Example sentences of "[noun pl] off [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | I was thinking , oh yeah I 'll just chop my legs off at the knee shall I ? |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | BR hopes they 'll drop their kids off on the way to work . |
| 7 | I was gon na say they 're having the rest of their lives off by the sound of it ! |
| 8 | Some bloke you never meet jacks off with a copy of Penthouse and then they pump his come up you with a syringe ? |
| 9 | The ragged mountains off in the distance were dark and mysterious , the equally ragged coastline full of secrets . |
| 10 | At the adjacent table , a loud , powdered woman in a cyclamen hat slipped her shoes off under the table . |
| 11 | Then the machine bombards the molecule with a beam of fast atoms , which knocks a stream of charged ions off from the molecule . |
| 12 | The Dwarfs were hard pressed at first , but eventually saw the Orcs off with the help of their formidable cannons . |
| 13 | You may well smirk , but I think we should all be taking our hats off to the man . |
| 14 | And we had er two hours off during the day , er and twenty minutes for dinner and er about twenty minutes for tea . |
| 15 | Bernard remembers Changi Jail as being a very austere place where a 24-hour guard duty would involve four hours on and four hours off at a time . |
| 16 | You can see him pull the veins off on the way , hey ? |
| 17 | We only probably have to take seven standard colours off in the end . |
| 18 | ‘ Fat lot of good that is , ’ he observed , ‘ if they 've chewed your balls off in the meantime . ’ |
| 19 | Ian Branfoot 's side had collected 73 bookings and six sendings off before the match . |
| 20 | ‘ The sendings off near the end and letting in two goals spoiled things a bit . |
| 21 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 22 | MARILLION singer Steve Hogarth was left red-faced when a fan tried to rip his trousers off during a sell-out show . |
| 23 | In desperation , Ari started marking the days off on a chart , just so she could see the rime they had left on the road diminishing . |
| 24 | The girls will get just two days off during the run . |
| 25 | I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office . |
| 26 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |
| 27 | Mansell , having three days off before a test session at Monza , told me : ‘ I think a decision will be made inside the next 72 hours . |
| 28 | In the mood of schoolboys off on an expedition to plant stinkbombs on speechday , the party set off from Westminster Pier , shadowed by two police launches . |
| 29 | There will be sweet moments for all of us , but they will be swamped by the sour … and we 'll all be happy , in our own peculiar way , saving up for a sunny day two or three years off in the future . |
| 30 | The night patrol was meant to come and turn the lights off at a quarter to ten , but sometimes they would n't turn up until eleven or half eleven . |