Example sentences of "[to-vb] it off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because the ‘ syntax ’ of theory , the logic on which it is based , is at the root of structures which have historically been used to trivialize , marginalize , and devalue the discourse of women , to pass it off at best as a mere fiction , and at worst as an illicit form of language use or one in poor taste , like the pun . |
| 2 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 3 | Even if they do , they tend to cordon it off from other feminist issues . |
| 4 | We 're gon na need more than twenty five cos we 're also gon na to send it off to one or two major er er certainly Peter and people like that I think . |
| 5 | I think it is best to suck it off with one of those tiny battery-powered vacuum cleaners you can get for about a tenner these days , as I did in this case . |
| 6 | Was I going to have it off with this woman and a couple of goats ? |
| 7 | For him to brush it off in such a way — I do n't know what would make him say things like that , he 's the sort of man I just would n't expect to have … |