Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] off for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday it went very well indeed , yes , I , we made forty four pounds , twenty nine pence on the day and then Betty went to Sawbridgeworth with some cushion covers and managed to sell them off for another five pounds so we got . |
| 2 | On top of that you get compensation which is a maximum of ten thousand pounds and depends on erm whether you 've got another job , erm whether you 've contributed towards your own dismissal , and I think th the tribunal would knock something off for that . |
| 3 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 4 | But his own doctor said he was not fit even for office work and signed him off for another six months because of ‘ obesity and hypertension ’ . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , some 300 potato farmers dumped 3,000 tons of potatoes on roads to the north western town of Pontivy , cutting it off for several hours . |
| 6 | She took herself off for long walks to ponder in the ice and wind and snow . |
| 7 | By 1982 , the bank sent him off for four months ' study at Harvard Business School . |
| 8 | I took myself off for long walks along the shore and into the hills every morning and did not return to Les Glycines until noon , when the three of us would drive in Otto 's traction avant to one of his favourite places for seafood . |
| 9 | This woman 's firm had totally ripped it off for one of the midmarket youth fashion houses . |
| 10 | I 've ticked you off for all these here . |
| 11 | The first I knew of this was when , seeing his bollard shape through the wrought-iron railings , my old humiliator Holland turned to me and said , placing predictably his malicious emphasis , ‘ There 's your ‘ guardian ’ , Wharton , come to take you off for some wanky-wanky , as usual . ’ |
| 12 | It 's a good idea , but why block it off for certain limited hours ? |
| 13 | It was partly for shame after all the talk and the things that the papers said , but as well as that they wanted to cut him off for good . ’ |