Example sentences of "[pers pn] off on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Then he packed them off on a plane to Islamabad to meet the president .
2 In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’
3 As the sub-topics mount up , mark them off on the pattern diagram ( see figure 2 in chapter 4 ) .
4 His wife packed a box with various goodies for Leonora to take to Penry , then walked with them to the jetty , and waved them off on the Sea-Fret , a sturdy fishing-boat a lot newer than Penry 's .
5 Back inside I felt sick and my stomach gurgled , starting me off on a worry about the absence of toilet facilities .
6 The Land Rover dropped me off on the edge of the town , surprisingly on a tarmac road , and I arranged to meet the lads nine miles further on .
7 He saw me off on the bus .
8 ‘ At the house — he dropped me off on the way .
9 And dad could knock me off on the way to get the papers .
10 I mean she used to toss , toss me off on the old and there 's , there 's and she used to sit on there used , used to sit on there she used to toss me off and I got this fucking as she 's tossing me off she did this love bite .
11 Being inconsiderate to the doctor and other patients will get you off on a bad footing .
12 She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ .
13 She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ .
14 If they suss out that you 're a fanatical prospector they 'll have a great time winding you up and sending you off on a series of wild goose chases .
15 It set off packed from top to bottom with Sheffield area anglers , fishing rods and maggots and dropped you off on the canal at Clayworth where George lived until he died about ten years ago .
16 work on the basis of er , we fill up just before we drop you off on the way back
17 ‘ I am sure it was my accounts of my experiences which set her off on the same route .
18 There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys .
19 ‘ Good luck , ’ said Sophia , seeing her off on the doorstep .
20 But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell .
21 It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune .
22 Despite his strange dealings in the transfer market up to now , I 'm still one of the pro-Wilko group , and I 'm not going to start slagging him off on the basis of rumours about what he might conceivably do .
23 Responsible for giving trainer Grant Eden a broken heel after throwing him off on the gallops , Artistic Reef made up for it with a game neck victory over favourite Palacegate Episode .
24 Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down .
25 Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand .
26 No wh what I 'm saying is why ca n't we produce the letters off the box let's , can we find out exactly what it would , what , how er if we can find a way of getting this information downloaded onto a disk and then run it off on a straightforward standard letter basis .
27 I used to rub it off on the way to school .
28 The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed .
29 Yes , okay and we 're still coming round yet again and the last one cos she 's got quite a large fist , I 'll take it over the top , round the back and this one now I can tie , tie it off , sorry tie it off on the back of her hand now , I do n't want to tie it off on the front cos in a minute I want to put this into a sling not too tight ?
30 Yes , okay and we 're still coming round yet again and the last one cos she 's got quite a large fist , I 'll take it over the top , round the back and this one now I can tie , tie it off , sorry tie it off on the back of her hand now , I do n't want to tie it off on the front cos in a minute I want to put this into a sling not too tight ?
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