Example sentences of "[pers pn] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he says , sells his off at a quarter of a million , per cube . |
| 2 | Gaily selected the tools and took them off down the path to the back-gate . |
| 3 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 4 | Mothers no doubt think they are doing the very best for their children , getting them off to a good night 's sleep . |
| 5 | The Everglades kite in Florida picks up snails and carries them off to a feeding perch . |
| 6 | We could send them off to a university or something like that so the . |
| 7 | The taxi took them off to a small restaurant , and with everywhere seeming crowded to full capacity Fabia guessed , when they were straight away shown to a table , that Ven must have had the forethought to book in advance . |
| 8 | The conventional way of cleaning fabrics is to cart them off to the washing machine , wash them , dry them , and cart them back again . |
| 9 | Which brings us to one vital and final point on the matter of taking our fauna aloft and then casting them off to the winds not knowing exactly where they are going to land . |
| 10 | The pressure became too much as sponsors , fly-by-nights and average New Zealanders sent them off to the World Cup with the message that all New Zealand expected them to win . |
| 11 | The band trundled back to their hotel — the infamous Chelsea Hotel — to get their best party rags on and were halfway through their quick-change when the NY police burst into their room and hauled them off to the station . |
| 12 | Each ship is built for the coronation of the ruler and on his or her death bears them off to the Isle of the Dead to rest at last with the ancient rulers of Ulthuan . |
| 13 | To get into this trade , the Company was reorganized in 1663 and added buying slaves and shipping them off to the sugar islands to its original objectives . |
| 14 | Respectable England did not have the stomach for such a drastic curtailment of civil liberties , however , and although fearful of how to absorb the most noxious criminal elements back into society without the option of packing them off to the colonies , the deliberations of the mid-1850s bogged down in suggestions for more effective surveillance of ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ men , together with some wishful thinking about reviving transportation in some form or another . |
| 15 | I draw in the markings of each Friesian heifer — they 're all unique , you see — and send them off to the breed society , then they 're registered . ’ |
| 16 | had to keep dragging them off to the toilet , they 'd never seen blind children you see they 'd all seen adults |
| 17 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 18 | So even University was n't completely on one side , and again the City was erm there was this sort of Puritan element that did n't like the King 's religious policies , erm there was this general feeling against the University which tended to put them off to the other side , but there are undoubtedly loyal citizens erm citizens loyal to the King . |
| 19 | This is what pisses me off so often you know , things like the halls of residence and stuff are there to help the students and they do n't , they just try and rip them off for every cent they can do it for . |
| 20 | I had thrown away my chances in life , pawned them off for a few cheap thrills . |
| 21 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 22 | They never were , and war in 1879 cut their value , many holders selling them off for a pittance . |
| 23 | Indeed , Mr Pocklington and his ilk would take small cannon onto a suitable lake and fire them off for the edification of the plumber partridges who came to nest in the district . |
| 24 | Between 2 January and 6 January 1939 , for example , the brothers walked forty-two miles in the Welsh Marches ( i.e. borders — from me Old English mearc ) , and rounded them off with a stay in Great Malvern . |
| 25 | Nielson does not want to scare them off with a mountain of assorted technology . |
| 26 | Elizabeth saw them off with a sense of loss , and heartfelt relief . |
| 27 | His mother put her hands back on the wheel but threw them off with a scream . |
| 28 | A plan that sometimes works very well — after their kitchen equipment ( which should include a refrigerator ) has been checked — is to start them off with a ‘ gift ’ for their larder of a small box-full of a variety of inexpensive sauces , seasonings and flavourings , which can be used to add interest to very simple meals . |
| 29 | Look for any spots of etch-resist which are unwanted : these can be removed by wiping them off with a cotton bud dipped in acetone ( nail varnish remover ) . |
| 30 | These can be removed simply by wiping them off with a damp cloth . |