Example sentences of "[to-vb] off and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One young woman stated that it was impossible for her to come off and stay off while her partner was still using : |
| 2 | So what if they tell you to sod off and mind your own business ? |
| 3 | Every time she mentioned babies and what it would be like to have their own one day , Stephen changed the subject or yet another crisis loomed which he had to dash off and deal with . |
| 4 | Japanese banks will continue to write off and provide against masses of doubtful debts for several years to come . |
| 5 | ‘ The answer is to stand off and let him play in front of you , rather than wrestling his way round the back . ’ |
| 6 | Terry Mulloy , chairman of the governors , who has a five-year-old son at Lady Jane Grey , says that if children , while being taught reading in a small group , got bored they would be allowed to wander off and do something else . |
| 7 | There existed at that time , a real threat of an invasion of the British Isles by the French forces under Napoleon , so militia groups were formed and Martello Towers were erected around the more vulnerable coast line , to ward off and give warning of any sign of an invading fleet . |
| 8 | There was a large gap beneath Mildred 's door , and she decided to set off and find someone to help her . |
| 9 | The Russians ' forte is pageantry , yet somehow , on these rare sightings in the West , the gaudiness seemed to set off and magnified the melancholy and finesse of their leading dancers . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I was told in effect to bugger off and stop being a pest . |
| 11 | I could tell him when his crown 's starting to fall off and remind him of the royal plural — and , well , lots of things ! |
| 12 | Although warning signs shout at you not to cross these fragile constructions , as you 're bound to fall off and die and do n't say they did n't tell you so , you 'd have to be a boring old git not to want to do a balancing act over them for thrills . |
| 13 | She turned away impatiently , determined to swim off and leave him to it , but he slid into the water beside her and grasped her wet arm . |
| 14 | They wanted to go off and cover Greenham Common and Sizewell and the radiation in Australia like everybody else . |
| 15 | You had to go off and make his nosh did n't you ? |
| 16 | has having enough opportunity to go off and make a second marriage , which I do n't deny them but they must accept their responsibilities . |
| 17 | Though an individual pupil may be in his fourth-year class as far as the administration of the school goes , and as far as concerns his social activities or his out-of-school interests , the school must be prepared for him to go off and study the syllabus required for his graded tests alongside people who are not in his own year . |
| 18 | And , as the rain got worse during the rounds I thought someone was going to have to go off and build an ark . |
| 19 | Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again . |
| 20 | erm if , if you know you , you felt you wanted to go off and do th start the professional social work training well that would probably be alright . |
| 21 | and we could maybe find someone else to go off and do it with |
| 22 | First of all , presumably , you lose your normal time structure of having to go off and do something on a regular basis . |
| 23 | I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll , |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't expect me to go off and spy in Russia , do you ? |
| 25 | ‘ We had built up the kind of company my father could leave to go off and direct a film for five months without worrying , ’ says Brian . |
| 26 | Sometimes I 'd have to go off and strip off to fight straight after a caddying session , off the course , drop the bag and on to the fairground . |
| 27 | But though Minton , in turn , often treated him like a mere house-boy , giving him money to go off and buy the food which he afterwards cooked , Ricky carried out his duties with considerable charm . |
| 28 | In other words , she had to go off and find places for herself and then fly back to me . |
| 29 | Mr Clinton 's February budget foreshadowed $16.4 billion of unspecified savings over five years , and the Treasury department was told to go off and find them . |
| 30 | The insurers now have groups of approved repairers and it is often easier for a customer to use those , than to go off and find their own repairer . |