Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] off the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Sunday in June found us off the entrance to Chichester harbour , close to where the Caducius sank . |
| 2 | ‘ We played them off the park for the first 25 minutes of the second half . ’ |
| 3 | the goal of the week … has to be the United winner against Stoke … it lifted them off the bottom of the table … |
| 4 | The Swiss played us off the field in both our European ties a year ago , yet we managed to take three points from them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And what would you have done if Schemichal got hold of you and threw you off the pitch like last night ? |
| 7 | Hibs face a real test of character at Firhill tomorrow after Hearts knocked them off the top of the table . |
| 8 | Gallacher continued to argue with the referee throughout the game and followed him off the pitch at the end wagging his finger in the official 's face . |
| 9 | Finally he grabbed him by the collar , and with a spasmodic effort tipped him off the wharf into the canal . |
| 10 | That afternoon the wheelbarrow even stuck when I pulled it off the road for a break . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They kept it off the market for a year . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ A couple of weeks later they dragged him off the ice in North Harbour . ‘ |
| 15 | It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered . |
| 16 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |