Example sentences of "it off [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got this notion that I 'd some terrible disease – as if the Con was n't terrible enough – and everybody would catch it off me . |
| 2 | ‘ And is obviously part of the plot , hired to hand me the note , and take it off me afterwards . |
| 3 | I only have to go a few quid over and I get snooty letters threatening to take it off me . |
| 4 | ‘ Then when she caught me with a cigarette she went really mad and tried to grab it off me . ’ |
| 5 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 6 | I took my inhaler with me , and they took it off me , telling me I used it to make myself high . |
| 7 | And he 'd know that and he m he probably would n't buy it off me . |
| 8 | They took it off me after that . ’ |
| 9 | I would have loved to have swung the sodding bag and hit him straight in the balls but the old tight-fist snatched it off me and threw the gold on to the hall floor so he could watch his courtiers scramble . |
| 10 | That Mason — he carried it off me , you see . |
| 11 | Mm , they wo n't get it off me Joyce I 'll tell you |
| 12 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |
| 13 | If by any chance she catches it off me she 's going to have a really sore throat is n't she ? |
| 14 | I do n't know if you remember but ages ago , round about October time she borrowed some stuff for the Brownies , for erm , for Sian , Sian was going camping and she had n't got shorts or anything , so she borrowed it off me , I was thinking of Stacey starting , I wanted the t I 'm not bothered about the shorts , but I want the T-shirt and I 'm just gon na get Stacey the culottes and she can wear her shorts and the cardigan with it buy , when she first starts and then we could , Deana 's moving up to Guides this , so she can have that sweatshirt of er , I mean they 're nine pound |
| 15 | No you want it off me , that 's the whole idea of it . |
| 16 | They wear their professionalism as a decent gentleman will wear his suit : he will not let ruffians or circumstance tear it off him in the public gaze ; he will discard it when , and only when , he wills to do so , and this will invariably be when he is entirely alone . |
| 17 | Fitzsimmons , from the Floral Dance town of Helston in Cornwall , took it off him five years later . |
| 18 | Lee 's hid some gunpowder he swiped from under the Arches and I 'm gon na pinch it off him . ’ |
| 19 | Someone might have heard him talking in a pub about his sudden excess of money and decided to take it off him . |
| 20 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 21 | Andy clears a way through the undergrowth and we drag the man beneath the thorns and soft fruit of the brambles and the glossy leaves of the rhodies , into the green darkness ; his rucksack catches on the branches above and Andy takes it off him , pushing it ahead of us . |
| 22 | Ormanroyd onto Speedy again Phillips takes it off him and Forest get the throw in . |
| 23 | Black comes to take it off him . |
| 24 | Oh , well , you 'll just have to get it off him tomorrow . |
| 25 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
| 26 | ‘ The oven was so heavy I had to roll it off him , ’ said Paul . |
| 27 | I sort of popping upstairs , when I 'm here , I 'll take it off him , but just now he , he was walking along like |
| 28 | I 'll get it off him and then I 'll say |
| 29 | Tell you what if they 've got a hydraulic jack in there , several people have to buy it off him , the boys will buy it off |
| 30 | Well , say you want it off him then , then and then |