Example sentences of "off for good " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before long , the company found itself in the midst of the early 1980s ' recession , an event that , by Mr Garner 's own admission , nearly finished TI off for good . |
| 2 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 3 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 4 | It was partly for shame after all the talk and the things that the papers said , but as well as that they wanted to cut him off for good . ’ |
| 5 | But the school of Tolkien was still notable in creating a large , sudden surface ripple in intellectual life : a surprising return to a sense of the supernatural and the transcendent that modern technology and modern philosophy , between them , were supposed to have finished off for good . |
| 6 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 7 | ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments . |
| 8 | I would like the Bill to contain a first offence penalty of a six-month custodial sentence — with no remission and no time off for good behaviour — in a properly funded and managed institution . |
| 9 | With several newly qualified teachers and many more awaiting initiation , they literally ‘ Swung ’ all over the place — adult institutes , local church halls , fetes , in fact in or on anything that would give them a few square feet of space ; one Essex teacher even did a two year S-T-R-E-T-C-H in H.M Prison , Holloway and got time off for good behaviour ( a class of course ! ) . |
| 10 | I would birch them like they do on the Isle of Man , and not give them time off for good behaviour . |
| 11 | Steve White could have finished Wolves off for good if he 'd scored but a 2-0 victory is just what the doctor ordered … |
| 12 | But I was hoping it was off for good er but it did n't work out that way cos of the weather . |