Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was brought up in Albert Street near the Hibs ground , my whole family came from that area , my dad used to sneak into the ground at night to play football on the grass at Easter Road , and I got sent off in my own backyard . |
| 2 | Trouble yeah , trouble I got put off for a fortnight , on the dole , then he , I was on the dole for a week and er he cos at that time you had to appear in front of the erm , what they call the Court of Referees at the Labour Exchange , that was their Committee . |
| 3 | The bad yellow-eyed woman made me take my toothbrush in case I got carted off to pokey . |
| 4 | And I got told off for it . |
| 5 | I got told off for calling it Pakistan . |
| 6 | I got told off by the ref — I was a bit wild then — and Ian began moaning as though he was crying . |
| 7 | If it is , it none the less dates back explicitly to 1961 when he played Littlechap , the Everyman figure who makes it big , in Stop The World — I Want To Get Off at the Queen 's . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to show off to everyone . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of |
| 10 | I 'd gone off of it until we opened that one on Sunday when you came over and I 'd finished it by Tuesday , I was getting quite hooked on it |
| 11 | I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere . |
| 12 | You thought I 'd got off with him for fuck 's sake ! |
| 13 | So here it 's something very like that I finished up with I 've if I 'd started off with that I would have finished up with twice what |
| 14 | I sling a few carcasses to prowling cats , and I get told off for it . |
| 15 | So it 's unusual and I get told off for giving you a choice but what do you think ? |
| 16 | I get told off by my girlfriend because I wake up in the morning and the first thing I say is , ‘ Flippin' heck , have you sent those newsletters off yet ? . ’ |
| 17 | So I did and it 's very strange I remember toddling off with this little chap and er and Miss said , Who is this then ? or words to that effect . |
| 18 | Also , I have found Mr Hauser has a Lear jet which flies him across the world plus a Sikorsky helicopter which I saw taking off from the grounds of Livingstone Manor . |
| 19 | I used them , about 14 a day , for a week and I managed to stay off for about a month . |
| 20 | I 've thought about it but erm it 's another one of those things I , I guess I keep putting off to the er a little bit later . |
| 21 | I think to start off with we 'll just give you something to relive the symptoms |
| 22 | ‘ I risk drifting off into space . |
| 23 | But he was pleased when I did take off at his command . |
| 24 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 25 | I thought of his sweetness in sitting beside me all night , and of the shadows on his face in the morning , and how I had gone off without telling him I loved him . |
| 26 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 27 | That IRA active service unit I had to knock off in London back in thirty-six — they used underworld contacts a lot , even to buy their explosives . ’ |
| 28 | I found to my horror that it was " Engaged " ; I had taken off with " George " in control . |
| 29 | ‘ I had to start off with a Japanese Top 40 guitar — inch high action ! |
| 30 | erm and I 've sent off for some loose fitting ones |