Example sentences of "[pers pn] off [conj] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 erm I ca n't roll them off and I do n't know if it applies in all of them , but it happened to me in Italy that erm I was fined on the spot .
2 We snatched opportunities when we could , when my children were staying with friends or even , once , and extra dangerously , when they were asleep ( though the fear that one of them might wake put me off so I did n't try that again ) .
3 Here 's him — no parents , no roof over his head , on the streets , sleeping God knows where — and here 's me moaning on about waiting sixteen hours for my boy-friend to ring and being terrified that Mummy and Daddy 'll tell me off when I get back to the Nest .
4 I 'm not doing as much homework but bloody hard at school which Roland wo n't appreciate , which really pisses me off cos I do n't
5 I sent it off but I have n't had anything back .
6 Mr Fletcher , 64 , from Ormskirk , said : ‘ I thought it was a good snap and sent it off but I did n't think any more about it . ’
7 I always take it off before I go out . ’
8 I knocked it off as I ran past .
9 I checked it off when I got back and it 's not too bad .
10 ‘ Aye , I 'm always meanin' te shut it off when I go out , but I keep forgettin' . ’
11 " I could shake it off if I had n't hurt my neck . "
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