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Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	United almost contributed to their own downfall , but Blackpool 's finsihing let them off the hook .
2	The steersman showed them off the boat .
3	Were it not for the narrow strip of tar , I would have been stuck hopelessly — several times I was bogged down when the wind blew me off the road .
4	Massingberd-Mundy , a 62-year-old former Royal Navy submarine commander of South Ormsby Hall , Louth , was attempting to quash a decision by the Club to strike him off the list of potential chairmen of the stewards ' panel at Doncaster racecourse .
5	‘ Jess offered Diana a hug and the Princess lifted her off the ground , ’ said her proud mum Pam , 32 , from Florida .
6	Not a true beauty , but the girl beckoned you off the paper ; confident , sexy , that face invited you to join in if you could stand the pace .
7	At 2200 the casualty refloated herself under her own power , but as the rudder was jammed the lifeboat came in again to secure a towline from the casualty 's bow to keep her off the sand .
8	The yellow shirt orders me off the bed and tears through the sheets .
9	But 78 players were unable to finish their rounds as torrential rain drove them off the course .
10	If you muck about in the class the lecturers have got every right to send you off the course .
11	Did n't you ever think it might be a shabby move lifting it off the album — a lot of people have mentioned this to me .
12	‘ Sorry , son , ’ he murmured , and then the crew lifted him off the table , pillows and all , and strapped him into the ambulance .
13	The seas smashed into his back , wind and water clubbed him off the seat on to the cockpit sole .
14	The butcher chases them off the rock with kicks and abusive shouts , as though punishing them for bad behaviour .
15	‘ Good thing it 's Curtius , ’ Magda said , ‘ if'n he blows his brains out , at least we wo n't be all day scraping them off the floor .
16	Tell me something ; were you always prepared to sleep with me to get the jade , or was that a ploy to throw me off the scent when I was getting too close ? ’
17	An overwhelming number of you are keen to attend formal reunions and so I will make it a priority to get them off the ground .
18	And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table .
19	‘ That guy 's going to need a submarine to scrape him off the bottom . ’
20	Not today , however , and now my route took me off the road by a stile and up over the hill by an old quarry track .
21	I thought the hand-cranking on the ‘ 109 a bit dodgy , till an impatient Navy pilot threw me off the wing of a Harvard into the prop , miraculously only tearing my jacket and grazing my arm , putting me in dock for a couple of days .
22	Bus conductor , , tickets please , tick what 's a matter , mate ? well you know and the man threw me off the train and listen , he goes come on gov , give me the letter I 'll read it .
23	the man threw me off the bus and he goes all right then , let me read it .
24	Philip looked at him now holding Caspar with one hand and throwing bits of stick at the dead magpie to knock it off the branch .
25	There ai n't no pill to get you off the powder , Mr Breakspear , only will power .
26	An Italian helicopter plucked him off the mountain .
27	The court heard several witnesses say they saw Mr Austin 's car suddenly swerve to the right in the outsidfe lane , then violently to the left and into the front of the bus forcing it off the carriageway .
28	Finally he grabbed him by the collar , and with a spasmodic effort tipped him off the wharf into the canal .
29	I learned about trailer driving the hard way during a competition retrieve , when an enthusiastic crew member took us off the road with an Eagle two-seater in the trailer .
30	At the moment , we 've got , Devon County Council 's Recycling Working Party who are very likely to be paying our site 's rental charges , for at least the first year to get us off the ground .