Example sentences of "not [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must sit upright at a table to eat his meals : he can not eat off a tray sitting in bed or an easy chair . |
| 2 | All my life I had done my best not to sound off in company . |
| 3 | ‘ Working , ’ she said briefly , and turned to her papa , who was , for once , at a loss , both his women against him , Sally-Anne in an unlikely alliance with her mother , who had put a protective arm around her daughter 's shoulders , which her daughter did not throw off impatiently in her usual brusque manner . |
| 4 | Why do we not throw off this hangover of socialism and instead celebrate a free enterprise day , a British export day or , better still , a low taxation day ? |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd look lovelier if that jasmine were in your hair and not hanging off your shoulder like that . ’ |
| 6 | It 's like I 'm real light — you know , like one of them silver balloons — and every step I have to be careful not to float off . |
| 7 | This makes you look alert , as indeed you will have to be in order not to fall off ! |
| 8 | Her early school reports were peppered with comments , complimentary or judgemental , depending on the teacher : ‘ Margaret has a very active imagination ’ , ‘ Margaret must learn not to go off into day-dreams ’ , ‘ Margaret does not yet seem to have learned the difference between fact and fiction ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ We drummed it in to all three of our children not to go off with strangers and Johanna was sensible enough to listen , ’ said Robert . |
| 10 | I was playing loads of rave music , and at the end they were begging us not to go off because it was the first time they 'd ever heard it properly . |
| 11 | The assessment should not trigger off frantic practising , but the ward sister can arrange for the student to have the relevant experience . |
| 12 | Many of today 's new creams also claim to be ‘ non-comedogenic ’ — they will not trigger off spots . |
| 13 | Goering 's second flight had also not come off . |
| 14 | When people set off in a boat to prove whether the Earth was round , they did not fall off so that proves that the Earth is flat , but people just say it is round . |
| 15 | Brown mustard is the one grown commercially as it is a shorter plant , at 120–150cm ( 4–5ft ) and the seeds do not fall off easily ; it is largely used instead of black mustard , and has a slightly less hot flavour . |
| 16 | There is a type of frog which is known as a Tree Frog , and there are Biologists that are very interested in why tree frogs do not fall off impossibly steep gradiants . |
| 17 | Some have even kept their tattoos hidden from their children and have been reluctant to explain why they will not peel off in the sun . ’ |
| 18 | The intention is not to write off this side of life as " dirty " , as is plain elsewhere in Scripture . |
| 19 | Anyway I 'm not signing off until about 5.30 tonight so I 'll keep waiting and reading those messages until then — after I 've been to the pub at dinner time of course ! |
| 20 | His biggest regret , he said , was not signing off with a 34th try . |
| 21 | they 're not paralleled off |
| 22 | they 're not paralleled off |
| 23 | Its skin is sticky and the rider can not jump off . |
| 24 | We can not jump off our own shadows . |
| 25 | How many times has Mummy told you not to wander off like that ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I told you not to wander off . ’ |
| 27 | After washing , twist taps were not turned off with the paper towel ; and where elbow taps were available , they were used properly only four times ; and when disposing of the paper towel in foot-operated pedal bins , nurses used their hands to open and close the bins . |
| 28 | And in January it goes on sale at Ryman so homeowners can ensure their freezers or video recorders are not turned off by mistake . |
| 29 | Stopcocks tend to get seized up if not turned off occasionally . |
| 30 | that 's why we are not writing off our two offspinners . ’ |