Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [pron] off [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Should have finished them off in that first |
2 | ‘ But something else must have started you off on this search . |
3 | Dad must have told him off for |
4 | You 've got ta probe and establish the reasons why I 'm gon na talk to him and most people it 's , it 's , it 's a lie , they 're not gon na talk to him , they want to use the accountant as a reason to say oh erm I 'm , I ca n't do it this time the accountant said no or I 've not spoken to him yet I 'll have to put it off for a , for a bit longer |
5 | I 'll have to send it off to . |
6 | He 's gon na give it into Mericlean and Mericlean , just said we 'll have to send it off to the tax office to get your tax code changed . |
7 | I 'll have to dab it off in the Ladies . ’ |
8 | ‘ I thought you might have written me off as a crackpot after my performance this morning . ’ |
9 | Well I was gon na say you could 've dropped me off at grandma 's . |
10 | ‘ We have come here and beaten the best form team in the country and we could have killed them off at half-time with a three or four-goal lead . |
11 | Once I could have seen them off by asserting that I had no interest in such things , preferring to live from one day to the next , unfettered by possessions and responsibilities . |
12 | He has ploughed the land many times and could have set something off at any time . |
13 | We could have passed you off as the English rose of our collection , although I trust you have n't the natural frigidity of your British sisters . ’ |
14 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
15 | She could have taken herself off to the local Italian with her child and a book of her own , for Kate also likes reading though her tastes are less morbific . |
16 | If I 'd had my hat I 'd have taken it off to the guy . |
17 | Though you 'd have thought they 'd have taken it off before bringing in their things . |
18 | She would have written me off as a time-wasting nut . |
19 | The old Richardson family would have written it off as small change . |
20 | And I thought he 'd have given it in or something , well Mrs would have took it off of her children . |