Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I , I mean I du n no I mean I just , I just ha , I just had to tell you because I mean it really is pissing me off the way fucking Catherine treats me , she was alright before like and when I 'm on my own , no |
| 2 | And I could never sit through all these interviews , transcribing them off the tape afterwards . |
| 3 | 2 Straighten left leg out behind you , keeping it off the floor . |
| 4 | Its benevolently smiling head fell off and bounced with a sickening crunch from the beam projector into another of the statues , knocking it off the deck of the float and into the canal . |
| 5 | Well I am I am I am quite sure that the person who 's actually if you appointed them treasurer has got the authority to be able to say , there was ten pounds difference , I 'm knocking it off the door and that 's it . |
| 6 | Before he was very , very bored , no challenges for him , nothing to do , erm , this guy 's been at director level , er , trouble-shooting for large abattoirs , going in and sorting problems out , and picking them off the ground , so he 's had loads of challenges , erm , the company 's just so slow for him . |
| 7 | Instead of ordering her off the boat , he was now beginning a more subtle campaign . |
| 8 | A friend 's meeting her off the boat and driving her up . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Why do n't you give that piece of rubbish to Oxfam ? ’ he said , picking it off the mantelpiece roughly . |
| 10 | and it 's cheaper than ordering it off the catalogue . |
| 11 | He swung it down , bouncing it off the counter , and reached into his coat pocket . |
| 12 | More recently Hairy Hands has been reported as wresting steering wheels from drivers ' hands and forcing them off the road , often causing appalling accidents . |
| 13 | In fact I do n't know what made me think he was that way in the first place — unless it was you , of course , leading me off the trail ! |
| 14 | The teddies were shouting , chivvying and bullying them off the pavement on to the road . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | The milky-eyed man was back on his feet , the zeal of his speech fetching him off the ground in little hops and leaps . |
| 18 | The court heard several witnesses say they saw Mr Austin 's car suddenly swerve to the right in the outsidfe lane , then violently to the left and into the front of the bus forcing it off the carriageway . |
| 19 | Having no idea of the detonation mechanism , he mentally called up the shortest route to the deck , while grasping the device and pulling it off the wall . |
| 20 | Lukic was panicking , dealing with Newsome 's backpasses by drilling them off the park headlong into the stands . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | and they ai n't getting it off the Government at the moment . . |
| 24 | ‘ A big thing ; Edwin was largely responsible for getting it off the ground . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Oh yeah , what oh yes , oh without a doubt Joan , er you can do it , you could have the name and you could have who talked to them and , and then I can tell 'em that what , I 've done this you see and that 'd be the end of it it does suggest that you do n't tell them before you tell them after and then you sort of give them the opp the opportunity of me knocking , not recording it you see , wiping it off the tape , because it stunts the conversation . |
| 27 | ‘ My task now is to repay that faith by getting us off the bottom of the league . |
| 28 | Telling the whole truth about the Ayr salmon , rather than letting me off the hook , only improved the tale . |
| 29 | Once the dealer gave his number under these circumstances , he was submitting to the client 's own terms , letting him off the hook . |
| 30 | Why most pop music is rubbish ( he will often play only seconds of a record before ripping it off the turntable ) . |