Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll send one of my men with you , to see you do n't run off . ’ |
| 2 | You can sit in front of me , and I 'll see you do n't fall off . |
| 3 | Alice bought a hot water bottle from a retailer which did not give off any heat . |
| 4 | In the example , no claim in tort would lie if the hot water bottle did not give off enough heat . |
| 5 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Lieutenant Denis O'Flaherty and Trooper Sherington made a determined effort to reach the warehouse ( 'F' ) with Peter Young , who saw three stick grenades flung towards him in quick succession ; the first two missed and the third did not go off . |
| 7 | Baltaci , noting the conflict between the fact that the medrese had apparently already been founded by 870 and the fact that Mecdi says that Molla Husrev did not go off to Bursa to found the medrese until 877 , suggests that the was written in anticipation of the actual building of the medrese . |
| 8 | ‘ Working , ’ she said briefly , and turned to her papa , who was , for once , at a loss , both his women against him , Sally-Anne in an unlikely alliance with her mother , who had put a protective arm around her daughter 's shoulders , which her daughter did not throw off impatiently in her usual brusque manner . |
| 9 | Before she could comment he made the point that people did not switch off anger once they had extricated themselves from the risk of further suffering , especially not if they had leisure to reflect on injustice . |
| 10 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 11 | Astonishingly , Pound did not break off relations . |
| 12 | I was past putting the tent up , celebrating and wondering why my arms did not drop off . |
| 13 | He did not start off as a rebel seeking out Peripatetics to confound . |
| 14 | ‘ Fine , ’ Rosemary replied , but when , unusually , she appeared to have nothing else she wanted to chat about , yet did not ring off , Leith did a swift two-and-two calculation , and the answer she got told her that Rosemary wanted , in her parents ' absence , to talk about Travis . |
| 15 | GKR 's growth in terms of fee income and number of consultants , although showing modest progress in the 1970s , did not take off dramatically in this particular decade . |
| 16 | The ramshackle eight-seater at first did not take off because of a storm after which a pilot could not be found . |
| 17 | When people set off in a boat to prove whether the Earth was round , they did not fall off so that proves that the Earth is flat , but people just say it is round . |
| 18 | The DHSS did not cut off his benefit , deciding that this was not what most people meant by a husband-and-wife relationship . |
| 19 | In those days before the National Health Service , one did not run off to the doctor except in real emergencies ; but , at this juncture , my mother , noticing that I showed unusual signs of debility , urged me to seek medical advice . |
| 20 | He talked of becoming party leader ‘ for life ’ , and when it did not come off , he sacked the Prime Minister , Mr Ion Gheorghe Maurer , after 14 years in the job . |
| 21 | A pity , say analysts , that it did not come off : America 's biggest-ever bank merger could have led to a barrelful of such deals — and not before time . |
| 22 | Mike [ Foot ] said wryly that if , as Harold Lever said , we had only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding catastrophe , we had better work out a contingency plan in case that chance did not come off . |
| 23 | Holden was missing for 18 minutes and Reid admitted : ‘ We took a calculated gamble by not replacing Rick — and it did not come off . ’ |
| 24 | His gamble on the ability of industry to produce improved living conditions before the peasantry and proletariat found the burden intolerable , did not come off . |
| 25 | She is a fine singer in her usual idioms , but her inclusion here was a bold experiment which did not come off . |
| 26 | Those committed to self-report and victimization surveys do not start off asking the most important question of all : ‘ what is serious crime ? ’ |
| 27 | Do not show off |
| 28 | Do not switch off . |
| 29 | He says that automatic alarms that warn of radioactivity on clothes have been ‘ arbitrarily ’ adjusted so that the alarms do not go off too often . |
| 30 | Astute politicians do not go off half cocked : they test the water , collect their facts , identify the support systems , undermine the opposition 's case , find the coalitions , understand the ‘ influencers ’ or the roles that carry weight . |