Example sentences of "[pers pn] off [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaily selected the tools and took them off down the path to the back-gate . |
| 2 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 3 | The band trundled back to their hotel — the infamous Chelsea Hotel — to get their best party rags on and were halfway through their quick-change when the NY police burst into their room and hauled them off to the station . |
| 4 | had to keep dragging them off to the toilet , they 'd never seen blind children you see they 'd all seen adults |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | To get into this trade , the Company was reorganized in 1663 and added buying slaves and shipping them off to the sugar islands to its original objectives . |
| 7 | The conventional way of cleaning fabrics is to cart them off to the washing machine , wash them , dry them , and cart them back again . |
| 8 | The pressure became too much as sponsors , fly-by-nights and average New Zealanders sent them off to the World Cup with the message that all New Zealand expected them to win . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Indeed , Mr Pocklington and his ilk would take small cannon onto a suitable lake and fire them off for the edification of the plumber partridges who came to nest in the district . |
| 11 | As the sub-topics mount up , mark them off on the pattern diagram ( see figure 2 in chapter 4 ) . |
| 12 | We saw them off at the airfield , we being Sogono and myself . |
| 13 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |
| 14 | Cut them off at the base with a razor blade or craft knife . |
| 15 | I could have done a little the papers let them off of the hook for years ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ( I prefer to gently lever them off from the underside with a small screwdriver ) . |
| 18 | The mist cut them off from the rest of the field . |
| 19 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was determined to get behind the Russians and cut them off from the east . |
| 22 | Dexter counted them off by the hand of his watch . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Mr Tate advises prospective purchasers to produce a written list of requirements , and to check them off against the package one by one . |
| 25 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 26 | ‘ At the house — he dropped me off on the way . |
| 27 | And dad could knock me off on the way to get the papers . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He saw me off on the bus . |
| 30 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |