Example sentences of "[noun prp] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dropped a sulky David off at the Grand Hotel . |
| 2 | DeFreitas and Malcolm finished Pakistan off with the new ball , Botham bagging his 120th catch and spoiling his chance to go ahead of Cowdrey when Waqar ( 0 ) edged Lewis . |
| 3 | Man U were absolutely crap , made all the funnier by the fact that the ref gave free-kicks to the Turks for all their play-acting , booked 3 or four of the red twats , and sent Cuntona off after the match . |
| 4 | As long as Corinth led the Peloponnesians , Athens had the best of it , though she was sufficiently alarmed to build the Long Walls , which secured communications between Athens and her harbour city of Piraeus : in future , Spartan invasions would not cut Athens off from the sea ( Thuc. i. 107 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ You may say , ‘ Cart Simon off to the nuthouse ! ’ ’ |
| 6 | She had taken Maggie off to the sunshine . |
| 7 | He dropped Jessica off at the harbour , because it was so beautiful and there was that little bar if she should get fractious . |
| 8 | I nearly always won , as I remember ; and as we left the club or the hall I would make quite a show of hailing a taxi , offering to drop Julian off at the nearest tube . |
| 9 | It was this same Spirit that drove Jesus off into the desert to be tempted after his baptism , that pioneered the mission of the early Church often in the most bizarre , unexpected and ‘ unorthodox ’ ways ; that gripped a man like Philip , removed him from a flourishing evangelistic campaign in Samaria and drove him into the desert because there was one man who needed his help . |
| 10 | When their journey began , a crucial ingredient consisted in Boswell being able to show Johnson off to the people of Scotland who met him . |
| 11 | HEADING FOR HOME MONA sees Mellor off at the airport ( above ) after the holiday at the villa ( right ) |
| 12 | It cut Romney Marsh off from the mainland . |
| 13 | These offensives enabled the bombing of the Japanese mainland and cut Japan off from the empire so crucial to any continuing war effort . |
| 14 | It was also Canon Stringer who started Kate off in the direction of old-fashioned double primroses and auriculas . |
| 15 | drop Aaron off in the morning |
| 16 | Anne and Sarah saw Terry off at the station , and Anne tactfully went to the station bookstall while Sarah and Terry said goodbye . |
| 17 | She had left Chetwynd Magna at ten o'clock , having seen both Gay and Felicity off by the London train ; and now it was nearly three , and her feet were cold ; she had eaten the sandwiches Matron had cut for her , and of course she had read all her papers hours and hours ago . |
| 18 | In April 1938 their eastward advance reached the Mediterranean near Castellón , cutting Catalonia off from the rest of Republican Spain . |
| 19 | He dropped Julie off at the house , then continued on to Stone to change the accumulator . |