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 ! ’
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