Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why that man said you will not get any more special offers on a Fri Saturday night because they ca n't sell it on a Sunday so you used to see them selling things off on a Saturday five o'clock . |
| 2 | ‘ The seafront area is run-down with too much concrete , the sea defence wall will act as a Berlin Wall cutting people off from the beach and the sea . |
| 3 | Free Range Egg production having taking off in the 80's , seems to have come to a halt , if all that we read and hear is true . |
| 4 | Erm and I see nothing wrong with making decent profits as long as you 're not actually ripping people off as a monopoly . |
| 5 | In April 1938 their eastward advance reached the Mediterranean near Castellón , cutting Catalonia off from the rest of Republican Spain . |
| 6 | Strewing guts about is the same as letting squibs off in a public venue , all comes under Fireworks byelaw . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah , but you 've got ta me , do n't forget we 've got fitted wardrobes , so it 's going by it 's taking space off for the wardrobe . |
| 8 | Jay Hammond had been Ross 's sixth victim : the tennis player , taking time off for a game with a business contact . |
| 9 | Taking time off from the Japan Festival at the Royal Albert Hall , the Sumo wrestlers encouraged even the smallest participants who were raising money for the Spastics society . |
| 10 | Tong , as he is known in Thailand , graduated from the classic Jimmy White academy of excellence and , in taking time off from the classroom and money off mugs , he , like White , enjoyed some memorable moments . |
| 11 | The latter split between what were to become known as ‘ weekend hippies ’ taking time off from the straight world , and those in Miles words , ‘ still trying ’ . |
| 12 | Gedge paid tribute to the postage by firing letters off to every small-time promoter whose address he could find . |
| 13 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |