Example sentences of "[vb past] it off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a ship shifted position to silence him , Sergeant-Major Haines drove it off with a bren gun ! |
| 2 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 3 | They ripped it off in the name of God . |
| 4 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 5 | One of them switched on the light , her finger tips painted with a silvery pearl , and the other switched it off with an animal claw . |
| 6 | She fluffed it in rehearsal , but pulled it off for the cameras . |
| 7 | She was a gentle quiet girl , deeply thoughtful , and we hit it off from the start . |
| 8 | Everyone laughed it off as a typical piece of board-room exaggeration . |
| 9 | He franked it immediately and sent it off with the monkey . |
| 10 | She passed it off as a joke , furious that she had given herself away . |
| 11 | He took a wagonload of the spoiled crop to San Francisco and passed it off as a Peruvian delicacy . |
| 12 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |
| 13 | Bull terrier Bronson had already done battle with two workmen — who fought it off with a shovel — before turning on Questa . |
| 14 | Personally , I will never forget the sight of Yannick Noah , the French Davis Cup captain , leaping almost four feet off the ground to acclaim the first and the seemingly impossible French victory in the Davis Cup since the ‘ Three Musketeers ’ carried it off in the thirties . |
| 15 | Opting for a vast lunch in a pub , he ordered the dish of the day — haggis — then topped it off with a ploughman 's lunch and the landlady 's home-made black bun , much to the amazement of the proprietors . |
| 16 | E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it . |
| 17 | He washed it off in the lavatory . |