Example sentences of "[pron] off [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ It 's more satisfying to make an arrest but it 's more practical to put someone off because while you 're in the back room charging someone , other shoplifters are having a field day in the store . ’ |
| 2 | I took them off before I went through the floor into the dock . ’ |
| 3 | He 'll have to show people round at low tide , and get them off before it turns . |
| 4 | Advocate Depute Elizabeth Jarvie said that Graeme immediately went along the track where he found two trolleys on the line and pulled them off before the sleeper arrived . |
| 5 | They attacked him , but he was able to hold them off until help arrived . |
| 6 | I might get someone to try to keep them off until we 've finished carrying . |
| 7 | Frost ai n't good for plants , it turns them black and kills them off if you ai n't careful , but I reckon grass must be OK . |
| 8 | Turn them off if you have to answer the door or the phone . |
| 9 | Unfortunately she was as bitchy as she was beautiful , lashing out with teeth and hooves at any human who came near her , and bucking them off if they tried to get on her back . |
| 10 | But there 's two ways of getting them off if they do latch on to you , one is to burn them off with a cigarette or a match and the other way is to use rock salt , and if you put rock salt on them they then just come off so that 's a little bit erm more humane for the leeches but it depends what you feel about them really as to whether you want to give them another chance . |
| 11 | ‘ I think Maurice hoped to buy them off if the letter did n't satisfy them , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 12 | ‘ Just chuck them off if they 're a nuisance , ’ said Dyson , stretched out in the least broken armchair with the Observer and the Sunday Times . |
| 13 | ‘ Do fling them off if they 're getting obstreperous , Bob . |
| 14 | ‘ They pushed me to the floor and stuck what I thought was the gun to my knee-caps and threatened to blow them off if I moved . ’ |
| 15 | He should have left the bloody things off because they 're gon na have to take them off if they have their carpets down and might have to have something planed off them or something might n't they ? |
| 16 | This puts them off as they are afraid of making fools of themselves . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Tick them off as they appear — until you can call Diamond full house . |
| 19 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | No I thought you was you were reading them off as you |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He shrugged them off as he would soft core porno . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then you can just chop them off as they become constants . |
| 30 | A padlock was where the laces should have been to stop anyone taking them off when alone in the middle of the corridor . |