Example sentences of "off and [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen was full of smoke , servants and Sara 's brothers , who had recently returned from a day 's hunting in the mountains and who were getting in everyone 's way by taking their boots off and leaving them to steam before the flames . |
| 2 | For anyone that has not seen this effect , the lace carriage is set to ‘ F ’ and instead of taking one stitch off and transferring it to the next needle , the carriage ‘ hops ’ the stitch across from the one it is on and hooks it on to the next one . |
| 3 | To me , sexuality is romance and love and poetry and beauty , not picking somebody up on the street and using each other then telling them to fuck off and burning them with a cigarette . |
| 4 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 5 | So , for example , we see the pupils messing around , ‘ to get back at the teachers for telling them off and putting them in detention , ’ or using physical violence after being unjustly accused of a misdemeanour , or being given a ‘ soft ’ teacher . |
| 6 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 7 | They 're trying to pick it off and doing it on the big grass . |
| 8 | ( Constanza has a habit of slipping it off and placing it on the table in front of her . |
| 9 | ‘ It might take a letter a week to get to Germany , might n't it ? ’ said Mrs Fanshawe , taking her rings off and amusing herself by making them flash in the sunlight right into Nurse Rose 's eyes . |
| 10 | I had brave ideas of taking forever off and immersing myself in motherhood but , after 10 months , I could n't wait to get back , ’ she says . |
| 11 | ‘ I was always drifting off and losing myself in my head , which I suppose is no different to anyone else except I carried it further , wrote it all down . ’ |