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Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] off " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ If he came back and found we 'd made off by ourselves , he 'd go back to Tara and tell them we 'd reneged on the bargain , ’ finished Snodgrass .
2	She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car .
3	We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time .
4	We took up our time-killing almost where we 'd left off .
5	Let's say we 'd started off with three X
6	And we get pissed off with Cumbria
7	’ We get tipped off .
8	just finished up with four X cubed minus X times its differential so what must we have started off we differentiated something and it was very very close to this very
9	What must we have started off with here to finish up with with that ?
10	There was little noise from outside the windows and we appeared cut off from the city and from civilian life in general ; I lay in bed and pulled the sheets up over my nose .
11	I keep telling Michel that nobody is in the slightest doubt that we 've run off together , but the fact seems to be that as long as there 's no actual proof , it ca n't hurt us .
12	It 's a big football night in Europe tonight that 's why we 've kicked off early …
13	That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ .
14	and we 've set off , almost on the same rules .
15	Ah okay well we 'll car we 'll do a little bit more we 'll find out some more of these words ending in K and when we 've finished off those erm we 'll have a little look at some maths .
16	We grew very rapidly until the last five years or so , since when we 've levelled off in size , but erm the range of our activities in various countries abroad and indeed in Britain , has continued to grow .
17	Er so we 've started off with a number of relatively nitpicking erm erm points .
18	Twelve times integral of X squared D X well if we 'd have started off with X squared we 'd could have we would have if we 've started off with X cubed we would have finished up with three X cubed
19	we 've paid off in two years , Karen .
20	When J. came back from his course , we simply carried on from where we had left off .
21	I looked round for something with which I could knock him out after we had taken off .
22	The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island .
23	We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns .
24	And so , monologue complete , we had set off .
25	No we 're not all rushing off all over the place although the men and s some of the women you know we have gone off and they still I mean the men were in South Wales last week .
26	In absolute levels , we have fallen off only from the historically high 1980 figures .
27	‘ Now that we have killed off Rex and Woodbum , we seem to have killed off our chances of having them lead us to the Presley hoard . ’
28	We have rounded off calorie values of meals to make it easy for you to add together your 450 — 1,100 calories allowed for the day ( in addition to your 400 from Fibre-Filler , fruit and milk ) ; we have also rounded off metric ingredient figures for easy measuring .