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 . ’
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