Example sentences of "[pron] off [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christmases were wonderful and greatly looked forward to by us both , but they were also tiring , and in early January , when all danger of further jollity from New Year had receded , we took ourselves off for a couple of days . |
| 2 | And he says , sells his off at a quarter of a million , per cube . |
| 3 | Made a vain attempt to tidy up the room , which was already looking like a heavy-metal combat zone , and took himself off for a shower . |
| 4 | In fact , she thought as she splashed cold water on to her hot face , she had n't seen him all morning — perhaps he 'd taken himself off for a walk . |
| 5 | Gabriel had taken himself off under a table . |
| 6 | A MAN passed himself off as a solicitor to get into a prison and beat up a prisoner accused of molesting his daughter , it was revealed today . |
| 7 | We could send them off to a university or something like that so the . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | They never were , and war in 1879 cut their value , many holders selling them off for a pittance . |
| 10 | His mother put her hands back on the wheel but threw them off with a scream . |
| 11 | Elizabeth saw them off with a sense of loss , and heartfelt relief . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | You switch them off with a button code . |
| 14 | But there 's two ways of getting them off if they do latch on to you , one is to burn them off with a cigarette or a match and the other way is to use rock salt , and if you put rock salt on them they then just come off so that 's a little bit erm more humane for the leeches but it depends what you feel about them really as to whether you want to give them another chance . |
| 15 | It was the Richard Branson that would throw anybody in a swimming-pool — literally and metaphorically — often forgetful of the cost , be it of a junior employee 's ruined wristwatch or an editor 's dignity ( the watch could be paid for afterwards : dignity was harder to repair ) ; the Richard Branson that , when playing wicket-keeper in a company cricket match , would tie cotton round the bails and then ‘ when the batsman has been in long enough ’ yank them off with a roar of laughter , all the more resounding for the look of fury on the fallguy 's face . |
| 16 | Nielson does not want to scare them off with a mountain of assorted technology . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then he packed them off on a plane to Islamabad to meet the president . |
| 19 | ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll finish them off in a fortnight , ’ he said , as he celebrated 31st birthday . |
| 21 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile . |
| 22 | Who 'll start me off with a fiver ? ’ |
| 23 | Do you mean that that bloody fool Hector McGillivray fobbed me off with a boat that 's — that 's been- ? ’ |
| 24 | Back inside I felt sick and my stomach gurgled , starting me off on a worry about the absence of toilet facilities . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought you might have written me off as a crackpot after my performance this morning . ’ |
| 26 | Betty had met me at Bellanoch , whisking me off to a venison dinner at her friend 's at Ford . |
| 27 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 28 | The wheelbarrow seemed to want to shake me off like a steer at a rodeo . |
| 29 | I may have the idea that makes me start putting the brush strokes down , but at some point the canvas will take on a life of its own and lead me off in a direction I never expected to go . |
| 30 | The parachute has to be packed into a realistic pack — no self-respecting dropnik could be expected to cast itself off with a bundle of nylon in its arms . |