Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She marvelled even more though when Cara 's basic efficiency surfaced as she declared , ‘ By my calculations you 'll still have time to get down to Dover after you 've dropped me off at the airport . ’ |
| 2 | Do you mean we 've let you off for the evening ? |
| 3 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 4 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 5 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 6 | Mary 's offer had been rejected without their thinking twice about it and she and Adam had said goodbye in a cool , offhand sort of way and Rufus had driven her off to the station in Goblander . |
| 7 | She knew it had been hard for her Mother when her Father had shipped her off to the United States to escape the war . |
| 8 | It was clear to me that his own personal preoccupations , such as had been conveyed to me by Father D'Arcy and hinted at by others , had cut him off from the workings of certain institutions — his unawareness of Collingwood 's preferment was a case in point — and again he wanted to be informed what the young were thinking . |
| 9 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 10 | Yes , I have I posted it off during the week to My Weekly , because I thought because the it was about a girl in all trouble , I think it |
| 11 | The grocer , a hard-faced ex-soldier whose right hand lacked a thumb ( Melanie wondered , had he lopped it off on the bacon-slicer ? |
| 12 | ‘ That 's finished me off for the day , that has ! |
| 13 | We could have passed you off as the English rose of our collection , although I trust you have n't the natural frigidity of your British sisters . ’ |
| 14 | The moment Owen had come in , however , he had waylaid him and taken him off behind the potted palms . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think that 's ever put him off in the past , ’ replied Daphne . |
| 16 | She had passed it off at the time , saying , ‘ That 's right , Sarah ! |
| 17 | If I 'd had my hat I 'd have taken it off to the guy . |
| 18 | Then he had sent her off to the lingerie department with the assistant , admonishing her to choose the prettiest undergarments . |
| 19 | Before its publication Goodwin had sent her off to the British Museum to research the old Black Dwarf . |