Example sentences of "be [v-ing] off [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now enlightened farmers are fencing off and replanting areas which can he selectively utilised for animal feeding . |
| 2 | They said that was n't possible and I think I 'm the same opinion as Harry if you 're writing off and stop them going down Station Lane they 'll probably withdraw it altogether . |
| 3 | They 've been to bed and got up in the morning , and now they 're going off and doing things , like going to work and that . |
| 4 | Should n't say things like that , I suppose , ’ he simpered , ‘ but all my friends are going off and doing it . |
| 5 | Alright alright alright , I 'm turning off and going to work . |
| 6 | There 's at least two other poor sods trudging around in the wet when they could be clocking off and going home . |
| 7 | After two or three minutes , by which time the typists were switching off and covering up their machines , Alan emerged from his office and handed Sylvia a cassette . |
| 8 | If you were at Gatwick recently and wondered why all the planes were taking off and landing on the taxi-way , well it was all because of Rentokil Hygiene . |
| 9 | any more any more trouble even though she 's not getting into bad trouble as such it 's going off and coming home |
| 10 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 11 | Pat O'Keefe slipped and fell as the boat was setting off and injured his hand as he plunged six feet over the side of the harbour , and had to be rescued by the crowd of journalists who had gathered to see Jack off . |
| 12 | Leaping off the bed I hurtled up to the rod which by now was screaming off and picking it up I felt the line pluck nicely through my fingers ; knowing that it must be a cat on the other end gave me a real thrill . |
| 13 | He was backing off and looking around when Carson said , ‘ Where will you go ? ’ |