Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] off as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She prided herself on her strength — and yet this man , who had already proven he could stand up to her verbally , was holding her off as she if she were a feather . |
| 7 | But in my panic stricken state I still remember the advice to face forwards with feet stretched out in front to fend off the rocks , kicking myself off as they come rapidly one after the other . |
| 8 | and spend an afternoon cutting it off as it were |
| 9 | No I thought you was you were reading them off as you |
| 10 | 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 . |