Example sentences of "we have [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If he came back and found we 'd made off by ourselves , he 'd go back to Tara and tell them we 'd reneged on the bargain , ’ finished Snodgrass . |
| 2 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 3 | Let's say we 'd started off with three X |
| 4 | What must we have started off with here to finish up with with that ? |
| 5 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 6 | We grew very rapidly until the last five years or so , since when we 've levelled off in size , but erm the range of our activities in various countries abroad and indeed in Britain , has continued to grow . |
| 7 | Er so we 've started off with a number of relatively nitpicking erm erm points . |
| 8 | Twelve times integral of X squared D X well if we 'd have started off with X squared we 'd could have we would have if we 've started off with X cubed we would have finished up with three X cubed |
| 9 | we 've paid off in two years , Karen . |
| 10 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 11 | We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns . |
| 12 | ‘ And why the devil we have to rush off at a moment 's notice , I do n't know … ’ |
| 13 | We have to get off after three weeks . |