Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jed knew what the answer was , and he was drunk enough to carry it off . |
| 2 | he 's old enough to carry it off , but me mum says to her , now erm , she says like what , what do you do Marie , if he 's annoying you , and she goes like that she goes Ryan 's |
| 3 | Even so , a process of gradual denial creeps into Ealing 's output , most clearly represented in Train of Events ( 1949 ) , a film that brings together many of the characters who people post-war movies , only to kill them off or put a stop on their moral infractions . |
| 4 | It was a lot of sort of hippies pulling together to pull something off — hardly your Daily Mirror love nest , if you get my drift . |
| 5 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 6 | In the five minutes spent walking fast enough to shake them off , I 'm in the crowds in the main square , Djemaa el Fna . |
| 7 | But Lewis insisted : ‘ There is n't enough money in Britain or America put together to buy me off . |
| 8 | ‘ You are young enough , intelligent enough to cast it off . |
| 9 | Enough to put anyone off ! ’ |
| 10 | Some surfaces can make it bobble a bit , though not enough to put you off . |
| 11 | But if weather conditions are really severe , or bad enough to put you off , there is a way of literally getting around this ‘ obstacle ’ . |
| 12 | Just enough to pay him off ? |
| 13 | Better to have it off , though . |
| 14 | When they do , they 're tough enough to shrug it off . |
| 15 | God knows it is hard enough to get him off to sleep in that place and he 's asleep now . " |
| 16 | ‘ Very useful things , ladders , especially when you 're on the top of one — there 's nowhere for you to run , which I get the feeling you are contemplating , and I think even you are n't callous enough to push me off backwards . ’ |
| 17 | When the ship was swinging round , they 'd go down the river , th that here rope was still on the bollard so to throw it off |
| 18 | She was not brave enough to cut herself off from Finn entirely , in the end . |
| 19 | Too soon to write them off but the benchmark has been set very high already . |
| 20 | Internal bell just to frighten them off . |
| 21 | kept saying yes to everything just to barge them off . |
| 22 | Plus the favourite one , at a certain stage is is just to leave it off . |
| 23 | Just to finish it off yeah . |
| 24 | Yeah bet , bet they will just to piss me off . |
| 25 | Apparently , so the bloke on Sky said , Wilko gets a major slagging off in it , and Cantona even says stuff like Wilko sold him cheap to the Scum just to piss him off . |
| 26 | So it 's taken an hour just to drop her off , Get parked and get in here . |
| 27 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 28 | Ward was angling across the slope above to cut him off . |
| 29 | Maybe he 'd already unearthed what was left , and it was too late just to warn him off and hope for the best . |
| 30 | Tap Caps Lock once to switch it off . |