Example sentences of "write [pers pn] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | My organization will write me off as unreliable . ’ |
| 2 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 3 | As for Castle , do n't write him off just yet . |
| 4 | She could n't just write him off . |
| 5 | He irritated the hell out of her , and it would n't be so bad if she could write him off as being thoroughly detestable . |
| 6 | ‘ He was n't 100 per cent fit , but you could never write him off . |
| 7 | Let's write him off . |
| 8 | Sue has an army of researchers testing products and companies know that if her monthly magazine gives an item the thumbs-down , they can almost certainly write it off . |
| 9 | Middle-brow types might write it off as just a splatterfest — this year 's big event is the world premiere of Sam Raimi 's Army Of Darkness : Evil Dead 3 . |
| 10 | It is very important not to simply write it off completely as ‘ a bad day ’ just because things have gone wrong . |
| 11 | Be that as it may , I shall be philosophic if you prove unworthy of this not inconsiderable investment — I can always write it off as a little deficit financing — but if you wish to continue with our relationship you must be prepared to place some real trust in me . |