Example sentences of "he off [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark whenever you start drag him off into the cupboard |
| 2 | " But I mind , I mind very much ! " he snapped , and walked with quick , short steps back to Fernando , taking his arm and leading him off into the crowd . |
| 3 | Get him off to the rugby match or something . ’ |
| 4 | TV aerials : one of the drama groups did a sketch about James Logie Baird who invented the television , and the man who lodged in the room next door to him kept on seeing pictures flashing on his wall and they dragged him off to the lunatic asylum 'cos they thought he was seeing things , hallucinating . |
| 5 | Whoever killed Kemp had time : time to cart him off to the river , ant dump him there — gently , Lewis — without even a splash to startle the cygnets … ’ |
| 6 | The house , nevertheless , had visitors interesting to the children ; a couple of famous Congregationalist laymen Frank Salter and Bernard Manning , both of whom were historians and riotous rompers with children ; the Reddaway children who lived next door ; the daughters of G. G. Coulton the English hammer of Popes ; and the friendship between the two sets of children caused Coulton to take an interest in Michael and carry him off to the village church at Coton to see medieval graffiti . |
| 7 | Afterwards a rickshaw driver hauls him off to the City of Joy , a vast area of slums where the matronly Joan Bethel ( Pauline Collins ) runs a school . |
| 8 | Some woman turned up on his doorstep and simply swept him off to the county cricket ground in Taunton in her car . ’ |
| 9 | I had more or less written him off for the season . ’ |
| 10 | Soon it was time for him to return and it was arranged that Anne and Sarah who were both free would see him off at the station . |
| 11 | ‘ He kissed me on the cheek and I waved him off at the door and watched TV before going to bed . |
| 12 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 13 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 14 | Despite his strange dealings in the transfer market up to now , I 'm still one of the pro-Wilko group , and I 'm not going to start slagging him off on the basis of rumours about what he might conceivably do . |
| 15 | If he became excitable , I advised they gently apply the brake on the lead and calm Moby down with quiet words and perhaps a short ‘ sit ’ , before leading him off toward the dog or person again , allowing Moby to become used to their presence . |
| 16 | Ian , 27 , broke his wrist when his Honda CBR 600 spat him off over the high-side during a race . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think that 's ever put him off in the past , ’ replied Daphne . |
| 18 | But since Rayful 's father started him off in the business with a packet of cocaine from New York , prosecutors allege that Mr Edmond has built up a vast business concern , generating sales of up to $2m ( £1.25m ) a week . |
| 19 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 20 | The tepidity of most British cinema during the 1950s made Anderson resistant to the values of commercial filmmaking , and this cut him off from the possibility of developing his critical argument through filmmaking . |
| 21 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 22 | He glanced right and saw another half-dozen Dragoons racing to cut him off from the cart track . |
| 23 | But did it cut him off from the guidance he needed ? |