Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 2 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 3 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 4 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 5 | The conventional way of cleaning fabrics is to cart them off to the washing machine , wash them , dry them , and cart them back again . |
| 6 | Whoever killed Kemp had time : time to cart him off to the river , ant dump him there — gently , Lewis — without even a splash to startle the cygnets … ’ |
| 7 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 8 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 9 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 10 | Nowhere near enough , they 're trying to get us to sell it off by the back door and we will resist that . |
| 11 | So even University was n't completely on one side , and again the City was erm there was this sort of Puritan element that did n't like the King 's religious policies , erm there was this general feeling against the University which tended to put them off to the other side , but there are undoubtedly loyal citizens erm citizens loyal to the King . |
| 12 | If some local traveller wanted to sleep it off in the Rectory , who was she to say he should not . |
| 13 | to switch me off at the flat . |
| 14 | The Goblins wait until the enemy are close by , and then push the Fanatic out towards the foe , giving him a good shove to start him off in the right direction . |
| 15 | He 's gon na give it into Mericlean and Mericlean , just said we 'll have to send it off to the tax office to get your tax code changed . |
| 16 | There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys . |
| 17 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 18 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 19 | ‘ The planes used to drop them off over the marshes . ’ |
| 20 | I told Jean-Claude to drop me off at the Place St Michel . |
| 21 | ‘ I want you to drop me off at the nearest hotel , ’ she told him in a strained voice . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I asked her to drop me off at the nearby Woodcutters Club . |
| 23 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |
| 24 | It is mildly blasphemous , too , to be sent into this breathing world with trillions and trillions of brain-cells , all anxious to fire and to titillate , and to shutter them off against the more vigorous half of human thought . |
| 25 | And what makes you think I choose Pickerage to toss me off in the bogs ? ’ |
| 26 | Mr Tate advises prospective purchasers to produce a written list of requirements , and to check them off against the package one by one . |
| 27 | As I have to come back to the airport to pick up a member of tonight 's convention it will be easy to drop you off at the same time . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm just going to drop her off at the hall . |
| 29 | It was rather a coincidence that she was wearing a dark blue guernsey exactly like Laura 's , with a neck which necessitated the same blindfold struggle to get it off About the whole incident Richard felt no dissatisfaction and certainly no regret . |
| 30 | I used to rub it off on the way to school . |