Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [vb pp] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I tended to stick with how things had been ; it was more comforting to think I 'd be able to pick up where I 'd left off . |
| 2 | Perhaps one day I would go back to London , and take up my career where I had left off . |
| 3 | I sling a few carcasses to prowling cats , and I get told off for it . |
| 4 | So it 's unusual and I get told off for giving you a choice but what do you think ? |
| 5 | I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of |
| 6 | I 'd dithered , and I 'd got tired and I 'd gone off and been |
| 7 | I was brought up in Albert Street near the Hibs ground , my whole family came from that area , my dad used to sneak into the ground at night to play football on the grass at Easter Road , and I got sent off in my own backyard . |
| 8 | And I got told off for it . |
| 9 | erm and I 've sent off for some loose fitting ones |
| 10 | Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident . |
| 11 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 12 | There was no fire and I had switched off long before the port wing touched the ground , I saw him hare across the airfield diagonally opposed to the direction of the hangar , and indeed the aircraft , and at the same time he was haring away towards Findhorn . |
| 13 | If I get pissed off now I might just do ! |
| 14 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |
| 15 | So here it 's something very like that I finished up with I 've if I 'd started off with that I would have finished up with twice what |
| 16 | I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere . |
| 17 | We attempt nothing in this school , and even if I 've bitten off more than we can chew here , it 's better to try — ’ |
| 18 | I 'm beginning to wonder if I 've bitten off more than I can chew . ’ |
| 19 | If I feel brassed off I bloody well will . |
| 20 | This causes him to fold down the top half of the newspaper , to see if I have set off , and to lose his place . |
| 21 | But I 've stopped off at a street market on the way over for socks and shirts and thin garish underpants . |
| 22 | Limited which seemed mostly to involve advertising and but I 'd written off and told them their candidate was . |
| 23 | Friday : ‘ I intended to go to Ponty but I have cooled off a bit now . |
| 24 | Soon after I had moved off , a massive column of dust appeared in the east , headed by a battered green lorry , the sort the Eighth Army might have lost . |
| 25 | I stop at my usual vantage point and even before I have switched off the engine I see the otter . |