Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That God 's creatures should revolt against him , and so cut themselves off from the ground of their own being , is an ‘ impossible possibility ’ which has nonetheless been actualised . |
| 3 | drive down drop her off at in-laws . |
| 4 | He 'd suddenly take us off on crazy weekends . |
| 5 | ( I prefer to gently lever them off from the underside with a small screwdriver ) . |
| 6 | AMANDA DIETZ There was no rest for Amanda Dietz who only took one off between leaving Johnstone High School and starting her new job at Stoddard . |
| 7 | Reg looked at least three divisions better than anyone else on the park , and many of us thought it incomprehensible of ‘ Bencey ’ to literally drag him off after only five minutes . |
| 8 | He had bullet wounds said to have been inflicted by Mr Athulathmudali 's bodyguard , and had apparently finished himself off by taking cyanide , a method of suicide used by Tamil Tiger guerrillas . |
| 9 | The consumer is often not even aware what the bill is , and if he or she is , merely posts it off to the company to pay . |
| 10 | She was not brave enough to cut herself off from Finn entirely , in the end . |
| 11 | Magee moved closer , inside the high stone walls of the yard , walls that effectively cut it off from anyone who might be passing . |
| 12 | And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked . |
| 13 | Will the artificial and shallow-minded of the world ever recognise the beauty of natural values and not shrug it off as sky-high idealism ? |
| 14 | He just told you off for being a pain , I bet ! |
| 15 | Just drop you off in |
| 16 | I rang him up before I went down and said I would n't be going in , I said I 'll just drop it off for you I says , cos er there 's me and June full of cold , it 's no good letting Ben get it is it ? |
| 17 | I 'll just drop it off in the kitchen for you , shall I ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If you could just drop us off at the first five-star hotel you come to . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Hubbard , who is retired and lives at Hutton Avenue with his wife Margaret , said : ‘ We just hit it off as pals . |
| 20 | However , if your circumstances change , and you can not keep to an arrangement , tell the fuel supplier , who should not cut you off without offering you another arrangement or a pre-payment meter . |
| 21 | A recent demonstration of the 3M Computer Aided Retrieval system , which uses microfilm cartridges linked to a computer-generated indexing system , has suggested a cost-effective way forward here , which does not cut itself off from future DIP systems . |
| 22 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |
| 23 | My Grandfather arrived and was found to be not my ‘ official ’ guardian , but despite red tape they finally carted me off to be cauterized . |
| 24 | She has not cut herself off from her parents , however , as this is something which would only have led her to feel guilty and therefore decreased her confidence even further . |
| 25 | Ah , he just scrounged them off of me . |
| 26 | Just turn it off by the T V. |
| 27 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 28 | Jay had asked her over to show her off to her four oldest friends . |
| 29 | Practise speaking your answers out loud but do not learn them off by heart . |
| 30 | E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it . |