Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] off [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones .
2 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 .
3 Florence was moving from one foot to the other as she helped her off with the coat .
4 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 .
5 Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 ‘ At the house — he dropped me off on the way .
10 ‘ We had breakfast and Mummy dropped me off at the playground , ’ Verena told police .
11 Dropped me off at the cross roads and went straight down there to drop off at Newark Road .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 ‘ Thank you for the meal , ’ she said as Fen dropped her off at the end of the towpath .
15 Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys .
16 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 .
17 I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Spotting the two journalists huddled together in conspiratorial conversation a few yards away , he hauled her off in the opposite direction .
21 They ripped it off in the name of God .
22 The tepidity of most British cinema during the 1950s made Anderson resistant to the values of commercial filmmaking , and this cut him off from the possibility of developing his critical argument through filmmaking .
23 Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair .
24 In fact , they whisked me off to the Nanking Workers ' Hospital , where I stayed in ‘ solitary confinement ’ until this afternoon .
25 His wife packed a box with various goodies for Leonora to take to Penry , then walked with them to the jetty , and waved them off on the Sea-Fret , a sturdy fishing-boat a lot newer than Penry 's .
26 She noticed Diana 's uncertainty and , ignoring the other guests who were still buzzing over Diana 's choice of dress , whisked her off to the powder room .
27 His family packed him off to the great University of Nuln where they hoped his energies would be dispersed in academic study .
28 ‘ He kissed me on the cheek and I waved him off at the door and watched TV before going to bed .
29 But since Rayful 's father started him off in the business with a packet of cocaine from New York , prosecutors allege that Mr Edmond has built up a vast business concern , generating sales of up to $2m ( £1.25m ) a week .
30 She fluffed it in rehearsal , but pulled it off for the cameras .
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