Example sentences of "off my [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | They accidentally , on purpose , cut off my water or the electricity ? ’ |
| 2 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 3 | I sha n't be a moment finishing off my share of him , and then you can have the bones . " |
| 4 | This being that you cut off my head at the same time . ’ |
| 5 | Stops me going off my head , anyway ! |
| 6 | … and bit off my head . |
| 7 | I take off my jumper and stand in my tank top , sipping a whiskey I have been bought . |
| 8 | I was n't at Askham Grange for very long , just to finish off my sentence . |
| 9 | Two years on and £1,000 poorer ( I 've had to foot his costs to buy him off my land ) the lawyers have patched up some sort of agreement . |
| 10 | Now I 'll get off my bottom and get it for you . ’ |
| 11 | I step off my chipboard kneeler on to a joist in order to slide the three-foot square board up near the eaves in the corner . |
| 12 | I also had high hopes of the Electricity Board , particularly as I had taken to cutting ‘ Miss ’ off my meter reading cards with scissors and it was one of those cards you are n't allowed to cut or mutilate as it upsets the computer . |
| 13 | I had to take off my belt , my tie and my shoelaces , had my photograph and my fingerprints taken . |
| 14 | He was shocked when I took off my shirt in the street to get some damn sun on my tits . |
| 15 | I have been allowed to take off my shirt and am working in just shorts and plimsolls . |
| 16 | I pulled off my shirt and threw it beyond the woodpile . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm taking off my shirt . ’ |
| 18 | I hope she ai n't far cos I really want to change my trousers and take off my mac . |
| 19 | Do you think I could go to the powder room and take off my girdle ? ’ she said . |
| 20 | Liz is said to have commented : ‘ I 'm sorry Raquel is so hard up she has to do a film that rips off my life . |
| 21 | where I burn off my life without blossoming . |
| 22 | I went in as usual , took off my greatcoat and tunic and tie and made some small pancakes and dipped them in boiling fat — used to take me a quarter of an hour every night . |
| 23 | When I switch off my lamp I switch on me , and vice versa , with no trouble at all . |
| 24 | I got off my bicycle and stood there in Bromley High Street , next to the plaque that said ‘ H. G. Wells was born here ’ . |
| 25 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |
| 26 | ‘ Would it help if I took off my tie ? ’ he asked . |
| 27 | In other words , I took off my tie and transferred money , keys and a pack of Piccadilly No . |
| 28 | Guy supplied grimly , dropping a possessive kiss on her mouth , ‘ Since I arrived in St Lucia for a spell of solitary soul-searching , and an evil-tempered harpy with a mop of red hair and no clothes on leapt off my bed and started calling me rude names … ’ |
| 29 | I want you off my bed . ’ |
| 30 | Sometimes I do n't even bother to take off my gown , which is all smeared and tyretracked . |