Example sentences of "i [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | My God , George thought , cringing , he wants me to kill off more of that fossilised brain . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't expect me to go off and spy in Russia , do you ? |
| 3 | So I opened this one with practised diffidence … and , if it brought neither emotional nor financial reward , it caused me to dash off an angry — ‘ Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — letter within the hour . |
| 4 | It was at this point I decided to modify the router fence with two aluminium blocks which allowed me to work off that face but beneath the area I wanted to machine away . |
| 5 | You nearly ripped me head off earlier . |
| 6 | I forgot to leave me penknife so she ripped me head off . |
| 7 | ‘ Little Eddie ( Eddie Carr , the manager ) got pretty upset and just told me to sod off . |
| 8 | If Stuart feels it 's necessary for me to come off I will accept his decision . |
| 9 | I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue . |
| 10 | I crept off down a little path through curling bracken . |
| 11 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 12 | From the loaf I have taken with me I tear off several pieces of crust and toss them one by one into the current , which carries them over the spot where the chub surfaced . |
| 13 | ‘ As from today ’ , he writes in his resignation letter , ’ I tear off the mask of studied ambiguity that your organization did give me twelve years ago . |
| 14 | I fought off the duvet and padded to the door , grabbing a towel from the bathroom to wrap around my waist and avoiding a cunning ankle-tap trip-and-throw move from Springsteen . |
| 15 | Finally , I round off with some of the social implications of the continued involvement of black youth in sport . |
| 16 | I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground . |
| 17 | ‘ Your mother is n't expecting me — and anyway , I think it would be best , under the circumstances , if I push off . |
| 18 | Each morning started off with me trying to find enough small change to get something to eat , and gradually , I sold off all my army kit at government surplus stores to finance my drinking . |
| 19 | So I got off and walked around for an hour or so , unseeing , my mind a total blank . |
| 20 | I got off , made my way round but there was no sign of her . |
| 21 | ‘ I got off … a full clip . |
| 22 | I got off my bicycle and stood there in Bromley High Street , next to the plaque that said ‘ H. G. Wells was born here ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I think I got off really lightly . |
| 24 | One afternoon , a week later , I decided the time had come to stop dithering like a Victorian maiden and to write to Bill , when I got off at ten that night , asking if no news was good news . |
| 25 | When I got off , instead of letter-writing , I accepted a last-minute party date . |
| 26 | It 's a testament to how captivating The Orb 's music is that I got off on this so much , completely alone and without recourse to anything stronger than the Institute 's lukewarm lager . |
| 27 | I got off my horse . |
| 28 | When the train stopped at some town in Kent I got off . |
| 29 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 30 | When the bus pulled to a halt and I got off I was relieved because I had finished school and I had the weekend ahead of me so I could enjoy myself . |