Example sentences of "[verb] them off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 2 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 3 | The mathematics were simple : £10,000 would enable them to fatten up their piglets , sell them off in the autumn , clear their overdraft and continue preserving all the surviving Old Spot bloodlines . |
| 4 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 7 | I draw in the markings of each Friesian heifer — they 're all unique , you see — and send them off to the breed society , then they 're registered . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If you 're a bit large on the hips , top them off with a loose T-shirt . |
| 10 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 11 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 12 | The conventional way of cleaning fabrics is to cart them off to the washing machine , wash them , dry them , and cart them back again . |
| 13 | Each ship is built for the coronation of the ruler and on his or her death bears them off to the Isle of the Dead to rest at last with the ancient rulers of Ulthuan . |
| 14 | ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed . |
| 15 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 16 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |
| 17 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 18 | Detectives also want to trace a driver who is thought to have given 3 men a lift and dropped them off in the Blisworth area on Sunday night . |
| 19 | In Tanzania the Asians suffered attrition in stages as the combined effects of the Arusha Declaration and the nationalization of both private houses and wholesale trade ‘ cut them off at the knees ’ as Nyerere expressed it . |
| 20 | Cut them off at the base with a razor blade or craft knife . |
| 21 | Bruce 's far lighter cavalry cut them off in a flanking movement . |
| 22 | The mist cut them off from the rest of the field . |
| 23 | He was determined to get behind the Russians and cut them off from the east . |
| 24 | Early on the morning of the evacuation the families were preparing to embark when , in full sight of the military escort , gunmen surrounded the plane , forced the 11 men into a truck at gunpoint , and drove them off into the bush . |
| 25 | ‘ We 'll finish them off in a fortnight , ’ he said , as he celebrated 31st birthday . |
| 26 | Worst of all , some tiles are inaccessible without forming a bridge with others — think on your toes and pair them off in the right order , or it 's back to the beginning . |
| 27 | I could have done a little the papers let them off of the hook for years ! |
| 28 | I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office . |
| 29 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 30 | We could send them off to a university or something like that so the . |