What do the words in bold type refer to? Comment on their meaning and usage.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 490.
Choose the right verb with the postposition OFF from the list on the right and put it into the blanks.
| a) Thieves broke the shop window and _____ off jewellery worth thousands of pounds. b) The pop festival _____ off peacefully, despite the fears of local residents. c) He's _____ your sister off in a fast car. d) He _____ off for his work an hour ago, hasn't he arrived? e) The plane _____ off at 8.30 a.m. f) We should be able to _____ off the debt within two years. g) Keep the dog on the lead or he'll just _____ off. h) When my dad _____ his beard off, he looked ten years younger. i) Don't you feel you have to get up just to _____ us off? j) We've had to _____ our wedding off till September. | to put to take to drive to set to pass to carry to shave to pay to run to see |
a) I went to Scotland Yard and told them everything.
b) It will cost you fifty thousand pounds to get him back.
c) Someone in the house was in this – one of the servants.
d) I gave theman hour to pack their boxes and get out of the house.
e) “I dare say, it was not very wise, monsieur,” said Poirot.
f) It made my blood boil to see it.
g) It was the sight of Johnnie's flaxen curls.
h) We ran to the council chamber to check the clock – it showed ten minutes past twelve.
i) If they had not followed the wrong car, they might by now have found the boy.
j) It had been swept out with a broom.
k) Itseems to me strange that nobody saw the car entering the grounds.
l) Because theyhoped to get the money without being forced to action.