate and undisputed need is for protection but , in achieving this , we may cut them off from cherished family and community links , an isolation that may prove damaging . |
| 27 | Rainwater , driven off the highway , fell in a solid wall that cut them off from any view of the outside world . |
| 28 | Should have finished them off in that first |
| 29 | Once you have placed the centre stitches on to waste yarn you can return each set of shoulder stitches to working position and cast them off in one action . |
| 30 | This means that using a program like WINFAX , you can combine document and data from a variety of Windows applications — a letter from word processing , a graphic from your paint program , a design from DTP , a graph from the spreadsheet etc and send them off in one FAX . |