Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afraid that at any moment someone would shout ‘ Grab her ! ’ and drag her off to some unspecified yet ineluctable torment , she forced herself at least to look calm while she sat at the console on the dais . |
| 2 | If Kelly could see her now she 'd throw up her hands in horror and drag her off to the nearest restaurant to order the biggest meal on the menu . |
| 3 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It goes against all common sense to take the most fundamental element of ecosystem , with the land and habitats it supports , and sell it off for profit , as the Tories are trying to do , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It was the Deutsche Bank which bought the great and corrupt Flick empire from the family owners before they could restructure it and sell it off in sections : it was Deutsche as well which , within the space of a few years , succeeded in transforming Daimler-Benz into a huge diversified Konzerne , making it the largest in the country , by successively buying the motor company MTU , the aeronautics firm Dornier , the electronics firm AEG and merging them with Messerschmitt Blohm to give birth to an industrial empire of 400,000 employees and £27 billion turnover . |
| 6 | You sit there in the head man 's office , you wave your hands about , your voice goes up and down , you raise your eyebrows and round it off with a quizzical smile and a subtle twist of the head . |
| 7 | Many people who had never been abroad before were happy to let the tour operator take the strain and send them off on holidays where everything was organized for them . |
| 8 | One way of dealing with these problems is to run off a standard pro-forma , to fill in the blank spaces and send them off to parents . |
| 9 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 10 | I draw in the markings of each Friesian heifer — they 're all unique , you see — and send them off to the breed society , then they 're registered . ’ |
| 11 | This means that using a program like WINFAX , you can combine document and data from a variety of Windows applications — a letter from word processing , a graphic from your paint program , a design from DTP , a graph from the spreadsheet etc and send them off in one FAX . |
| 12 | Fill in the coupon on this page and send it off with the appropriate cheque |
| 13 | To apply for supplementary pension get leaflet SB 1 from the post office , fill in your name and address , sign it and send it off in the pre-paid envelope . |
| 14 | I ai n't got a hankie or nothing so I try and lick it off with my tongue , but I ca n't get all of it . |
| 15 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 16 | For God 's sake go to bed and try and sleep it off before dinner . |
| 17 | sure but again I mean if there was a market for this I am sure that to take that and splinter it off into a unit it costs money to get people that want to come into this business |
| 18 | He was determined to get behind the Russians and cut them off from the east . |
| 19 | McLaren 's conviction that Branson wanted revenge , to find a way to seize control of the Pistols for good , ‘ and cut me off at the pass ’ , now became an obsession . |
| 20 | F er your bodywork was er it was cut off You measured and cut it off with your er at the at the mill , and er , of course , then when it got to the er you cut it You know , when you got it to the er your waggon , you put it in and , of course , then you 'd got to bore all the holes by hand for the bolts to go in , to fit in . |
| 21 | Worst of all , some tiles are inaccessible without forming a bridge with others — think on your toes and pair them off in the right order , or it 's back to the beginning . |
| 22 | If you move quickly you could bag this one — jam it into the specimen bottle and whip it off to the Society for Psychical Research prontissimo ! |
| 23 | Here we 're on two till six and as the old man come and pick her up and drop her off at the bingo . |
| 24 | Well when we come when we co put on the boat they stop and drop me off up Malta . |
| 25 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 26 | If they ca n't you can either stay at the flat or else I 'll give you some money and drop you off at a hotel . ’ |
| 27 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 28 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 29 | A Rhodian , Menodotus , collaborated with another Rhodian to forge a bronze statue of Apollo and pass it off as a work of the early fifth century BC . |
| 30 | So , why not just come quietly over to this cosy coupon in the corner , Fatty-Phil in your details and mail it off to the address at the bottom . |