Example sentences of "[verb] i [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want him to know we 've got divers aboard and I especially do n't want him to see me taking off with divers in the general direction of the Delos . |
| 2 | It 's records like this that make me pissed off with political thrashcore . |
| 3 | I mean I go off cleaning in a pair of tracksuit bottoms and her er |
| 4 | Two ninety nine , you want me to send off for that ? |
| 5 | My God , George thought , cringing , he wants me to kill off more of that fossilised brain . |
| 6 | My detector helped me to cream off the best of the finds , but I hope that fact will not deter you from carrying out your own investigations along the 499 remaining routes , if you can obtain a copy of the book . |
| 7 | Someone gives you with something to integrate and they say I started off I differentiated something |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't expect me to go off and spy in Russia , do you ? |
| 9 | erm , it just allows me to switch off . |
| 10 | ‘ He told me to lay off you , as you 'd saved his life , ’ she announced baldly . |
| 11 | The geezer at the recruiting office told me to fuck off . |
| 12 | ‘ I went into the cell and she told me to fuck off out of it . |
| 13 | Well maybe ages ago , but like you know when David told me to fuck off and die really seriously and I thought that 's nice . |
| 14 | When I went to the linesman he told me to clear off . |
| 15 | ‘ Little Eddie ( Eddie Carr , the manager ) got pretty upset and just told me to sod off . |
| 16 | As usual , the interesting people told me to piss off , and I ended up with the same old circle of publicity seekers . ’ |
| 17 | They told me to get off and try to get on the next train going north , ’ protested the younger of the two , flushing pink . |
| 18 | But this morning , I must say , I found it quite offensive and it may well have been the urge to demonstrate just how foolish his insinuation had been that caused me to set off up the footpath . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then , a long-standing commitment had seen me jet off abroad … to disaster . |
| 21 | Let me go off quietly . ’ |
| 22 | Now I only hope I get off to a winning start with Leeds . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I suppose if he had been wifeless you would have had me married off to him as soon as I was out of mourning ! ’ |
| 25 | You nearly ripped me head off earlier . |
| 26 | I forgot to leave me penknife so she ripped me head off . |
| 27 | ‘ If I said to you , ’ replies Anya wearily , ‘ that I wanted you to stop what you were doing , stop everything , and drive miles and miles , into the back of beyond , just to be with me , you 'd have told me to piss off . ’ |
| 28 | The thought of the pigeon sitting alone in its Bible-nest inside the big wheel , with black shadows all around and no one to talk to , set me scurrying off like the returning hunter . |
| 29 | ‘ Bless my soul , ’ said Calatin in a deep rumbling voice , ‘ bless my soul , I believe I dropped off for a while . |
| 30 | ‘ MI5 and MI6 will just tell me to piss off . |