Example sentences of "'re [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wh w when testing a new drug , you 're trading off th th the the level of testing you can do , it takes about a hundred millions pounds to produce a new drug , it takes about ten years from test tube to getting a licence . |
| 2 | So they 're all , they 're trading off their gains from economies of scale , right , with erm , variability of , of income that may result from sort of , putting all their eggs in one basket , so diversification is the main way in which farmers cope er , with an uncertain environment . |
| 3 | If you 're caught off balance by a particularly audacious act or challenge you must bounce back and not let on how you feel inside . |
| 4 | If you 're caught off balance by a particularly audacious act or challenge you must bounce back and not let on how you feel inside . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , imagine you are about to confess you 're knocking off Arthur Evans 's wife and suddenly his great hand comes down on your shoulder . |
| 6 | So they 're going off their trolley |
| 7 | Hello there … this week Summer Sport has brought us out to Herefordshire … we 're at Mansel Lacy … we 're going off road racing … so away we go … |
| 8 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 9 | No he goes , Kim , no no hold on , he goes but erm , he reckons you 're right drifting apart and everything , and that you 're going off him and everything . |
| 10 | Andy Dorin , Orkney officer for Scottish Natural Heritage , said last night from one of the rescue vessels : ‘ We 're lying off the southern tip of South Ronaldsay and the whales are in sight several hundred metres ahead of us . |
| 11 | You 're getting off hydrogen . |
| 12 | Right , if you 're cutting off their , their lifeline to development , you 're probably sowing the seeds of er , of disaster further down the line . |
| 13 | ‘ You mean , ’ observed Tim sagaciously , ‘ she does n't know you 're bunking off school . ’ |
| 14 | If you 're charging off er an M S two on a twenty four pound an hour |
| 15 | so that 's fine like if you 're coming off a dual carriageway , maybe you 'll see that |
| 16 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 17 | How much money they 're taking off you ! |
| 18 | ‘ Look , Jerry , we 're rushed off our feet . |
| 19 | We 're slipping off the map . |
| 20 | If you do n't tension the boom bang when you 're sailing off wind , the boom will just lift , the sail roll twist and you 'll get bags of uncontrollable power . |
| 21 | and they thought , they said then it was connected with the accident , erm because it , you know , she was in such a bad way , and , the other fellow was to blame , I think he 'd been drinking , I 'm not sure , but they 're claiming off the insurance and they reckon she 's gon na be entitled to around a hundred thousand pounds compensation , because , not only has she had these physical injuries , but because she had a knock on the head it 's also affecting her mental state |
| 22 | Erm , I think it 's a false economy to cut on maintenance , you only leave trouble there , you 're putting off the problem for our successors . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's tough to justify a sponsorship when you 're laying off people ’ , said Chris Conover , manager of international communications and administrator of the arts programme . |
| 24 | They 're laying off more like . |