Example sentences of "do n't [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 | If she did n't swim off some of this electric energy building up inside her , there could be St Lucia 's first case of spontaneous combustion , she decided wryly . |
| 4 | I generally did n't drop off till four or five . |
| 5 | If the men did n't move off , the woman visitor would have had to remain completely veiled as well as masked . |
| 6 | My sister and I were investments that did n't pay off for the income that is derived from investment is unearned income : having made that initial payment , the investor need make no further effort . |
| 7 | But Lee did n't leave off . |
| 8 | There used to be a long table and the head used to sit at the end of this table and so to see that you did n't leave off working she used to get the table cloth and always be pulling this table straight . |
| 9 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 10 | So it 's probably just as well that I did n't leap off in your boat because er even in this climate I , I could have ended up pretty cold and miserable especially if I 'd fallen in . |
| 11 | Jack would be very much surprised if his friend would n't be living in one of those houses in Ploughman 's Lane like the one where he sometimes did electrical jobs with real old French furniture and real oil paintings and the kind of china you looked at but did n't eat off . |
| 12 | Oh , did n't snap off , Saturday we was out at M F I Saturday . |
| 13 | It did n't show off his teeth , but it told Duroc a lot more about the Op 's character . |
| 14 | Sometimes the bus did n't set off until nearly four o'clock . |
| 15 | Yeah he 's alright , he 's , he probably did n't set off |
| 16 | Actually she was a former girlfriend , and he had n't exactly visited her , because upon arriving he discovered she was living with an Algerian rug merchant — she had somehow neglected to mention this in her postcards — who had pulled out a scimitar and threatened to send the Swede home with his goolies in a sandwich bag if he did n't clear off instantly . |
| 17 | That was the dose , a and I want to stress also that I did n't start off at eighty milligrams , I started off at two and half which I think is important and |
| 18 | She also had the run of the library and she could of course go out , as long , he warned her with a sardonic look , as she did n't wander off with strange men . |
| 19 | I knew when to put the tape on , I could start it while she was in the bathroom , she did n't wander off while it was recording , and the machine could be underneath and out of sight . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ My alarm clock did n't go off . ’ |
| 21 | Well , I thought it did n't go off too badly … ’ |
| 22 | Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’ |
| 23 | Well ours did n't go off |
| 24 | It did n't go off on itself did it Rose ? |
| 25 | The snow did n't slack off for 36 hours . |
| 26 | The collar did n't come off until the following day . |
| 27 | L B did n't come off so well in another encounter he had with Gilbert in 1928 . |
| 28 | Nick Thompson , a 28-year-old mechanic of Morpeth , said : ‘ The idea was quite good but it just did n't come off . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Straw — who was with his children William , 11 , and Charlotte , 10 — said : ‘ It 's a miracle the train did n't come off . |
| 30 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |