Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of ordering her off the boat , he was now beginning a more subtle campaign . |
| 2 | ‘ If you 'd done your legal duty , my lad , we would n't have had to go through the bother of pulling you off the street , ’ said Malpass with a sickly smile . |
| 3 | either erm because redundancies are coming up , or Imperial trustees down , they were just got ridden of as a way of moving them off the trust . |
| 4 | either erm because redundancies are coming or as Imperial Trustees found , they were just got ridden of as a way of moving them off the trust . |
| 5 | Erm , it was not possible to get your views in , as it were , personnel terms rather than financial terms on that er report , but er as it were on your behalf , we supported the Treasurer 's er recommendation for reasons set out in paragraph one four , and if I can er explain that for you a little little more , de-regulation could mean , that each employing authority has it 's own scheme of superannuation , or not , and if not would simply leave employees in a position of taking them off the state scheme S E R P S or going for a personal pension . |
| 6 | And erm my used to tell me about er when they were serving their time , all the apprentices used to clump their work on a Monday afternoon to go to the panopticon And at that particular time , they had turns on and if they did n't like them they pelted them with tomatoes and oranges and they had a big hook for for pulling them off the stage . |
| 7 | ‘ A big thing ; Edwin was largely responsible for getting it off the ground . |
| 8 | Why most pop music is rubbish ( he will often play only seconds of a record before ripping it off the turntable ) . |
| 9 | But these considerations did not stop Ortho-Cilag , the manufacturer of another anti-arthritic drug , Zomax , from taking it off the market last week after only five reported deaths in US and three in the UK . |
| 10 | Fishing in deep water Stephano had a powerful run on his mackerel bait and fought a shark for over three quarters of an hour without moving it off the bottom . |
| 11 | This must be at one end of the housing , clear of the other compartments , and then you will be able to slide the glass off this compartment without sliding it off the others . |
| 12 | ‘ My task now is to repay that faith by getting us off the bottom of the league . |
| 13 | Lukic was panicking , dealing with Newsome 's backpasses by drilling them off the park headlong into the stands . |
| 14 | Characters , drawings , etc , that can be transferred to the artwork by rubbing them off the back of the transfer sheet . |
| 15 | A turntable helps food to cook evenly by raising it off the oven floor so the microwaves can reach underneath , and by turning the food as it cooks . |
| 16 | Remove as much as possible by scraping it off the glass and syphoning it out . |