Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Finns are seeing them off , or so the papers say . ’ |
| 2 | Bad when we meet someone at the station , but unbearable when we are seeing them off ; not present when we are departing ourselves , but unbearable when arriving in London , if only from a day in Brighton . ’ |
| 3 | I believe in seeing them off . |
| 4 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 5 | Cheering them off on their 230 miles ' journey was TV 's ‘ Mr Blobby ’ and Mr John Lambeth , secretary and chief executive of LVFS . |
| 6 | Cheering them off on their 230 miles ' journey was TV 's ‘ Mr Blobby ’ and Mr John Lambeth , secretary and chief executive of LVFS . |
| 7 | I had one pissing me off all weekend . |
| 8 | Pissing me off now you . |
| 9 | Oh this machine is really pissing me off ! |
| 10 | It 's really pissing me off ! |
| 11 | but I 've got ta , I 've got ta , I know , I 've got ta get it off my back though because it 's really pissing me off . |
| 12 | All right , I 'm , I 'm never speaking to you again because ever since you dumped him he 's been hanging around with us and he 's pissing me off ! |
| 13 | He sent two screamers past Oxford keeper Paul Reece and declared : ‘ People have been slagging me off , saying I ca n't play and talking about my disciplinary problems . |
| 14 | She she you know she was slagging me off like anything right . |
| 15 | Anyway , on a brighter note … apparently the Arsenal mailing list are pissed off by the Scum mailing list for slagging them off . |
| 16 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time — only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied or at the doorway of the house of a friend of my mother 's , with a boy my mother fancied for me inside . |
| 17 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time , only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied , or at the door of a friend of my mother 's with a boy she fancied for me inside . |
| 18 | It smashed through the gates , tearing them off their hinges as though they were made of plastic . |
| 19 | Yeah , she 's always been alright with me , you know , so I ca n't say about anybody else , I mean she 's already , she 's always been really nice to me , but like them people she goes around , well she used to go around with Lisa and Vicky and all that lot and when she used to go around with them she used to be bitching them off behind their back and going oh you 're my best friend , to their faces . |
| 20 | You 're knocking me off . |
| 21 | I mean she used to toss , toss me off on the old and there 's , there 's and she used to sit on there used , used to sit on there she used to toss me off and I got this fucking as she 's tossing me off she did this love bite . |
| 22 | The Countless Stones at Aylesford in Kent are the remains of a chambered tomb : a baker is said to have tried to solve the problem by placing a loaf on each stone , but the Devil kept knocking them off . |
| 23 | Well as I told you at you used to clip them that damn short and we when I was knocking them off , I had to keep dodging down , let the wag and keep knock clips off and chuck the one side and then the wagons came down They went down the hill like that , and then up here there was a hook line to stop them . |
| 24 | I mean if you watch a child , and I have a seven year old boy , playing stacking cards or dominoes is the current thing in our house , watching them stack them and then knocking them off and watching them fall and the way they fall , the amount of work which is involved there in structures and forces and the nature of gravity and the way things behave under gravity fascinate them . |
| 25 | I mean if you watch a child , and I have a seven year old boy , playing stacking cards or dominoes is the current thing in our house , watching them stack them and then knocking them off and watching them fall and the way they fall , the amount of work which is involved there in structures and forces and the nature of gravity and the way things behave under gravity fascinate them . |
| 26 | He 's bunging them off . |
| 27 | However , Grimm was already picking himself up , swearing , dusting himself off , retrieving his cap . |
| 28 | While he was knocking himself off , I was preparing to make my introductions to the sidewalk . |
| 29 | So I went up and there was a bloke standing in the middle of the toilets , by the basin , tossing himself off , and I said , ‘ What do you think you 're doing ? ’ |
| 30 | Each combatant aims to floor his opponent , by knocking him off his feet or biting him behind the elbow . |