Example sentences of "[vb -s] you off " in BNC.
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1 | Unlike Paradox , which starts you off with its table view , DataEase is forms-based — the table view is an option . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ V S Pritchett wrote a wonderful thing which I 've got pinned up above my desk : that you do n't invent a plot , you invent a character , and then the character leads you off and that becomes the plot . |
4 | Do you feel he cuts you off ? |
5 | and someone cuts you off and you ca n't get back |
6 | ‘ Encountering an incompetent telephonist , who puts you through to the wrong extension and/or cuts you off , and/or is n't sufficiently clued-up about who 's who and where to reach them ’ . |
7 | She says ‘ If a coloured girl tells you off , you are a grown-up , you should give it back . ’ |
8 | Against a background that reflects the social changes of the period , she has woven a richly textured tapestry of a book that sweeps you off to another world . |
9 | If somebody sends you off to — say — Acton or Rotherhithe , you do n't have a choice . |
10 | The slightest thing sends you off , you know . |
11 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
12 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
13 | ‘ Get yourself a good lawyer , and if somebody rips you off , punish them , and do it so hard that their ancestors hurt . ’ |
14 | Get yourself a good lawyer , and if somebody rips you off , punish them , and do it so hard that their ancestors hurt |
15 | Presumably the sight of a red and blue meal puts you off eating it . |
16 | If you are booked in to Black Sail Hut Youth Hostel and the weather puts you off completing the main route , you can make a circuit around Crummock Water before crossing Scarth Gap . |
17 | ‘ When you are handling food all the time it puts you off . ’ |
18 | It puts you off your tea . ’ |
19 | The strangeness of this music puts you off the scent of its skillfulness , which is a shame in a way , but there 's absolutely no way it is unintentional . |
20 | The strangeness of this music puts you off the scent of its skillfulness , which is a shame in a way , but there 's absolutely no way it is unintentional . |
21 | ‘ Something like that puts you off men ? ’ |
22 | It certainly makes you think about it but then the thought of all those nappies puts you off ! ’ |
23 | I do n't like any of them and then when you 've seen them all day long it puts you off a bit do n't like none of the |
24 | Puts you off does n't it ? |
25 | It puts you off eating meat altogether ! |
26 | Ah but she ca n't help it can she but it puts you off going when he 's in dun n it ? |
27 | It 's funny in n it how you know people and it puts you off their names ? |
28 | and so I suppose it puts you off , but there you are . |
29 | I 'm not , I must admit I do n't think about it now , so if wearing it puts you off . |
30 | ‘ So if you curse the moon , the spirit of Hasan reappears and bumps you off ! ’ |