Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] they off " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Britain 's most famous hockey player insists it 's wrong to write them off . |
| 2 | This puts them off as they are afraid of making fools of themselves . ’ |
| 3 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 4 | She looked aghast , tried to defend her view and then grew apologetic saying that newspaper offices were n't like others , the most extraordinary things turned up in the post all the time and it was reflex to laugh them off and throw them away . |
| 5 | It 's too easy to shrug them off as drippy MOR bores because popularity , ultimately , has its price . |
| 6 | The extent , however , to which that marks them off from what are typically thought of as more ‘ objective ’ features of the world in which we live depends on how far one thinks that has a character independent of any form of sentient experience . |
| 7 | The slower pace bored and irritated them so much that they longed to go back and their parents were almost glad to see them off . |
| 8 | He was quick to point out that when they went up to Oxford — as most of my pupils would he likely to do — the impact of Marx , the one reputation which most politically-conscious dons revered , was likely to sweep them off their feet . |
| 9 | Then he 'd , he used to try them on the hairs on his arm and if that cut them off that suited him you see |
| 10 | all selling them off like their payin paying you to take it away . |
| 11 | Cos I might be able to cart them off to Joanne and Emma to give them to their mum 's on Mother 's Day |
| 12 | They attacked him , but he was able to hold them off until help arrived . |
| 13 | However , it is unwise to seal them off completely with tape as a large change in atmospheric pressure may cause damage to some instruments . |
| 14 | All jockey big-heads on the Jockey Club , you know first started them off like , you know ? |
| 15 | That put them off the scent . |
| 16 | We had n't petrol or anything like that to get them off . |
| 17 | This system is efficient because the males can gang up on attacking predators and their joint efforts are enough to drive them off . |
| 18 | The Princess had spotlights , he 'd turn them around this way when it was time to get Sandy to the door and then he 'd go back on his own to switch them off . |
| 19 | At first I only wore the bins for homework and blackboard but , as the years rolled myopically by , I came to rely on them more and became too lazy to take them off . |
| 20 | At first I only wore the bins for homework and blackboard but , as the years rolled myopically by , I came to rely on them more and more , too lazy to take them off . |
| 21 | That set them off again , Harbury enthusiastically reciting the string of reasons why the police had questioned Tavett several times ; Oliver throwing in that Tavett might have known about it but Pascoe must have done it ; Zak saying it was political assassination and nothing to do with the staff of the paper ; Holly reminding him that Scotland Yard 's anti-terrorist branch had found nothing to support that ; and Rosie hushing the clamour because her telephone was ringing . |
| 22 | But the white-and-holy showed them off like prized exhibits , for they liked to make the most of their scanty history . |
| 23 | Anyway , he only collected all these things till they got sufficient to auction them off . |
| 24 | The amazing ‘ Street of Much Music ’ , with it 's abundance of colourful bars and restaurants is only 10–15 metres away , as is the beach where you can take advantage of your free beach mat and cultivate those tans ready to show them off at some of Kos town 's brilliant night-clubs , also 15 minutes away . |