Example sentences of "have [verb] off [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And says if he 'd been given his own psychiatric nurse … he would never have jumped off the train . |
| 2 | If this goes in easily by more than a few millimetres , rot is probably present , and you 'll have to strip off the paint so you can repair it . |
| 3 | Your baby must have frightened off the intruder . |
| 4 | If last night had n't happened , would she still have flown off the handle , sooner or later … ? |
| 5 | I guess they may have fallen off a lorry ? |
| 6 | Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood . |
| 7 | Er , that could have fallen off a car cos it was a big piece and there was n't anywhe anywhere else . |
| 8 | The village of St Anton could have fallen off a picture post card : it 's that pretty ! |
| 9 | Pam Tatlow believes she too has nursed the constituency , but she 'll have to pull off the shock of the night to win . |
| 10 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
| 11 | It read , ‘ LNWR-BOILERHOUSE-PRIVATE ’ , and must have come off the boilerhouse door . |
| 12 | Must have come off the shepherd 's wellies , sir . |
| 13 | Werewolf 's , with a quick press , could have come off the peg at any Army and Navy store . |
| 14 | The patiently plodding policeman : he should never have come off the beat . |
| 15 | Would it have came off a cold or something ? |
| 16 | Johnny Argie would n't have seen off the task force so bloody buggering easy if the old ‘ evenin' all ’ had been on the South Atlantic beat . |
| 17 | Monod , by his collaboration with Coque , at least left a name in the automotive industry , but who today ever gives a thought to Le Chassis , without whose basic contribution to the theory of tetracyclic separation that industry would never have got off the ground ? |
| 18 | The government in London was kept well informed of what was happening and the rebellion might never have got off the ground but for the effects of the Act of Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland , which came into effect on 1 May 1707 . |
| 19 | In the circumstances , a construction of fabric over a wire-braced framework of wood or bamboo was logical and efficient , and sometimes , nothing else would have got off the ground with the power available . |
| 20 | But there can not be an infinite series of causes stretching back endlessly ; for in that case , no matter how far back we were to look , we should never find a beginning of the whole process , and that in turn would make it quite impossible to understand how it could ever have got off the ground , let alone reached its present state . |
| 21 | This lists all the files as well as the subdirectories , and the sheer volume of information guarantees that the files you want to see will have scrolled off the top of your screen before you can read them . |
| 22 | The report says they should have called off the operation once the element of surprise was lost . |
| 23 | Gypsy women were chaste before wedlock and Chilcott might have called off the arrangement if he heard of such liberties being taken . |
| 24 | Would someone soon say they 'd have to switch off the respirator ? |
| 25 | You 'll have to switch off the engines . ’ |
| 26 | The bag must have slipped off the jeep when I parked it . ’ |
| 27 | Do you have to send off a deposit or anything ? |
| 28 | And er I 'll have to knock off a minute . |
| 29 | As soon as the plane had hit any turbulence , the springs would have popped off the arm that held them and the two buckets would have automatically deployed . |
| 30 | ‘ You should have whipped off the trousers and said the jacket was a mini-dress , ’ said literary agent Felicity Bryan , who remembers doing just that at the Tory Carlton Club 20 years ago . |