Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 2 | I 've been ringing off and on since lunchtime . ’ |
| 3 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been canoeing off and on for about ten years , but this is my first venture on the open sea , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 6 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |
| 7 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 8 | If you have been holding off before making changes , now is the time for making some new beginnings . |
| 9 | This air is richer in carbon dioxide and it will thus quickly replenish the carbon dioxide you have been blowing off . |
| 10 | Spring is also the ideal time to do all those jobs you have been putting off all winter . |
| 11 | The reader 's time and money would be better spent reading that classic novel you have been putting off for years . |
| 12 | I mean she 's been living off what seventy three odd quid has she ? |
| 13 | And friendship with Clan Diarmaid , that we 've been fighting off and on for five generations ! |
| 14 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 15 | members to members , and not perhaps for officers to interfere too much other than to give you background information , and it has been falling off , let me just say that . |
| 16 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 17 | Very urgent business which he 'd been putting off . |
| 18 | Since the 1970s it had been fending off pressure from Scandinavia . |
| 19 | Christian leaders who had been thinking of it have been backing off . |
| 20 | I ge to be honest though erm half the problem 's been I think that it 's been spoiling off so much crap , you know when I was doing those little things |
| 21 | HE 'S been running off with the toilet rolls — and viewers ' affections — for 21 years . |
| 22 | He 's been shooting off his mouth about me and I 'll close it for him . |
| 23 | He 's been shooting off his mouth about me and I will close it for him ’ Lennox Lewis DONALD MACLEOD Lennox Lewis : ‘ The only fear I know inside the ring is the fear of losing . |
| 24 | My guess is he 's been selling off some of the better vintages over the past few years . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ As I 've said , he 's been working off and on on the house as a favour . |