Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] off [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Fill in the coupon on this page and send it off with the appropriate cheque |
| 5 | The purchaser would take his own blood sample , send it off to the laboratory , and await the results by post . |
| 6 | To apply for supplementary pension get leaflet SB 1 from the post office , fill in your name and address , sign it and send it off in the pre-paid envelope . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cut them off at the base with a razor blade or craft knife . |
| 9 | The mist cut them off from the rest of the field . |
| 10 | He was determined to get behind the Russians and cut them off from the east . |
| 11 | McLaren 's conviction that Branson wanted revenge , to find a way to seize control of the Pistols for good , ‘ and cut me off at the pass ’ , now became an obsession . |
| 12 | Another thing that cut me off from the other kids was going to the grammar school — and having to wear a bright green blazer every day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I could have done a little the papers let them off of the hook for years ! |
| 15 | I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office . |
| 16 | I 'm terribly lazy and always put it off until the last minute . ’ |
| 17 | But I finish them off in the er in it . |
| 18 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 19 | It was fucking gobble you off in the kitchen with me parents upstairs and stuff like that . |
| 20 | work on the basis of er , we fill up just before we drop you off on the way back |
| 21 | Here we 're on two till six and as the old man come and pick her up and drop her off at the bingo . |
| 22 | Whereas I mean , , if you sort of give the criticism first and say the wrong area is that , and then finish it off with the praise , they know where they stand , and when you come up to them and say you 've done a superb job , they 're not just sitting back , thinking oh yes , what 's coming next . |
| 23 | finish it off in the shoot off . |
| 24 | If you move quickly you could bag this one — jam it into the specimen bottle and whip it off to the Society for Psychical Research prontissimo ! |
| 25 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 26 | And get them off of the streets . |
| 27 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 28 | Get him off to the rugby match or something . ’ |
| 29 | So , why not just come quietly over to this cosy coupon in the corner , Fatty-Phil in your details and mail it off to the address at the bottom . |
| 30 | Cassie , get it off of the radio ! |