Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question arises : is there something about such jobs that directly causes the people who do them to go off sick more than others ? |
| 2 | My God , George thought , cringing , he wants me to kill off more of that fossilised brain . |
| 3 | Give them a really good soak in aquarium disinfectant before you add them to kill off any fungi which may be present . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I bounced off fat people in double-breasted pinstriped suits , and strode beside young execs and briefcase-bearing , silked women , into the World Trade Centre . |
| 8 | I ate off tiny silver plates , with silver knives and forks . |
| 9 | Maybe — I cut off that line of thinking . |
| 10 | I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg . |
| 11 | The sooner I get off this Street and onto the box the better . |
| 12 | I broke off that silly line of thought and retraced my mental steps . |
| 13 | I started off that way in the Theatre , but like most , you have ( by force of necessity ) to be able to turn your hand to whatever is needed of you . |
| 14 | I started off smoking hash ; from that I went to acid , LSD , speed , things like that . |
| 15 | For what it is worth , I brought off this trick — something of interest , I should suppose , only to other writers … |
| 16 | You ca n't concentrate on the music because you 're thinking , ‘ Okay , I turn off this button , then I have to press this thing , pull out the cord … ’ and then the tech hands me the guitar … |
| 17 | Our only means of escape is alcohol , and I keep off that pretty much ; but I ca n't say I blame chaps for getting drunk ( apart from the fact that it does n't do you any good ) , for few of them take any interest in books . |
| 18 | Recently on holiday in Southern Turkey I went off one sweltering afternoon to make a watercolour sketch of the harbour . |
| 19 | When I went off that morning Bill did not recognize me . |
| 20 | With appointed ‘ judges ’ and a news reporter on the ground at the Flying Field , Dick and I took off one Saturday morning with petrol tank full , and spiralled up into ‘ the great blue yonder ’ . |
| 21 | Everybody is making the bodies real small , but I scaled down a teeny bit and what I took off that way , I added in thickness , so it 's fat , like a Les Paul , so you can get that big , beefy sound . |
| 22 | He waited while I tore off one of the orange-coloured tickets , then another one . |
| 23 | I have a special calendar , and I cross off each day when I go to bed , and then I lie there and think of you . |
| 24 | Algy and I live off baked beans , ’ Len said . |
| 25 | Almost sobbing , I dragged off one of my rings , automatically adjusted the stone , and tossed it into the path of the creature . |
| 26 | We 're giving away 120 tickets to see the band live on their UK tour which kicks off next month . |
| 27 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 28 | Tears , weeping , sobbing , shaking and reliving the experiences which triggered off these powerful feelings , leave the person being counselled exhausted after a session but peaceful , and often with a new perception of the world . |
| 29 | All this explains the rather unusual haste of New Zealand to secure the 1994 South African tour at the expense of the announced short tour to the Republic this summer which triggered off considerable controversy . |
| 30 | If the curve is steep the implication is that an increase in government spending increases income , which increases the transactions demand for money , which increases interest rates , which chokes off private investment . |