Example sentences of "[vb past] them off [prep] [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 | But the white-and-holy showed them off like prized exhibits , for they liked to make the most of their scanty history . |
| 3 | The English archers poured a deadly hail of arrows into the French troops , and the English men-at-arms finished them off in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 4 | Mark Tollerton started them off with two early goals , then Billy Neill , Jim Joy and Mark Dunwoody settled the affair . |
| 5 | Sister sent them off with one of the Hall nurses and rejoined me . |
| 6 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 7 | During the final days , the occupiers were reported to have rounded up Kuwaiti civilians and carried them off to unknown fates in Iraq . |