Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deemy was on hand next morning at sunrise to see me off aboard one of the transport planes carrying some 40 young pilots en route to Fairbanks . |
| 2 | This is because the ‘ syntax ’ of theory , the logic on which it is based , is at the root of structures which have historically been used to trivialize , marginalize , and devalue the discourse of women , to pass it off at best as a mere fiction , and at worst as an illicit form of language use or one in poor taste , like the pun . |
| 3 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 4 | Wednesday it went very well indeed , yes , I , we made forty four pounds , twenty nine pence on the day and then Betty went to Sawbridgeworth with some cushion covers and managed to sell them off for another five pounds so we got . |
| 5 | Since peasants who still possessed any seed reserves or livestock were excluded from relief , they were compelled to sell them off in some cases in order to survive . |
| 6 | Even if they do , they tend to cordon it off from other feminist issues . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've had to put her off till two o'clock . |
| 8 | As the technical programmes evolved , they gave rise to commercial activities — such as selling fuel elements and graphite to the civil power stations — and as these matured it became the practice to spin them off as separate entities or to transfer the technology and the responsibility to commercial organisations . |
| 9 | Who 's going to start me off on this one ? |
| 10 | I saw the way you had to fight him off in that first dance — the bastard 's hands were everywhere ! ’ |
| 11 | He 'd wanted to send her off to some relative in the country , but she did n't seem to have any family . |
| 12 | We 're gon na need more than twenty five cos we 're also gon na to send it off to one or two major er er certainly Peter and people like that I think . |
| 13 | You do n't want to start anything off like that |
| 14 | I 'm inviting you to consider how far a Christian should go in forgiving and to how far a Christian organisation like this school should go , in showing forgiveness er I just want to kick you off with one or two points on each of those . |
| 15 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 16 | I think it is best to suck it off with one of those tiny battery-powered vacuum cleaners you can get for about a tenner these days , as I did in this case . |
| 17 | The Group of 77 , as the developing countries called themselves , had already discovered the capacity of the opposing phalanx of rich , aid-giving industrialised countries either to stonewall their demands for more aid or for preferential trading arrangements , or to fob them off with empty , symbolic gestures . |
| 18 | It 's too easy to shrug them off as drippy MOR bores because popularity , ultimately , has its price . |
| 19 | I might have been able to pay you off within six months ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ She has some scheme in mind to marry you off to this man Quatt . ’ |
| 21 | Charles planned to marry her off to this man . |
| 22 | They were , however , able successfully to fob him off with various working parties , with joint industry — civil service membership , to look at detailed questions such as the principles of pricing and the possibility of load limiters . |
| 23 | It was impossible to fob her off with vague statements — and perhaps unwise . |
| 24 | Was I going to have it off with this woman and a couple of goats ? |
| 25 | They just happened to move me off into this quieter road . |
| 26 | But , as other African countries have discovered , African insurance companies were too small to carry major risks and had to lay them off with foreign re-insurers . |
| 27 | The first I knew of this was when , seeing his bollard shape through the wrought-iron railings , my old humiliator Holland turned to me and said , placing predictably his malicious emphasis , ‘ There 's your ‘ guardian ’ , Wharton , come to take you off for some wanky-wanky , as usual . ’ |
| 28 | For him to brush it off in such a way — I do n't know what would make him say things like that , he 's the sort of man I just would n't expect to have … |
| 29 | The amazing ‘ Street of Much Music ’ , with it 's abundance of colourful bars and restaurants is only 10–15 metres away , as is the beach where you can take advantage of your free beach mat and cultivate those tans ready to show them off at some of Kos town 's brilliant night-clubs , also 15 minutes away . |
| 30 | It was partly for shame after all the talk and the things that the papers said , but as well as that they wanted to cut him off for good . ’ |