Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] off for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 2 | I knew my mother would want me to stay and I put it off for months . |
| 3 | Barron 's case is based mainly on these elements : [ 1 ] Immediately after the crash some members of Gravier 's family came from Mexico City to the site to identify his body and rushed it off for cremation . |
| 4 | They had no available extended family : there were Potters scattered about North Yorkshire who had not been seen since Bill 's Congregationalist parents had cast him off for unbelief . |
| 5 | He certainly liked Alix , and after the demo he took her off for lunch in a pub and then for a walk to his room in King 's , where he showed her his pots and his paintings . |
| 6 | turn it off for telephone conversations |
| 7 | If he could weight Newley 's body and roll it into the pond , the ice would seal it off for days ; it might not be found for months , if no one dragged the pond . |
| 8 | He looks so good when he 's going forward like this lays it off for Crosby and clearance is lacked away by Simon Greyson . |
| 9 | The testicle had been dead so they had taken it out and sent it off for tests . |
| 10 | ‘ It goes against all common sense to take the most fundamental element of ecosystem , with the land and habitats it supports , and sell it off for profit , as the Tories are trying to do , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Well you 're not the one who flipping made the driving licence so it should be the person you got it off for fraud . |
| 12 | Been wanting to get them off for hours . |
| 13 | After all , the press have been trying to marry me off for years . ’ |
| 14 | His looks , his temperament , his background — even his name marked him off for ridicule . |
| 15 | She 's been putting him off for years . |