Example sentences of "[noun pl] off and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 2 | Then The Sugargliders — their hair still glossy from the blood of Metallica , who tried to stop them coming in — stride across the shattered bar-room floor and pull their own heads off and ram them down The Rosaries ' throats . |
| 3 | ‘ What they will be hoping for is that they can get to a few months before before the next election , take the brakes off and try to deceive the people once again things are back on course . |
| 4 | A bespectacled man with stand-up hair , who has taken his shoes off and hung his feet over the arm of the chair . |
| 5 | ‘ And he tied the horse up ; took the shoes off and put them back on again . |
| 6 | She 'd slipped her shoes off and had her feet tucked under her bottom , her legs demurely covered by that gauzy dress , but it was too late , he 'd seen … |
| 7 | She pulled Fergus 's shoes off and nodded to the door . |
| 8 | Take your shoes off and see what condition your feet are in . |
| 9 | Carla took her shoes off and loosed his arm so that she could walk through the lip of foam . |
| 10 | She invites me into the living room , pours me a coffee , sits down beside me , slips her shoes off and groans about the working day she has just been through . |
| 11 | Like it really , that film really pisses me off right , when he 's beating her up and he rips her knickers off and fucks her up the arse and Nick 's going that 's how to treat a wo it 's disgusting fucking a woman up her arse , and ripping off the woman 's knickers and rip putting it up sitting watching it thinking |
| 12 | Take your skis off and have a breather . |
| 13 | ‘ Where did you learn anyway ? ’ he asked as they snapped their skis off and bumped the ice from them before going in . |
| 14 | It 's good to have someone to bounce ideas off and talk to — it 's something men have known about and done for years . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm attacking the bridge now , ’ the General said , ‘ and if I take it , I 'm coming back here and I 'm going to tear your prudent bloody balls off and give your regiment to a real man . ’ |
| 16 | When the days grew longer in what passes for spring on that windy plateau , we used to go into Lincoln on our days off and have lunch in the Naafi Club . |
| 17 | They started off , like most other overseas enterprises , on a commercial basis by raising money from investors who stayed in England , and it took them about a dozen years or so to pay the investors off and become entirely free to run their own affairs . |
| 18 | And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked . |
| 19 | If you ca n't make a straightforward decision you 'd be wise to put things off and wait until certain issues settle themselves . |
| 20 | I 've never seen anything like it before , ’ and she was looking from one to the other , wondering which one it was meant to fit , when Miss Rene startled her by saying , ‘ Well , get your coat and things off and try it on . ’ |
| 21 | Aggie had taken her hat and coat off and had dropped on to the settle , and as he entered the room she said immediately , ‘ Somethin' will have to be … ’ but paused as Millie came in on Ben 's heels , and she nodded towards her saying , ‘ Go and take your things off and set the tray . ’ |
| 22 | You know it might land on her her bed , see if it landed on our bed at least you can chuck the blankets off and protect her and take her out of the room , but when she 's in her own bedroom in a single bed you ca n't , you ca n't do things like that . |
| 23 | When photographing your fish any tiny marks will show up very clearly , so scrape the algae off and polish the outside as well . |
| 24 | ‘ It might take a letter a week to get to Germany , might n't it ? ’ said Mrs Fanshawe , taking her rings off and amusing herself by making them flash in the sunlight right into Nurse Rose 's eyes . |
| 25 | With one swift motion McGowan reached up , took the glasses off and tucked them in his pocket . |
| 26 | He took his glasses off and put them on the table , and his eyes were dancing as she had n't seen them dance since the night he had revealed the identity of Miguelito . |
| 27 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 28 | And then we there was a chap with another with another Opel who was a bit of engineering type , so he took my wheels off and cleaned the pads for me you see . |
| 29 | I was sweating , you could imagine thinking God we 're going to have to take the wheels off and drag it through with a tractor or something like that on skids , cos we needed the van for Monday and there was n't going to be a lot of t But then suddenly yes a again I suddenly th |
| 30 | So with me it started off by taking the top strings off and playing bass . |