Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [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 | ‘ I thought you might have written me off as a crackpot after my performance this morning . ’ |
| 5 | Well I was gon na say you could 've dropped me off at grandma 's . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He has ploughed the land many times and could have set something off at any time . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If I 'd had my hat I 'd have taken it off to the guy . |
| 13 | Though you 'd have thought they 'd have taken it off before bringing in their things . |
| 14 | She would have written me off as a time-wasting nut . |
| 15 | The old Richardson family would have written it off as small change . |