Example sentences of "i off " in BNC.
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1 | This seems to be the view of Lord Donaldson , that truly sagacious Master of the Rolls , who has just called for a new corps of paralegal ‘ civil justices ’ to get people like me off the hook . |
2 | Finally , he showed me off the premises with the injunction , accompanied by a theatrical wink , that I should get straight on to him if I ever had any bother . |
3 | ‘ MY GRANDADDY … would gently nudge me off the sidewalk if a white person ever walked close by . ’ |
4 | But it pissed me off no end when he finally decided to change over because he shut up shop while he did it , leaving me with no Saturday job and no money . |
5 | Whatever he hit me with , feet or wings , it hurt and almost knocked me off balance . |
6 | ‘ I 've promised to take Claudia away for the weekend , and she 's not going to let me off it even though we 're so shorthanded . |
7 | Goddess , I ca n't believe the way you 're trying to scrape me off your hands ! |
8 | ‘ They took me off her |
9 | Coombes leaned out of the window and shouted ‘ Come on then , this time ’ as if to pull me off the road . |
10 | The heavy rope through his nose pulled me off balance . |
11 | He would not let me off the hook until I had confessed that I could no longer work with my boss . |
12 | Lenka adjusted her fur coat , blew on her hands , opened it up and let rip : the noise nearly blew me off the balcony , a stupendous megalomaniac combination of centuries of Bach fugues and the Incredible Dr Phibes . |
13 | Telling the whole truth about the Ayr salmon , rather than letting me off the hook , only improved the tale . |
14 | Were it not for the narrow strip of tar , I would have been stuck hopelessly — several times I was bogged down when the wind blew me off the road . |
15 | My robe billowed , almost lifting me off the ground , and exposed my sunburnt legs to the stinging spray . |
16 | So when Dawson came on the scene and swept me off my feet , as the expression goes , I half jumped into his arms . |
17 | J. V. Night duty was what got me off the job . |
18 | But I ran for them and won most everything , so it was good fun , and it also kept me off the streets , which pleased my parents . |
19 | I could see it now , like a slow motion film , Mr McNaughton peeling me off Sharon Latimer like peeling chewing gum away from a desktop … |
20 | I 'll never forget how th'near slaughtered that feller — or the five golden guineas th'won for me off that dozy dago as set the Creole on thee . |
21 | This demo caught me off guard . |
22 | Have n't I seen over the years what it has done to my husband , a man who lifted me off the shelf just before my sell-by date expired ? |
23 | Between then , the cheap beer , hospitality and subconscious warnings of the physio almost kept me off the sandstone . |
24 | When I yell , take the first available right again , drop me off quick and then keep right on going as fast as you like . |
25 | He propelled me off the terrace and through the shuttered dining-room . |
26 | I thought the hand-cranking on the ‘ 109 a bit dodgy , till an impatient Navy pilot threw me off the wing of a Harvard into the prop , miraculously only tearing my jacket and grazing my arm , putting me in dock for a couple of days . |
27 | She pulled me off the streets really . ’ |
28 | This is because of a sleepy driver who knocked me off my bicycle one evening in 1980 , breaking my back and severing my spinal cord . |
29 | He was set on sweepin' me off me feet and doin' me wrong . |
30 | After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder . |