Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] off on the " in BNC.

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1 And dad could knock me off on the way to get the papers .
2 The Land Rover dropped me off on the edge of the town , surprisingly on a tarmac road , and I arranged to meet the lads nine miles further on .
3 ‘ At the house — he dropped me off on the way .
4 It set off packed from top to bottom with Sheffield area anglers , fishing rods and maggots and dropped you off on the canal at Clayworth where George lived until he died about ten years ago .
5 It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune .
6 work on the basis of er , we fill up just before we drop you off on the way back
7 I mean she used to toss , toss me off on the old and there 's , there 's and she used to sit on there used , used to sit on there she used to toss me off and I got this fucking as she 's tossing me off she did this love bite .
8 ‘ You can drop us off on the corner if you like , Bill . ’
9 His wife packed a box with various goodies for Leonora to take to Penry , then walked with them to the jetty , and waved them off on the Sea-Fret , a sturdy fishing-boat a lot newer than Penry 's .
10 and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this !
11 There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys .
12 ‘ Good luck , ’ said Sophia , seeing her off on the doorstep .
13 Despite his strange dealings in the transfer market up to now , I 'm still one of the pro-Wilko group , and I 'm not going to start slagging him off on the basis of rumours about what he might conceivably do .
14 He saw me off on the bus .
15 Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down .
16 The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed .
17 The grocer , a hard-faced ex-soldier whose right hand lacked a thumb ( Melanie wondered , had he lopped it off on the bacon-slicer ?
18 As the sub-topics mount up , mark them off on the pattern diagram ( see figure 2 in chapter 4 ) .
19 Tomorrow would be another day , and she would make damned sure that she would get it off on the right footing .
20 I used to rub it off on the way to school .
21 Responsible for giving trainer Grant Eden a broken heel after throwing him off on the gallops , Artistic Reef made up for it with a game neck victory over favourite Palacegate Episode .
22 She can start us off on the aerobics lesson .
23 ‘ I am sure it was my accounts of my experiences which set her off on the same route .
24 The others are still working it off on the tennis court . ’
25 Yes , okay and we 're still coming round yet again and the last one cos she 's got quite a large fist , I 'll take it over the top , round the back and this one now I can tie , tie it off , sorry tie it off on the back of her hand now , I do n't want to tie it off on the front cos in a minute I want to put this into a sling not too tight ?
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