Example sentences of "them off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the final days , the occupiers were reported to have rounded up Kuwaiti civilians and carried them off to unknown fates in Iraq . |
| 2 | Sad stories of fathers making fortunes out of their pretty daughters by marrying them off to antiquated old men again and again as their husbands wither and die , leaving them with fortune after fortune . |
| 3 | But , as other African countries have discovered , African insurance companies were too small to carry major risks and had to lay them off with foreign re-insurers . |
| 4 | The Group of 77 , as the developing countries called themselves , had already discovered the capacity of the opposing phalanx of rich , aid-giving industrialised countries either to stonewall their demands for more aid or for preferential trading arrangements , or to fob them off with empty , symbolic gestures . |
| 5 | There 's no point in sending them off on endless — no doubt excellent — courses if there 's no incentive for them to use up large slices of their spare time in teaching the game . |
| 6 | At the moment , when we should be integrating our elderly into community life and reintegrating them into our families , we are sending them off into social exile . |
| 7 | It 's too easy to shrug them off as drippy MOR bores because popularity , ultimately , has its price . |
| 8 | As the technical programmes evolved , they gave rise to commercial activities — such as selling fuel elements and graphite to the civil power stations — and as these matured it became the practice to spin them off as separate entities or to transfer the technology and the responsibility to commercial organisations . |
| 9 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 10 | With abused children the immediate and undisputed need is for protection but , in achieving this , we may cut them off from cherished family and community links , an isolation that may prove damaging . |
| 11 | The English archers poured a deadly hail of arrows into the French troops , and the English men-at-arms finished them off in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 12 | Imagine that we , the human species , released one billion living spores into the Universe , sending them off in random directions . |
| 13 | But the white-and-holy showed them off like prized exhibits , for they liked to make the most of their scanty history . |