Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 2 | If she 's not careful , her poor old taxi is going to find itself off the road for a week . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better see who it is , ’ he said savagely as she rolled away from him , allowing him to ease himself off the bed to gather his trousers from the floor . |
| 4 | Did n't want her to chuck herself off a bridge , so I 've let her have one of my rooms . ’ |
| 5 | Anyone daft enough to chuck themselves off a cliff — ’ |
| 6 | Another possibility is to let yourself off doing jobs you do not like as a reward for making good progress . |
| 7 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 8 | It flaps its wings a few times to lift itself off the ground , then simply rises up , using whatever thermals and air currents it comes across . |
| 9 | Last Saturday United managed to lift themselves off the foot of division two , but they 're still financially rock bottom . |
| 10 | DEFENSIVE blunders cost Quakers the chance to lift themselves off the bottom of the table . |
| 11 | ‘ So we made a plan to get ourselves off the ship , ’ Dr Livesey went on . |
| 12 | Some people will resort to games in order to get themselves off the hook or to put down another person . |
| 13 | I 'm perfectly happy to plead a two-year-old 's birthday and then wiggle , flatter and schmooze to get myself off the hook . |
| 14 | In a move by the company , it says , to wean itself off relying on the IBM mainframe market , it also hopes to break into the VAX and Unix commercial market by opening up its CA-IDMS and CA-Datacom non-relational database packages . |
| 15 | But she was trying to wean herself off them and to give in now would be to acknowledge the potency of the nightmare . |
| 16 | She had had to wean herself off the dope over a period of years , and still felt the occasional urge for a H-9 hit . |
| 17 | Cigarette filters are designed to trap some of the tar and nicotine enabling smokers to wean themselves off cigarettes gradually . |
| 18 | It 's also worth visiting your GP for advice on healthy eating and how to wean yourself off nicotine . |
| 19 | I 'm sorry to say but I think that we 're talking about this education day at the beginning of October and I mean god knows we 've known this is coming for , it 's almost as if we 've got to the brink of , you know like lemmings just about to throw ourselves off the cliff and we do n't know why we 're going to do it . |
| 20 | But it 's not all play for Jon , because he now has to drag himself off the podiums to do the warm-up spot behind the decks . |
| 21 | He 's watched the success of companies such as PowerSoft Corp and aims to cut himself off a slice with a new cross-system client-server graphical desktop development environment to build database applications . |
| 22 | He 's watched the success of companies such as PowerSoft Corp and aims to cut himself off a slice with a new cross-platform client/server graphical desktop development environment to build database applications . |
| 23 | One day , just as he is about to throw himself off a cliff , he sees Custer riding for Little Big Horn . |
| 24 | He decided to throw himself off the parapet of the bridge instead of lying down on the track . |
| 25 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 26 | In the first half , Everton were overrun by a pumped-up Forest side desperate to drag themselves off the bottom of the Premier League and give the lie to whispers that Cloughie 's powers are in decline . |
| 27 | ‘ Yeah ; soon as it 's finished , I 'm going to throw myself off the Channel Tunnel . ’ |
| 28 | The betrayer , Oswald , believes that it is possible to cut oneself off from the past ( compare the argument between Tom Paine and Burke about the British constitution ; is it desirable to imitate the French and abolish the past by Revolution ? ) . |