Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just poked it off the end . |
| 2 | Dobson and his mob just laughed you off the street tonight and we ca n't afford that . ’ |
| 3 | Then a long-shot from behind Sir Rupert Cartland 's shoulder as he forced open the dining-room door , saw the scene of Tick advancing menacingly on his beloved ( or ‘ that silly bitch ’ , as he always called her off the set ) , raised his pistol , cried , ‘ No , you monster ’ and shot the deformed coachman . |
| 4 | Lenka adjusted her fur coat , blew on her hands , opened it up and let rip : the noise nearly blew me off the balcony , a stupendous megalomaniac combination of centuries of Bach fugues and the Incredible Dr Phibes . |
| 5 | Between then , the cheap beer , hospitality and subconscious warnings of the physio almost kept me off the sandstone . |
| 6 | Jock decided to play as the congregation assembled and before the proper organist arrived , but his hesitant , hymnal efforts had a spare , Protestant ring about them and when , in despair , he broke into a decidedly rag-time syncopation with ‘ Wait Till the Sun Shines , Nelly ’ the proper organist , who was a very proper spinster-woman , rose and hurriedly pushed him off the stool before he had got through the chorus . |