Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 3 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 4 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 5 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 6 | Florence was moving from one foot to the other as she helped her off with the coat . |
| 7 | The miniature St Christopher on it had a brief treat before Sorrel cooled him off in no uncertain terms . |
| 8 | He glanced involuntarily at Jennifer Morgan who said she would make tea , which was what her mother preferred , and bore her off to the kitchen . |
| 9 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |
| 10 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 11 | Detectives also want to trace a driver who is thought to have given 3 men a lift and dropped them off in the Blisworth area on Sunday night . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ At the house — he dropped me off on the way . |
| 14 | ‘ We had breakfast and Mummy dropped me off at the playground , ’ Verena told police . |
| 15 | Dropped me off at the cross roads and went straight down there to drop off at Newark Road . |
| 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 | It set off packed from top to bottom with Sheffield area anglers , fishing rods and maggots and dropped you off on the canal at Clayworth where George lived until he died about ten years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ Thank you for the meal , ’ she said as Fen dropped her off at the end of the towpath . |
| 19 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 20 | He had the bottles placed under his bed , and when the ward sister tried to interfere he fended her off with the crook while he produced medical certificates , all signed by army doctors , stating his need for regular supplies of the stuff . |
| 21 | When a ship shifted position to silence him , Sergeant-Major Haines drove it off with a bren gun ! |
| 22 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His mother put her hands back on the wheel but threw them off with a scream . |
| 25 | However , when he grabbed Richard Baxter 's cloak it came away , and before he could do any more harm a couple of by-standers restrained him and hauled him off to the magistrates . |
| 26 | But as Clyde touched her arm at the elbow , a gesture both proprietorial and questioning , she shook him off with a mouthful of venomous obscenities . |
| 27 | He shook her off with an irritable gesture and turned to the gendarme . |
| 28 | Spotting the two journalists huddled together in conspiratorial conversation a few yards away , he hauled her off in the opposite direction . |
| 29 | For one terrifying moment she thought he was going to subdue her again but she threw him off with a shove . |
| 30 | They ripped it off in the name of God . |