Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The steersman showed them off the boat . |
| 2 | Were it not for the narrow strip of tar , I would have been stuck hopelessly — several times I was bogged down when the wind blew me off the road . |
| 3 | ‘ Jess offered Diana a hug and the Princess lifted her off the ground , ’ said her proud mum Pam , 32 , from Florida . |
| 4 | Not a true beauty , but the girl beckoned you off the paper ; confident , sexy , that face invited you to join in if you could stand the pace . |
| 5 | But 78 players were unable to finish their rounds as torrential rain drove them off the course . |
| 6 | ‘ Sorry , son , ’ he murmured , and then the crew lifted him off the table , pillows and all , and strapped him into the ambulance . |
| 7 | The seas smashed into his back , wind and water clubbed him off the seat on to the cockpit sole . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The same American report into male sexuality that revealed which stimuli men found most ‘ exciting ’ also reported that the following turned them off the most : |
| 11 | Bus conductor , , tickets please , tick what 's a matter , mate ? well you know and the man threw me off the train and listen , he goes come on gov , give me the letter I 'll read it . |
| 12 | the man threw me off the bus and he goes all right then , let me read it . |
| 13 | Here a right turn took him off the coastal road on to what was little more than a smoothly macadamed track bordered by water-filled ditches and fringed by a golden haze of reeds , their lumbered heads straining in the wind . |
| 14 | An Italian helicopter plucked him off the mountain . |
| 15 | Finally he grabbed him by the collar , and with a spasmodic effort tipped him off the wharf into the canal . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The family got him off the hook , of course , but it did n't go down well . |
| 18 | The Diesis colt had only two runs last season and on his final outing at York in July he was fourth to Golden Chip after which injury kept him off the course . |