Example sentences of "[verb] it off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 2 | For God 's sake go to bed and try and sleep it off before dinner . |
| 3 | I ai n't got a hankie or nothing so I try and lick it off with my tongue , but I ca n't get all of it . |
| 4 | Will the artificial and shallow-minded of the world ever recognise the beauty of natural values and not shrug it off as sky-high idealism ? |
| 5 | Agrees to write it off for me . |
| 6 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 7 | It 's the last day of Week 2 and I suggest that you have your main meal at lunchtime again , so allowing more time to work it off before tomorrow 's assessment . |
| 8 | Fill in the coupon on this page and send it off with the appropriate cheque |
| 9 | Now that you 've decided on our new club name send it off to — . |
| 10 | We had to pay er there was two lots of erm tyres , there was one set of buses were fitted with and another one with or I forget which it was there but I know those three were involved at some time or other and we used to record the mileage , send it off to them , showing what each bus ran during the month . |
| 11 | The purchaser would take his own blood sample , send it off to the laboratory , and await the results by post . |
| 12 | To apply for supplementary pension get leaflet SB 1 from the post office , fill in your name and address , sign it and send it off in the pre-paid envelope . |
| 13 | Send it off in any case . |
| 14 | You knock it off by , what was it ? |
| 15 | sure but again I mean if there was a market for this I am sure that to take that and splinter it off into a unit it costs money to get people that want to come into this business |
| 16 | He shouts it off about lots of other things . |
| 17 | After a couple of hours , peel it off in one layer and scrub the wood thoroughly with water and a stiff brush . |
| 18 | They wanted to pass it off through words — none would come . |
| 19 | This is because the ‘ syntax ’ of theory , the logic on which it is based , is at the root of structures which have historically been used to trivialize , marginalize , and devalue the discourse of women , to pass it off at best as a mere fiction , and at worst as an illicit form of language use or one in poor taste , like the pun . |
| 20 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 21 | Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard . |
| 22 | Then , this morning ( I woke up early ) before he came down , I decided to pass it off as something unimportant . |
| 23 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 24 | You 're making a point , and then he comes in and finishes it off for you . |
| 25 | According to Odent , fathers not only groan with a miscellany of aches and pains before , during and after the birth of a child , but also put on weight beforehand , then top it off with post-natal depression . |
| 26 | Always do on a bed of wheat straw , so you nip it off from where the you see , and you know your measurement . |
| 27 | Let's go downstairs and show it off to the others . ’ |
| 28 | Cheeky 10-year-old Kevin , of Holywell , took the engagement ring as a prank so he could show it off to his friends . |
| 29 | nanny 's down the road , but Carl was in this morning so I dropped it off to him it 's gon na be a long time |
| 30 | But how can I I ca n't get it down here you see , not unless you go and dropped it off like |