Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] off [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't even have to hit them off the ground . |
| 2 | I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall . |
| 3 | Coombes leaned out of the window and shouted ‘ Come on then , this time ’ as if to pull me off the road . |
| 4 | It would have been cheaper to have taken the coach , if longer , but Dr Bailey had sent a curt postcard telling him it would be best for her to meet him off the noon train ; the campus was some way out of town , it would be best that way . |
| 5 | The prize , however , was taken by the Lithuanian who decided to liven up Roger Payne 's ascent of Comes The Dervish by trying to pull him off the crux . |
| 6 | Benny knew they would come to meet her off the bus . |
| 7 | Er and to be able to pick it off the machine at the end of the day you know , as a first class , simple object at , at a competitive price . |
| 8 | probably be yards of material that , and you 've got six chairs so And you 'd have to buy it off the roll , you 're not going to get a piece a length at six yards are you ? |
| 9 | ‘ Doing what I can to help it off the ground . ’ |
| 10 | It 's an antique and that bloke 's an antique dealer , he 's come to nick it off the line and flog it for thousands . |
| 11 | Consequently , they 're always coming in a bit behind the boys because the boys have been playing for a bit longer , and I think it 's very important that if girls are being offered the opportunity that the opportunity is good for them , and that it 's not going to put them off the game of football because they 're always in the position where the boys consider themselves a bit better . |
| 12 | Lord Grubb knew well enough that Algy dreaded her visits , and to let her off the trial of breakfasting with her mother he had installed a complicated route of strings and pulleys that led from her second-storey bedroom to the basement . |
| 13 | But Matthew Blake did not seem prepared to let her off the hook so easily . |
| 14 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 15 | The boy had been told unequivocally not to let her off the lead — the riding-school only used the land by grace of its owner and it was a shooting estate — but he hated keeping the dog straining at the lead and knew that she would always come to his call . |
| 16 | Culley wondered why she 'd decided to let him off the hook . |
| 17 | Well , she was n't going to let him off the hook that easily . |
| 18 | Some people tell us to keep Moby on a tight lead and only walk him in one or two places ; others tell us not to let him off the lead as his bones are n't yet strong enough to take the strain ; some tell us to relax and hope he grows out of it . |
| 19 | When Terry succumbed Safi refused to leave him off the chain at night . |
| 20 | To keep them off the ground ? |
| 21 | ‘ Spatz says he 's going to keep me off the Project . |
| 22 | Successes , failures , blags and scams on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme — purpose-built to keep you off the dole and in your place |
| 23 | If you muck about in the class the lecturers have got every right to send you off the course . |
| 24 | Soon it was raining hard enough , Stephen noted dismally , to keep him off the moor for the evening . |
| 25 | Who would want to run her off the road the way the Audi had done ? |
| 26 | No , he was n't trying to run her off the road ; he was trying to kill her . |
| 27 | At 2200 the casualty refloated herself under her own power , but as the rudder was jammed the lifeboat came in again to secure a towline from the casualty 's bow to keep her off the sand . |
| 28 | He flicked the corner of his cloak at Izzie to clear her off the table — as if to touch her would dirty his hands . |
| 29 | Philip looked at him now holding Caspar with one hand and throwing bits of stick at the dead magpie to knock it off the branch . |
| 30 | Another five seconds and you 'd have had to scrape me off the underside of this thing . ’ |