Example sentences of "[pers pn] off on [art] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | Being inconsiderate to the doctor and other patients will get you off on a bad footing . |
4 | There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys . |
5 | ‘ I am sure it was my accounts of my experiences which set her off on the same route . |
6 | But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell . |
7 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
8 | No wh what I 'm saying is why ca n't we produce the letters off the box let's , can we find out exactly what it would , what , how er if we can find a way of getting this information downloaded onto a disk and then run it off on a straightforward standard letter basis . |
9 | Tomorrow would be another day , and she would make damned sure that she would get it off on the right footing . |
10 | ‘ Deliberately falsified information … to send us off on a wasteful course of negative research . |