Example sentences of "[pers pn] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the final days , the occupiers were reported to have rounded up Kuwaiti civilians and carried them off to unknown fates in Iraq . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's too easy to shrug them off as drippy MOR bores because popularity , ultimately , has its price . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The English archers poured a deadly hail of arrows into the French troops , and the English men-at-arms finished them off in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 12 | Imagine that we , the human species , released one billion living spores into the Universe , sending them off in random directions . |
| 13 | But the white-and-holy showed them off like prized exhibits , for they liked to make the most of their scanty history . |
| 14 | But no I think er they thought I could speak English better than some of them themselves so they sent me off to English universities or wherever to put across our problems . |
| 15 | He admitted : ‘ Lawrie McMenemy took me off at half- time in Spain after I 'd been booked . |
| 16 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 17 | Let Trudi Pacter 's latest book sweep you off into high society |
| 18 | They can tip you off about possible snags , — and about the shortcuts as well . |
| 19 | I did n't like being called a rowdie , but then I did n't exactly have the time or resources to sue for defamation , if that 's the legal terminology for someone who slags you off in public . |
| 20 | It was impossible to fob her off with vague statements — and perhaps unwise . |
| 21 | He had married her and he was going to stay married , and no nonsense about other women and buying her off with unexpected handouts . |
| 22 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 23 | She knew what that could mean , when the labourer was as young and inexperienced as he , and she looked him over again carefully for the signs of his servitude , ignoring the forbidding stare that warned her off from probing . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's too beautiful a day for you to go on Mr Gajduseking me the whole while , ’ he cut her off in easy fashion . |
| 25 | Dreaming of ensnaring a visitor who will whisk him off to fabulous Detroit , Sonny is completely unaware that ‘ people do n't go there . |
| 26 | And sent him off to distant jungles . |
| 27 | Although practical experience was not required , Balliol decided to build its own laboratory , and asked Smith to run it , sending him off to various distinguished chemists to obtain an appropriate training . |
| 28 | It 'll mean seeing so much less of him , and God knows I seem to see little enough already , but being an only boy I 've felt I must pack him off to boarding-school to get some men in his life and break the apron-strings . |
| 29 | Some correspondent will probably now write to tell me that Brunson is bravely suffering from some life-threatening condition , but he delivered his questions between swallows with the aplomb of Peter Lorre squealing to Humphrey Bogart as the police drag him off to certain death in Casablanca . |
| 30 | They were , however , able successfully to fob him off with various working parties , with joint industry — civil service membership , to look at detailed questions such as the principles of pricing and the possibility of load limiters . |