Example sentences of "it off as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Referee Rudy Battle had seen enough soon after and called it off as Dixon took a pounding . |
| 2 | and spend an afternoon cutting it off as it were |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I knocked it off as I ran past . |
| 6 | The radio was tuned to the BBC , to her surprise , but Rory switched it off as he got in . |
| 7 | So you 'd just write it as , I mean as it 's minus one , you can take it off as you go along , but it 's , sometimes it 'll be a minus six or something , so write it as two point nine nine squared minus one . |
| 8 | Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er . |
| 9 | She knew she would probably have to say something sooner or later , but she decided she would put it off as long as she possibly could . |
| 10 | It was time to begin hinting at her departure ; she 'd put it off as long as she could , but it had to be done . |
| 11 | No I want to get it off as soon as I can . |
| 12 | If they chop it off as well , I said they fucking blinding you like hell you 'd have |
| 13 | It 's as , what I 'm looking for is that the people who tick it off as being okay know what they are looking for , and that maybe that it 's the right number of boxes , it might be it 's the right grade of paper , whatever it happens to be that , that , if they tick it to say it 's right , then that 's what , that they have checked in some way . |