Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [to-vb] off the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat in a chair with a shawl over her shoulders to keep off the draughts . |
| 2 | Children will have great fun choosing which sweets to pick off the house first . |
| 3 | Every burger joint seems to be full of leisure-wear parents waiting for their delinquents to come off the hill and be escorted home . |
| 4 | These enabled his pupils to get off the ground and many began imitating the set of motifs he introduced into his illustrations . |
| 5 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |