Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] off with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Florence was moving from one foot to the other as she helped her off with the coat . |
| 2 | Fill in the coupon on this page and send it off with the appropriate cheque |
| 3 | He had the bottles placed under his bed , and when the ward sister tried to interfere he fended her off with the crook while he produced medical certificates , all signed by army doctors , stating his need for regular supplies of the stuff . |
| 4 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 5 | Whereas I mean , , if you sort of give the criticism first and say the wrong area is that , and then finish it off with the praise , they know where they stand , and when you come up to them and say you 've done a superb job , they 're not just sitting back , thinking oh yes , what 's coming next . |
| 6 | You do n't have to fight your way into a plastic-wrapped leg of hairy chicken , while you 're hurtled through space at the mercy of some suburban pilot with piles who thinks only of his duty frees and having it off with the stewardess . |
| 7 | They 'll be fobbing us off with the flowers and the chocolates . |
| 8 | He franked it immediately and sent it off with the monkey . |
| 9 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 10 | Dexter believed Jane Pargeter was more interested in David Parkin 's affair than she pretended : you ca n't be someone 's lover for three years and then cast them off with the same indifference as an old pair of socks . |
| 11 | ’ And if you do n't bring anything off-planet , I 'll let you off with the minimum . ’ |
| 12 | We 'll let you off with the newsletter . |
| 13 | It would not be past Zhukov 's greed and cunning to try and fob him off with the wrong pie e of film . |
| 14 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 15 | She let him help her off with the mackintosh , hang it in the cupboard in the hall . |