Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not long ago , my parents were driving home late at night when , for no apparent reason , a car full of men tried to force them off the road . |
| 2 | Well , disappointment for Oxford United ; Charlton were there for the taking , United let them off the hook . |
| 3 | Vernon was arrested for leading an armed attack on the then Branch Davidian leader one George who 'd thrown him off the property . |
| 4 | The German was too heavy for her to drag down the steps , so she reluctantly decided to push him off the catwalk . |
| 5 | It must be nesting , and now my near approach had driven it off the nest . |
| 6 | Had to scrape him off the flag stones with this here spatula . ’ |
| 7 | Before Melissa realised what was happening , he had led her off the path and in among the trees . |
| 8 | ‘ It seems as if I really do need to lie down , ’ she said faintly , and then he had swept her off the ground and was carrying her to one of the low , comfortable sofas in a private alcove where donors who were feeling faint could eat and drink in peace and quiet as they recovered . |
| 9 | Nicola had taken them off the path and into a dense part of the wood . |
| 10 | The Briton would presumably have also been issued with a name-badge but with a British horror of self-advertisement had taken it off the moment he could . |
| 11 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
| 12 | It had been an exhausting day , Blanche reflected in the matter of a second : Christine Mills had unburdened her thoughts , Spittals had ordered her off the case , and now Marek Nowak had chosen that moment to reveal another fragment of the truth . |
| 13 | She told Dexter what had happened in the meeting with Spittals and how he had ordered her off the case , and she asked Dexter to go on helping her . |
| 14 | The duty manager had to drag her off the dance-floor during the cabaret show . |
| 15 | Every time he came home he had to scoop them off the surface . |
| 16 | When Terry succumbed Safi refused to leave him off the chain at night . |