Example sentences of "[to-vb] i off " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 2 | Deemy was on hand next morning at sunrise to see me off aboard one of the transport planes carrying some 40 young pilots en route to Fairbanks . |
| 3 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 4 | ‘ How lovely — have you both come to see me off ? ’ |
| 5 | Unless , of course , you particularly want to see me off . |
| 6 | Perry tried to kill me off — as if one could kill an abstraction , a measurement . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you trying to kill me off by degrees ? ’ |
| 8 | She was trying to frighten me off , of course . |
| 9 | The wheelbarrow seemed to want to shake me off like a steer at a rodeo . |
| 10 | In an attempt to shake me off , his elbow smashed into my face , breaking my nose and a canine tooth . |
| 11 | I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell . |
| 12 | ‘ It seems after he decided to pull me off , he looked back and decided on different reasons for things over the years to stir up our relationship . ’ |
| 13 | But Lewis insisted : ‘ There is n't enough money in Britain or America put together to buy me off . |
| 14 | They 're trying to buy me off in hopes I 'll bow to their idiotic new arrangements without a bleat . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You mean you 're trying to buy me off ? ’ |
| 16 | Geoff er had a problem with transport so I rang A B A Disco shouting and screaming at Alistaire about if I sit here any longer you 're gon na have to chip me off , I 'm frozen ! |
| 17 | You see , he does not intend to cast me off , not at all . |
| 18 | Back at home , back at school and everything now , I do n't know , she never ever told me the story , she used to talked to Steffy she used to shut me off , and I thought I 'd |
| 19 | ‘ Why are you trying to put me off ? ’ |
| 20 | Christopher 's voice broke into her thoughts : ‘ You 're trying to put me off . ’ |
| 21 | Come on , you 've gabbled enough and you 're just trying to put me off my game . |
| 22 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 23 | Probably even all those long walks she says she takes are a pretence to put me off . |
| 24 | Er even the headmaster said , he tried to put me off . |
| 25 | trying to put me off it or not but |
| 26 | ‘ No , I did n't think you did , so kindly go away and stop trying to put me off . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ How dare you come here trying to put me off my guard with some absurd story ? ’ he countered with simmering hostility , regarding her belligerent stance with brooding interest . |
| 28 | ‘ Did he even exist or was he an invention to put me off ? |
| 29 | to switch me off at the flat . |
| 30 | to give up and I thought I do n't want to fail on my own so I wo n't even attempt and then I erm I joined this project , and that was enough , I think , to keep me off . |