Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 2 | Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area . |
| 3 | Diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya had been broken off since that year . |
| 4 | As there was very little chance of her being got off at that season she was advertised for sale . |
| 5 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 6 | Some writers probably set off with that idea in the back of their minds , but up to now Hannah has disarmed them all . |
| 7 | If it was clearly intended that the ex gratia sum should include an element to cover the basic award , it will be set off against that award , but not otherwise . |
| 8 | I 'm pissed off with that thing stuck up me nose . |
| 9 | I thought you 'd taken off in that spaceship of yours . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Fenney also has been ordered to comply with a landscaping scheme ; close the centre by 9pm every evening ; and make sure that his floodlights are switched off by that time . |
| 11 | instead of growing up straight look one of those things has broke off on that Alec |