Example sentences of "to be off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second day of four : Essex ( 8–1 ) trail England A ( 456–7 dec ) by 448 runs IT was the kind of dank , dismal day when opening batsmen were happier to be off the field than on it . |
| 2 | The pavement-quality concrete apron allows cargo to be off loaded directly to the terminal , thus enabling operational speed . |
| 3 | Sadly , Stirling gave orders for much of the equipment to be off loaded and sent back to Kabrit . |
| 4 | The map showed Reggane to be off the main piste . |
| 5 | For instance , a man may expect to have Saturdays to be off fishing with his mates . |
| 6 | The only person not wholly in sympathy with this plan was the bartender who complained that I was supposed to be off duty and that the passengers should come to the bar to buy the drinks themselves ; I was syphoning off his tips . |
| 7 | Each half was to operate for half of each day , allowing 50% of the pilots to be off duty at any one time . |
| 8 | According to Standard Life 's marketing manager Bruce Wallace , less than 18% of the UK 's working population has arranged any form of income protection , although one in five people are likely to be off work for more than three months during their working life . |
| 9 | New Zealander Chisholm has is expected to be off work for two weeks . |
| 10 | Gillroy could no longer raise Darwin , and Koepang seemed to be off the air . |
| 11 | To relieve you of any worries you may have about your monthly repayments if you are unfortunate enough to be off work for any length of time , or if you die unexpectedly , we have a comprehensive insurance Protection Plan . |
| 12 | It has long been recognised that expressions such as to pull someone 's leg , to have a bee in one 's bonnet , to kick the bucket , to cook someone 's goose , to be off one 's rocker , round the bend , up the creek , etc. are semantically peculiar . |
| 13 | Right now this one this one 's going to be off our scale anyway so let's pick fifteen , N is fifteen . |
| 14 | ‘ That means you 're going to be off the streets for quite a while . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm discreetly handcuffed to Detective Sergeant Flavell — McDunn has the key — and we have a couple of burly plain-clothes men with us I strongly suspect are tooled up , but the pressure seems to be off me a bit . |
| 16 | When Stephen was in hospital they kept us on the same house with all the mothers and babies , even though I had asked to be off it . |
| 17 | Heiden is one of those places which , though famous and well developed , can still claim to be off the beaten track . |
| 18 | It was a very very rare occasion , er you had to be ill to be off school . |
| 19 | Indeed , in Britain , the short-lived post-Thatcher pro-Europeanism has been dissipated in a wave of Atlanticism and jingoism — talk of political union now seems to be off the agenda . |
| 20 | STEWART Renton was amazed when doctors told him he had broken his leg in two places — and he could expect to be off work for three months ! |
| 21 | And red lead it and then used to be off the top of the jib . |
| 22 | I think you ought to be off the deaf-aid by now . ’ |
| 23 | Her grandmother sniffed and her mother promised to send in a note whenever she needed to be off PE . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't afford to be off work for a couple of weeks ! |
| 25 | He 's expected to be off work for a few days but will be recalled for important Commons votes , including the Maastricht Treaty social chapter next Thursday . |
| 26 | He is now likely to be off the track until Deauville in mid-August , followed by a tilt at the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 27 | Did you not have to be off the ground a wee bit or something . |
| 28 | And our Colin was to be off t' fair , and that , so , me dad sort of went on to our John and pushed our Colin out a little bit . |
| 29 | they all sit there looking at her and saying bloody hell she ai n't got her own hat on , we 've been here quarter of an hour and she walks in the door , takes her coat off and says come on ladies you 're suppose to be off your hind by two o'clock , leaving here at two |
| 30 | I do n't want him to start in the January and then have to be off school for three weeks because |