Example sentences of "[pron] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm as I say , they did er , the people did but you never got nothing off the government for it and er , I 've always said it , he must have been a much better man than I thought he was because er , er , to go as I say from what it was in those days to start his own business and that . |
| 2 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 3 | They are taken and inserted ( ‘ struck ’ ) in the same way as softwood cuttings , although many gardeners remove whole sideshoots , pulling them off the main stem with a short portion of bard ( a ‘ heel ’ ) to aid rooting ; neatly trim any ragged edges on the heel , and pinch out the tips of naturally bushy subjects . |
| 4 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 5 | Sitting in the lotus position they jumped into the air using their thighs to propel them off the ground . |
| 6 | They were quickly spotted by a police patrol who ushered them off the motorway and down the A41 slip road . |
| 7 | Henry Higgs noticed these stones too and how they ‘ used to take them off the windowsill on the way back one by one ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ You can take them off the instant you do n't need them for reading . ’ |
| 9 | The butcher chases them off the rock with kicks and abusive shouts , as though punishing them for bad behaviour . |
| 10 | ‘ It gets them off the hook , ’ explains one psychotherapist . |
| 11 | ‘ I know that if someone is sent up to Leeds to interview them , the band will meet them off the train at the right time . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh you have n't taken them off the tree ? ’ |
| 13 | Home striker Paul Crimmen let them off the hook on a number of occasions and Horsham had two goals disallowed . |
| 14 | I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him . |
| 15 | The same American report into male sexuality that revealed which stimuli men found most ‘ exciting ’ also reported that the following turned them off the most : |
| 16 | Every time he came home he had to scoop them off the surface . |
| 17 | On many spring driven reverbs , when you switch them off the reverb signal dies immediately . |
| 18 | He stripped them off the mattress and carried Willie down to the living room . |
| 19 | More recently Hairy Hands has been reported as wresting steering wheels from drivers ' hands and forcing them off the road , often causing appalling accidents . |
| 20 | Allison , who took over Rovers four games ago after the sacking of Dennis Rofe , has already hauled them off the bottom of the table and claims they are going to be a force to be reckoned with . |
| 21 | ‘ We played them off the park for the first 25 minutes of the second half . ’ |
| 22 | This win over their local rivals now means Rovers ' record under Big Mal 's vibrant leadership is one defeat followed by a run of one draw and three victories which have lifted them off the bottom of the table . |
| 23 | I 'll put them in the bin then , ’ she replied , but before she could get them off the cart he handed us the balloons . |
| 24 | Not long ago , my parents were driving home late at night when , for no apparent reason , a car full of men tried to force them off the road . |
| 25 | ‘ Psychobabble ’ can let them off the hook . |
| 26 | At home , while Ministers are careful not to use such words as ‘ green shoots ’ in public , they use them off the record all the time to political journalists , who dutifully pass the message on to the reading public . |
| 27 | ‘ Good thing it 's Curtius , ’ Magda said , ‘ if'n he blows his brains out , at least we wo n't be all day scraping them off the floor . |
| 28 | WHEN Mrs Norma Major first came to our attention , she was reported to either make her own clothes or buy them off the peg from John Lewis . |
| 29 | And I could never sit through all these interviews , transcribing them off the tape afterwards . |
| 30 | If a hawk flies over or a snake appears , he lets the young hop up under his wing and lifts them off the lily pads so that only their legs can be seen hanging down . |