Example sentences of "i was [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry , I was dozing off over there . |
| 2 | Michael was after me to , but I was holding off . |
| 3 | I was holding off buying an away shirt , as I did n't want to wear a shirt that had never won a game . |
| 4 | I was living off my car savings for a while , but then they ran out . |
| 5 | but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely . |
| 6 | So every time I thought I was dropping off they 'd start . |
| 7 | Early next morning we approached Port Augusta where I was getting off . |
| 8 | The only person not wholly in sympathy with this plan was the bartender who complained that I was supposed to be off duty and that the passengers should come to the bar to buy the drinks themselves ; I was syphoning off his tips . |
| 9 | I was taking off my trousers when the radio operator came in and said someone was having an epileptic fit in one of the seismic camps . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't tell me you made that , too , while I was sleeping off my drunken stupor ? ’ |
| 11 | At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’ |
| 12 | It was awful , because although I 'd worn the dress all day , and stuck up for myself , I did feel bad about it ; they made me feel bad , sort of guilty , as if I was showing off my body . |
| 13 | I was showing off because I did n't have to go there any more . |
| 14 | I was showing off . |
| 15 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
| 16 | T. B. I was about to lock a fellow up at ten to the hour I was going off at . |
| 17 | My purple stripy barrel-bag — it was small , it 'd look as if I was going off to my gran 's for the weekend . |
| 18 | ‘ As I was going off at half-time , the lad who tackled me came up and said ‘ I 'm sorry , but it was only a little tap ’ . ’ |
| 19 | Yes , to be fair Jenny came in er , on Friday to talk to me about it , but I just did n't have time , I was rushing off to a meeting so I 've |