Example sentences of "[pers pn] off [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shook her off with an irritable gesture and turned to the gendarme . |
| 2 | Ronald Reagan has made a career out of being underestimated and the same mistake was made in 1980 when his critics wrote him off as an amiable , ex-movie actor ill-qualified for the presidency . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Wycliffe came out into the sunshine , blinking ; Emily saw him off like an old friend . |
| 5 | If you 've got rid of a doorway , or turned two rooms into one , round it off with an arch kit which you plaster over ; add stylish fibrous plaster arch mouldings and corbels ; or frame it in wood . |