Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was brought up in Albert Street near the Hibs ground , my whole family came from that area , my dad used to sneak into the ground at night to play football on the grass at Easter Road , and I got sent off in my own backyard . |
| 2 | The bad yellow-eyed woman made me take my toothbrush in case I got carted off to pokey . |
| 3 | And I got told off for it . |
| 4 | I got told off by the ref — I was a bit wild then — and Ian began moaning as though he was crying . |
| 5 | I got told off for calling it Pakistan . |
| 6 | ‘ I sometimes thought I got fobbed off , but everybody is out there campaigning and competing for the money , ’ said Ms Hinchliffe . |
| 7 | I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of |
| 8 | I 'd dithered , and I 'd got tired and I 'd gone off and been |
| 9 | I 'd gone off of it until we opened that one on Sunday when you came over and I 'd finished it by Tuesday , I was getting quite hooked on it |
| 10 | Then suddenly the bike stopped and before I knew what was happening , I 'd fallen off . |
| 11 | Limited which seemed mostly to involve advertising and but I 'd written off and told them their candidate was . |
| 12 | I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere . |
| 13 | You thought I 'd got off with him for fuck 's sake ! |
| 14 | So I tended to stick with how things had been ; it was more comforting to think I 'd be able to pick up where I 'd left off . |
| 15 | So here it 's something very like that I finished up with I 've if I 'd started off with that I would have finished up with twice what |
| 16 | ‘ Sorry , I 'd drifted off . |
| 17 | because , well I get paid off when the receivers come in , I was about three month out before I got sent back for and er the starting wage was , I think we actually got a wee rise , I think we were the only section that |
| 18 | I get told off by my girlfriend because I wake up in the morning and the first thing I say is , ‘ Flippin' heck , have you sent those newsletters off yet ? . ’ |
| 19 | I sling a few carcasses to prowling cats , and I get told off for it . |
| 20 | So it 's unusual and I get told off for giving you a choice but what do you think ? |
| 21 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |
| 22 | If I get pissed off now I might just do ! |
| 23 | Why do you think it is that erm that the reputation of the flats has been er I suppose gone off and I mean early on back in the early seventies , erm the flats were quite an attractive place to come to , it was n't even that easy to get on the flats . |
| 24 | If I feel brassed off I bloody well will . |
| 25 | Greg , a 24-year-old trainee solicitor , says : ‘ I feel ripped off . |
| 26 | An inspector reading humanities at Oxford , told me : ‘ I felt cut off , with no contact back at work . |
| 27 | I felt cut off , a fish mouthing behind glass . |
| 28 | I know that er the seminar which I attended sparked off quite a lot of lively er debate . |
| 29 | Soon after I had moved off , a massive column of dust appeared in the east , headed by a battered green lorry , the sort the Eighth Army might have lost . |
| 30 | The next step was selection for the World Cup squad : ‘ Actually , I was lying in bed with ‘ flu on the Sunday morning of a squad session from which I had called off when Bill Hogg , the SRU secretary , telephoned to say that Iain Milne had been forced to withdraw . |