Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [vb infin] off [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I might start off the day with lots of intentions and by the end of it I 'm so fagged out I just collapse . |
2 | ‘ But I overhear people 's conversations , and sometimes I 'll get off a bus and follow them if I 'm interested ; or I 'll stand beside people pretending to be looking at something or reading , but actually listening to them . |
3 | I remember that it could whack a fist-sized stone well over the creek and twenty metres or more into the undulating ground on the mainland , and once I got keyed into its natural rhythm I could send off a shot every two seconds . |
4 | I feel I could pull off the cruelly applied latex prosthetics and find there one of those untroubled faces from the frontispiece of Country Life or Tatler . |
5 | Sometimes I could stave off an attack by taking two every four hours . |
6 | ‘ I 'd pay off the school fees first if I were you . ’ |
7 | If I was in their shoes I 'd hold off a couple of days . |
8 | So I can finish off the , I want to finish off the letter now . |
9 | Now that Jeff 's in the picture , it means I can back off a little and stop feeling quite so responsible for Silvia . ’ |