Example sentences of "[noun prp] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Clare 's seeing Sam and Josh off for a day on the speedboat . |
| 2 | She dropped a sulky David off at the Grand Hotel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was refused entry at the dentist on formal hygiene regulation grounds , and luckily , oh so luckily , I 'd met an old friend in a shop opposite the dentist so he took Bella off for a walk . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ You may say , ‘ Cart Simon off to the nuthouse ! ’ ’ |
| 8 | RECORD-BREAKER Colin Clarke set Northern Ireland off on a World Cup romp in Belfast last night . |
| 9 | She had taken Maggie off to the sunshine . |
| 10 | Never wipe Rosie and Jim off for a long time . |
| 11 | He dropped Jessica off at the harbour , because it was so beautiful and there was that little bar if she should get fractious . |
| 12 | The numbers were thinning ; there 'd been a small brawl when Doris caught Charlie sitting at Sonia 's feet ; Jane had told Sonia off in no uncertain terms and dragged her off downstairs ; one neighbour had passed rather noisily out and been lugged home ; somebody had announced an engagement . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When their journey began , a crucial ingredient consisted in Boswell being able to show Johnson off to the people of Scotland who met him . |
| 16 | HEADING FOR HOME MONA sees Mellor off at the airport ( above ) after the holiday at the villa ( right ) |
| 17 | I have absolutely no conscience about taking this stuff from Ellis , who incidentally has shunted Plutarch off to a luxurious cattery and is still wrestling at getting the hairs out of the carpets . |
| 18 | It cut Romney Marsh off from the mainland . |
| 19 | ‘ Apparently , Owen is intending to take Liz off for a weekend trip , all on their own , while the children are going to stay with a friend . |
| 20 | Her wicked guardians try to marry Cindy off to a local nob ; a disastrous fire frustrates their plans and , as we are fully expecting , love triumphants . |
| 21 | Dan dropped Joanie and Lizzy off at a respectable-looking semi-detached house and after a quick kiss on his daughter 's cheek drove away , pleased with the way he had handled everything . |
| 22 | These offensives enabled the bombing of the Japanese mainland and cut Japan off from the empire so crucial to any continuing war effort . |
| 23 | Oxford off to a flyer … but Swindon struggle . |
| 24 | Rookie Mansell off to a flyer as he smashes track record |
| 25 | It was also Canon Stringer who started Kate off in the direction of old-fashioned double primroses and auriculas . |
| 26 | Woolley sent Finlayson off with a truck to lead the driver to Callaghan . |
| 27 | drop Aaron off in the morning |
| 28 | Written at the end of the Fifties , it was a play ahead of its time , tackling issues of illegitimacy and inter-racial relations with a feminist approach , and set Cuka off on a distinguished career . |
| 29 | Anne and Sarah saw Terry off at the station , and Anne tactfully went to the station bookstall while Sarah and Terry said goodbye . |
| 30 | Terence Trent D'Arby-Neither Fish Nor Flesh ( CBS 1989 ) IT WO N'T do to write D'Arby off as a pathetic Prince impersonator , because his roots are rather different-more Sixties London than Detroit funk . |