Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between demonstrates how a multiplicity of different discursive systems intertwine to form the substrata of an individual mind which plays them off against each other , combines them and uses them to generate the repertory of stories that determine how she ‘ reads ’ the world in which she lives . |
| 2 | This a bedroom key for receptacle which turns on energy systems only when the fob is inserted — and turns them off again when the guest takes the key out to leave the room . |
| 3 | A combination of town centre parking hassles , tiresome crowds and queues , frequent bad weather and poor customer service turns them off , yet they are hooked on the thrill of consuming , says the survey . |
| 4 | If it turns them off at school it will probably turn them off at university . |
| 5 | Expense , though , is not what turns me off . |
| 6 | The idea just turns me off and my husband ca n't understand this . |
| 7 | Turns me off . ’ |
| 8 | She splits me off from you lot , I 'm really fucked off actually cos like when I just go to dinner I just go with bloody Marina and then I sit there and I just do n't say a word and no one ever talks to me . |
| 9 | if you have , cos what , what happens is if you put A and B it erm it parallels them off , so if you 've got two sets of four amps it 's in two rows |
| 10 | which is very natural , and so she ships them off to Germany to the relatives |
| 11 | Not that I mean it to be a breathless race , but rather that I somehow do n't see life in an ordinary manner , not even this sere and monotonous existence in Africa ; granted , it browns me off sometimes , but I do pretty well on the whole ; and if I can still enjoy this incredibly austere and disciplined life , how much more shall we not enjoy life together ? |
| 12 | He drops me off downwind of the motel . |
| 13 | More often than not Ma starts me off only to leave me stranded above the waterdragon with my–backside wedged into the Young Person 's Patent Toilet Seat Adaptor ( another trophy won from the WI jumble by Pa ) . |
| 14 | The 'Boks may be ring rusty but , says JOHN ROBBIE , they are top-heavy with talent and anyone who writes them off does so at their peril … |
| 15 | Unlike Paradox , which starts you off with its table view , DataEase is forms-based — the table view is an option . |
| 16 | It 's the new Protagon , the tennis racket which sounds like a drug but which plays like an old friend , the loyal doubles partner who helps you to cope with the important things in life , things like how to fox the club champion who usually knocks you off without ever getting out of auto pilot mode . |
| 17 | Opens his door to get out his paper to get out to get the paper , little boy on bike comes along knocks him off . |
| 18 | That that 's the kind of thing that starts him off ( starts him off ) . |
| 19 | That that 's the kind of thing that starts him off ( starts him off ) . |
| 20 | Every time she walks in this house , she starts him off . |
| 21 | ‘ He is obviously having his problems right now , but believe me , anyone who writes him off does so at their peril . ’ |
| 22 | Drops her off at the hospital . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Or drops her off at the beach house . ’ |
| 24 | He shouts it off about lots of other things . |
| 25 | LT : Oh yes , I see , chips in and finishes it off . |
| 26 | You 're making a point , and then he comes in and finishes it off for you . |
| 27 | The legend about the making of Letter To Brezhnev starts it off . |
| 28 | Hits it so low , he knocks it off and he comes down the wrong way and lands on top of us . |
| 29 | Each ship is built for the coronation of the ruler and on his or her death bears them off to the Isle of the Dead to rest at last with the ancient rulers of Ulthuan . |
| 30 | Frost ai n't good for plants , it turns them black and kills them off if you ai n't careful , but I reckon grass must be OK . |