Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] be [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | My manners are tearing off heads — |
| 2 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 3 | Should n't say things like that , I suppose , ’ he simpered , ‘ but all my friends are going off and doing it . |
| 4 | About 60 members and their friends are heading off to Whitehead for the day and anyone who would like to join them should contact Billy ( tel Belfast 423740 ) for further details . |
| 5 | And down King Edward 's docks all them boats was letting off their hooters . ’ |
| 6 | For a while supporters of the theory placed great faith in quasars — very distant galaxies whose cores are giving off colossal amounts of energy . |
| 7 | As usual his tactics were paying off . |
| 8 | Your trousers are falling off . |