Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] off with " in BNC.

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1 WORLD-BEATING Merseyside high jumper Steve Smith leapt into a war of words with chief coach Frank Dick after learning he must jump off with rival Dalton Grant for a place in the British European Cup team .
2 At Newbury this afternoon Richard Dunwoody , left behind with only 20 successes so far by the lightning Scudamore , should kick off with a winner on Atlaal , trained by John Jenkins .
3 Mental-health promotion programmes in the Third World must start off with clear aims before seeking help and advice from Western countries .
4 At present we ourselves consider that any treatment programme , whether homoeopathic or otherwise , should start off with attention to diet .
5 Or are you afraid I 'll make off with the family jewels ? ’
6 Right can we just we 'll finish off with a prayer .
7 But we 'll finish off with erm Adam 's enthusiastic er er new album .
8 Mind you , I suppose you 'll go off with the Italians .
9 If you follow course one , you 'll get off with a caution or three months ’ community work .
10 Lift the top thing off altogether , the top there you are , it 'll come off with it .
11 That 'll come off with my milk .
12 Just thinking what we 'll start off with .
13 So it 'll start off with one , but you remember , we do it across the page .
14 Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening .
15 Erm , so scale , proportion , those are the few , few things brought in together , we 'll st , we 'll start off with just weight , now we 'll find sort of weights of things , and then we 'll make it more and more difficult
16 Later I discovered she 'd arranged for one of her friends to phone and distract me so that she could make off with her booty !
17 and then finally we could finish off with Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men or whatever they want to call themselves from and they could say well we 're the guys in between we 've got clients out there but we have to deal with printers and estimators and this is what life is like for us .
18 She could run off with all the stock !
19 I should think so cos you could run off with the machine .
20 There were also photographs of his weak and charming father , who had read Pravda and the Daily Telegraph every morning , and his beautiful feckless mother , who 'd run off with an Italian and now lived in some palazzo in Rome , and of the huge house in which he 'd been brought up .
21 A Sunday newspaper had once revealed that he 'd wanted to marry a feminist and she 'd run off with a lesbian , which was why he had it in for both .
22 She 'd been involved with fairs and circuses since the age of fourteen , when she 'd run off with a Wall of Death rider on his motorbike .
23 On Tommy Docherty : ‘ I only wish he 'd run off with my wife . ’
24 ‘ When I could n't find you I thought maybe you 'd run off with the professor . ’
25 I was worried that she 'd go off with someone else because she was so pretty and she thought the same about me because I was away from home so much .
26 no , no badly but like I just used to think he was so much more chatty than , we just used to sit there and go alright we 'd get off with each other then we 'd break like , you know like try , you 'd , like the conversation
27 You 'd get off with her would n't ya ?
28 You did , you always said I 'd get off with a cat .
29 Someone 'd get off with you ?
30 But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal .
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