Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] it off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billie had joined Lily and they had obviously hit it off . |
| 2 | they had literally poured it off . |
| 3 | The episode of Alison 's knee had been startling , but Franca had somehow shuffled it off , undramatised it . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's an awful play on , ’ she snapped , having already turned it off . |
| 5 | Several hours later I had not heard anything of the incident , so it seemed likely that the Officer had not reported the matter , or Lovat had just shrugged it off . |
| 6 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 7 | This woman 's firm had totally ripped it off for one of the midmarket youth fashion houses . |
| 8 | Its major aim , as will appear , is to demonstrate that the crucial medical-legal decision is not switching off a ventilator , but rather , switching it on , either initially or after having once turned it off . |
| 9 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 10 | That is relevant to people who are in work , as those of us who have mortgages know , but , generally speaking , it is not very relevant to pensioners , who , if they had a mortgage , have usually paid it off . |
| 11 | You 've probably wiped it off now , by now cos it was ages ago |
| 12 | The positivist attempt to disengage itself from legal conceptions of crime and the operations of legal processes generally , clearly marked it off from classical criminology . |
| 13 | Hers was on the floor by the bedside table — she 'd probably knocked it off when she had a glass of water , or when she took the veronal . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He does n't , ’ Cara agreed , ‘ which is why it 's even more fantastic that after weeks and weeks of my buttering up his secretary I 've eventually pulled it off . |
| 15 | Sinead has really pulled it off in a big , bold way here ; her honesty and emotional intensity permeate every bar , every nuance of every lyric . |
| 16 | SINEAD HAS really pulled it off in a big , bold way ; her honesty and emotional intensity permeate every bar , every nuance of every lyric . |
| 17 | Cos you have n't turned it off . |
| 18 | Well I , I 've , but er , no but er the only reason you have n't got it off , if you use Jif , I 've used Jif |
| 19 | But lines like ‘ It 's a bit hard , your Highness , I have n't had it off for a year ’ , when muttered by a grubby servant referring to his shoe , come just as easily from Tony Slattery as they ever did from Sid James . |
| 20 | ‘ If only I had n't called it off she might still be here . ’ |
| 21 | I have I have n't scrubbed it off or anything cos it is quite funny |
| 22 | I was a bit depressed about it and nearly did n't sent it off . |
| 23 | The police restricted the parade to the Falls area and the organising committee then called it off so as to avoid compromising the principle of working-class unity . |
| 24 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 25 | As presentation day grew closer with Mark racing against time to complete the plan and finalise the slide illustrations , so Klepner read and re-read it until he had almost learnt it off by heart . |
| 26 | And you do n't know the colour until you 've actually washed it off anyway . |
| 27 | So he 's actually taken it off ? |