Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] off with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 2 | Alexei 's sword blade swept round in a great circle and Rostov turned it off with one of the best parries of his life . |
| 3 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 4 | Steven threw in lots of baseball , and tinkle-plunk John Williams soundtrack , and finished it off with one enormous Big Hug . |
| 5 | Mark Tollerton started them off with two early goals , then Billy Neill , Jim Joy and Mark Dunwoody settled the affair . |
| 6 | After that whenever he came near she warned him off with bared teeth . |
| 7 | And he came back to er and started again and er he 'd just er er the big manufacturer engineering er people made us lace machines then and they started him off with three , and he 'd paid off one and part of the other when he died . |
| 8 | First , the curt instruction to make a mayonnaise ‘ a la main ’ , though this proved much easier than expected when Eric started us off with three egg yolks and a healthy dollop of strong French mustard ( tip of the year for this amateur chef ) before adding the first drop of oil . |
| 9 | Sister sent them off with one of the Hall nurses and rejoined me . |