Example sentences of "[noun] off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took just six months off with the birth of each of her sons , now 11 and 14 . |
| 2 | In Australia , players have four to five months off in the summer to prepare and they also play far less games . ’ |
| 3 | At the junction of the Pilgrims Road where one way leads to Birling and the other branches off into the woods there stands the remains of the old Free Chapel of St. Lawrence , which gives its name to the lane running by . |
| 4 | ‘ I think we must get that husband of yours to lop a few branches off outside the window before you go blind , ’ he says to Rose , to demonstrate the terms he is on with her . |
| 5 | I was thinking , oh yeah I 'll just chop my legs off at the knee shall I ? |
| 6 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
| 7 | Do I send a sample chapter off to a number of publishers ? |
| 8 | ‘ Clare 's seeing Sam and Josh off for a day on the speedboat . |
| 9 | You get the youngsters that hare off down the road . |
| 10 | The officers took the tot off to the station , gave her breakfast and put out the radio appeal . |
| 11 | ‘ On a 500 you 're really only washing a bit of speed off with the front . |
| 12 | Her friends pushed the boat off down the river and ran across the fields to get round to the bridge . |
| 13 | Instead , a bit of string was used to secure the bridle strap and Fred galloped the horse off to the start . |
| 14 | If you 're worried about electricity bills , turn the monitor off at the end of the day . |
| 15 | Well I 've turned the one in the bedroom off for the moment cos if in the daytime if your mum 's up re resting |
| 16 | So the spin off on the electorate is perhaps well , does it really matter ? |
| 17 | There is another spin off for the estate agent of course |
| 18 | Erm but I do feel that there is likely to be some positive spin off for the factories . |
| 19 | They represent a viable spin off from the THORP project control and instrumentation activities . ’ |
| 20 | BR hopes they 'll drop their kids off on the way to work . |
| 21 | I ca n't think of the name of the other German beer but the roll-on roll-off 'll be out in the dock , cos we had a roll-on roll- off in the dock at all |
| 22 | The golfclub head , large crop , strong breast muscles create these and they taper off to the tail with a harmonious unity . |
| 23 | They were , however , segregated in a separate compartment off to the right and screened by a heavy grille , through which , nevertheless , some of the women contrived to allow themselves to be seen . |
| 24 | Said Graham : ‘ He 'll get the weight off in a couple of weeks because he 's working hard in training and then he 'll be back in the side . ’ |
| 25 | Any diet that takes this weight off in a month or two will probably not be successful in the long term . |
| 26 | Walkman , alarm clock , my winter pyjamas ( too hot , I 'd thrown the duvet off in the middle of the night ) , my wash-'n'-make-up bag , and necessities . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I asked her to slack off on the ginger a bit |
| 29 | In light of the prohibitive estimates received for the fencing off of the play area and the laying of rubber slabs around the sand pit the nursery staff have decided to go ahead with their own restricted plans . |
| 30 | There were ways of treating prisoners properly , and of recognising that they had certain claims upon their captors ; there were also rules about the taking , sharing , and disposing of booty and pillage ; there were signs of formal war , such as the unfurling of banners or the setting off of a cannon at the start of a siege , which informed all those present that a certain legal situation now existed , hostilities having been formally declared . |