Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If you muck about in the class the lecturers have got every right to send you off the course . |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 7 | ‘ That guy 's going to need a submarine to scrape him off the bottom . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There ai n't no pill to get you off the powder , Mr Breakspear , only will power . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What better way to get it off the ground than by leading an armada of rafts up river , parading before the assembled crowd of onlookers ? |
| 12 | They says , right , he says , I 've got a I 've got a problem with alcohol and he 's given us the valium to get us off the alcohol . |
| 13 | Switchboard was formed in 1974 out of an alliance between the old Gay Liberation Front office collective , who donated the office , and Gay News , who donated the publicity and energy to get it off the ground . |
| 14 | Blanche understood the people who must have put pressure on the commander to take her off the case : MI5 and Urquhart 's boss , Capron . |