Example sentences of "carry [pers pn] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't start that nonsense again or they 'll carry you off to the funny farm , ’ Otley said wearily . |
| 2 | You want the lord of the manor to come and carry you off as his long lost daughter , is that it ? ’ |
| 3 | He seemed to think he could carry her off like this , and get away with it . |
| 4 | But if she let fitzAlan carry her off and marry her she would be completely powerless against a man who despised her . |
| 5 | Will she carry it off ? |
| 6 | ‘ Jazz exploded in London in the mid-Eighties , but only a handful of people got a deal out of it , ’ says Geoff , who got into hip hop via rare groove and whose CV includes organising CND and Artists Against Apartheid benefits , putting on jazz rap weekends to try and prove bands could carry it off live as well as on record , DJing at Camden 's Jazz Cafe and , until recently , booking the bands there too . |
| 7 | But I was n't at all sure I could carry it off . |
| 8 | for the daughter , she 's and she can nae carry it off , and whether she |
| 9 | I 'm under threat of death from Bob and Tony if I do n't carry it off . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I hope I can carry it off , ’ Loretta said anxiously . |
| 11 | should n't we use , try every effort to try and carry it off , perhaps that 's one that Jehovah 's looked at and said well there 's an area that they need to learn about , that need to understand a little more , they know nothing about that particular area , in the scriptures , now that 's a good one for them to have , we 'll make sure they get that , that way they 're going to learn , so if ever we always get the easy ones , the ones we know , the ones we 've done before , we think I can handle this , you never learn anything do we ? |