Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] off the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and to be able to pick it off the machine at the end of the day you know , as a first class , simple object at , at a competitive price . |
| 2 | Consequently , they 're always coming in a bit behind the boys because the boys have been playing for a bit longer , and I think it 's very important that if girls are being offered the opportunity that the opportunity is good for them , and that it 's not going to put them off the game of football because they 're always in the position where the boys consider themselves a bit better . |
| 3 | Lord Grubb knew well enough that Algy dreaded her visits , and to let her off the trial of breakfasting with her mother he had installed a complicated route of strings and pulleys that led from her second-storey bedroom to the basement . |
| 4 | When Terry succumbed Safi refused to leave him off the chain at night . |
| 5 | Soon it was raining hard enough , Stephen noted dismally , to keep him off the moor for the evening . |
| 6 | Another five seconds and you 'd have had to scrape me off the underside of this thing . ’ |
| 7 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 8 | The Minister is naturally anxious to get me off the subject of the ’ Save our Schools ’ campaign , the No Turning Back group and his views on comprehensive education . |
| 9 | I suspect that , if someone now discovered a substance as addictive and harmful as tobacco , even this Government would be highly unlikely to license it to get it off the ground as a marketable product . |
| 10 | Henry Higgs noticed these stones too and how they ‘ used to take them off the windowsill on the way back one by one ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't you dare ! ’ she squealed , trying to push him off the edge of the sun-lounger and into the swimming-pool , which was how the accident yesterday had happened , fooling around by the poolside like a couple of kids when Ruth had slipped on a supposedly non-slip surface and wrenched her ankle . |
| 12 | The duty manager had to drag her off the dance-floor during the cabaret show . |
| 13 | 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 . |