Example sentences of "they off as " in BNC.

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1 This puts them off as they are afraid of making fools of themselves . ’
2 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 .
3 Tick them off as they appear — until you can call Diamond full house .
4 ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said .
5 ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 No I thought you was you were reading them off as you
9 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 .
10 He shrugged them off as he would soft core porno .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Then you can just chop them off as they become constants .
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