Example sentences of "[pron] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , Jenkins 's prognosis of Thursday morning ( ‘ I would put no-one off the official odds of 5–1 against England ’ ) might just be construed as tipping an England win — if they won . |
| 2 | Mountain Rescue get little trouble from ramblers , since their rambles rarely take them off a bus route , and you can sometimes spot them at the sides of the road , gazing into a hedgerow as their leader tells them a little about the history of couch grass . |
| 3 | It was like pulling them off a duplicating machine , and after a while , when we realised we had little or no chance of catching anything bigger , it became so boring we never went again . |
| 4 | That 'e 'd nicked them off a woman 's washing-line in Brixton . |
| 5 | You must tell them off every time they do something you do n't want them too . ’ |
| 6 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 7 | In Ninfania , no one threw away the feather of a bird or the peel of a fruit or the seed from a melon , let alone such durable items as the buttons and hooks and eyes from a worn-out item of underwear — I 've seen you still snip them off an old bra , even today , and drop them into a little box in your sewing basket . |
| 8 | Put them off the scent . ’ |
| 9 | I hope that this will clarify the situation for your readers while in no way putting them off the certified training scheme . |
| 10 | That put them off the scent . |
| 11 | ‘ I decided to put them off the scent . ’ |
| 12 | When I lost my first serve in the first set , it threw me off a bit . |
| 13 | So that put me off a bit . |
| 14 | But like , he even said it , he said to me when I was drunk and I , and it pissed me off a little bit actually cos like , he goes to me you know like I I was saying about it and he goes erm well she was the one who wanted it all casual and everything , and I said oh yeah . |
| 15 | Well it put me off a little bit |
| 16 | But the fact that , in the face of the overpowering evidence against the addiction , he had finally managed to give up all that time ago , combined with the fact that the pain was in the shoulder blade and not the chest , had contributed to putting me off the scent . |
| 17 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 18 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |
| 19 | And he put me off the |
| 20 | It it 's er really put me off the track there , I 'm sorry I . |
| 21 | But PC Jobson , a policeman for seven years , said : ‘ This wo n't put me off the job . |
| 22 | ‘ General life is structured to f— you off every day . |
| 23 | But if you were playing with a drummer who liked to give it some wallop , you 'd soon be lost in terms of volume , and that would piss you off a bit . |
| 24 | was it , was it , was it because he just er turned up , was it , was it , did that throw you off a bit ? |
| 25 | I do n't like any of them and then when you 've seen them all day long it puts you off a bit do n't like none of the |
| 26 | Of course at school they always tell you that you should do a secretarial course , which was absolutely dreadful , and they put you off the idea of a career in the theatre just as much as they can . |
| 27 | You might make sales , you 'll certainly make contacts and it probably wo n't put you off the world of TV forever . |
| 28 | Let none of these warnings and precautions put you off the adventure and excitement of collecting in this field if you have an inclination that way . |
| 29 | Have I put you off the idea of knitting for profit ? |
| 30 | ‘ Is n't it possible , though , that the other girl could be a hundred kilometres from here and that this one was dumped here to put you off the scent ? ’ |