Example sentences of "off it and " in BNC.

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1 At the half-way point , Gosselin attacked with a poor hip throw , Hughes nimbly stepped off it and managed a pick-up for yuko ( five points ) .
2 She leapt down , carefully shook the sand off it and handed it back to Simon as he and Ben ran across the last few yards towards her .
3 Ali Ross , a small feisty Scotsman , promises to get you off it and onto the steeper slopes beyond .
4 She went slowly to the refrigerator , took out a block of ice cream , cut three slices off it and put them into glass dishes , then plonked the dishes on the table , during which time a new idea came to her .
5 When the bus got caught in traffic they dashed off it and ran through a nearby Russell and Bromley shoe store .
6 Show them that I 'm willing to come off it and hopefully they 'll bail me out .
7 So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … .
8 Adam picked her up in his arms and laid her on her desk : reports slithered off it and the Cartier clock crashed to the floor .
9 You make a thing as is gon na do the job and it 's no problem then to get castings off it and all that sort of thing .
10 Well we read about prayer and we know about its power but you know we often do n't avail ourselves off it and yet it 's plainly written .
11 Five or six mahogany doors opened off it and there was another flight of stairs .
12 The time you have to carry this out naturally depends upon the actual load you put on the batteries , that is , how much gear you have hanging off it and the total power consumption of this hardware .
13 When they were n't running across it , cheered on by the headmaster , they were snipping bits off it and bringing them back to school to put in jars .
14 I have actually used water that 's come off it and I 've also had er sheds with plants growing underneath and I ca n't honestly remember , I mean I have obviously not used it on really sensitive plants like tomatoes which I think would show signs of stress .
15 Why not , my wife says , knock a hole through the boys ' bedroom wall , pinch a three foot six strip off it and make a new landing passage and extend the walk-in cupboard , forward to take up the old landing and sideways to build a space out to the main part of the stairs .
16 I know what kind of an ordeal you 've had tonight , and , although I might have been willing to tease you before to take your mind off it and give you something else to think about , I do n't intend to ravish you to complete the treatment ! ’
17 The stolen car collided with the land rover , bounced off it and then hit another police car .
18 In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible .
19 Go and let's get , tell Annette to put the bloody telephone on the thing or to get off it and
20 Plug it in in the what 's name , pull lead off it and plug it in and then it 'll
21 I said we 'd better go home and check and so we drove down to and as I got there , so the bus comes up , so it looked pretty but I thought well I 'd better check so I followed it back up and nobody got off it and
22 I stood in kitchen and I smothered this slice of toast and butter were just literally running off it and it were
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