Example sentences of "[pron] off as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This puts them off as they are afraid of making fools of themselves . ’ |
| 2 | A small jeweller in Switzerland , who for years had made good profits by flagrantly copying de Chavigny designs , using inferior stones , low-carat metals and cheap workmanship , and then passing them off as de Chavigny originals through an impenetrable network of shady dealers and retailers , found its bank was suddenly very glad to extend credit for new workshops and an expansion programme . |
| 3 | Tick them off as they appear — until you can call Diamond full house . |
| 4 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 6 | One very common technique that people use is making lists of things to be done , and physically crossing them off as and when they are completed . |
| 7 | There was a practice at one time — no doubt it still continues in certain quarters — of collecting the rootstocks in which implanted buds had failed , bundling them up and selling them off as hedging . |
| 8 | No I thought you was you were reading them off as you |
| 9 | In order to keep things that way , the agency was obliged to keep track of other US intelligence operations that might prove embarrassing and to head them off as necessary . |
| 10 | He shrugged them off as he would soft core porno . |
| 11 | He did n't like to think he was the kind of person who took things from strangers in pubs and then passed them off as presents to girls he was supposed to love . |
| 12 | Blocks them off as well yeah , and it comes up one channel in use when they cleared out card down , it clears the card so you can take it out I do n't , they come down three channels in use , two channels in use , one channel in use . |
| 13 | And she used to do them all , I mean , machine hemmings and and finish them off as she calls them , you know , so Con , oh yes she could of . |
| 14 | Then you can just chop them off as they become constants . |
| 15 | Am I in bondage , that you think to parcel me off as you see fit ? |
| 16 | Equally , it is an offence for a private company to pass itself off as being a public company and vice versa . |
| 17 | You want the lord of the manor to come and carry you off as his long lost daughter , is that it ? ’ |
| 18 | Shaved this Lieutenant Sergeant Major eyebrow off when he was sleeping one night , and he was in front of the , the Colonel Chief and Regional so what he did , he , cos it , it took , taken ages , took about three months to grow back , so what he did was he shaved the other one off as well |
| 19 | I bet you 'll find that he turned everything off as well . ’ |
| 20 | I 'll hold her off as long as I can . |
| 21 | We 've put her off as best we can . ’ |
| 22 | She prided herself on her strength — and yet this man , who had already proven he could stand up to her verbally , was holding her off as she if she were a feather . |
| 23 | When his secretary rings , put him off as long as you decently can . |
| 24 | The Floridante Overture nearly throws him off as he takes the corners with no evidence of concern for his own safety , but the overall effect is thrilling as he leads us on an absorbing and unexpected journey with an orchestra and cast consisting , in the main , of unknown and unpronounceable Hungarians . |
| 25 | Even before he started at Rangers , Brian Clough had written him off as being ‘ too nice ’ for the job . |
| 26 | He irritated the hell out of her , and it would n't be so bad if she could write him off as being thoroughly detestable . |
| 27 | Referee Rudy Battle had seen enough soon after and called it off as Dixon took a pounding . |
| 28 | and spend an afternoon cutting it off as it were |
| 29 | They present a general argument which sees violence as resulting from a widespread reluctance by the legal authorities to invoke potentially effective legislation , and tacitly to endorse such misbehaviour by passing it off as ‘ picket-line horseplay ’ or exuberance . |
| 30 | Its length is approximately 100 metres and whilst if the axis had run through any part of its length I would have shrugged it off as coincidence again , the fact that it intersects the relatively tiny west end of the barrow suggests a high degree of precision alignment . |