Example sentences of "i [verb] off a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me . |
| 2 | ‘ A week last Wednesday I dropped off a load of wood here on my way to Windsor races . |
| 3 | Having made Winter Marsh from the Crouch I anchored off a shallow bay and rowed ashore in the dinghy . |
| 4 | I prised off a scab and gave it the tongue test . |
| 5 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 6 | Thus I Broke Off a Golden Branch , which incorporates Croatian folk melody , begins by seducing the ear with warm string tone and lilting piano colouring which grows , the rhythms becoming tougher and more insistent , the emotional tension mounting . |
| 7 | What I 'm sorry I switched off a couple of minutes ago |
| 8 | The third time I heard this trail ( as they are called ) , I dashed off a quick letter about my coffin difficulties , asking , at the same time , that if the producer considered my problem worth airing , could I be provided with a tape-recorder so I could get some of the more pompous prevarications dished out by the trade on permanent record ? |
| 9 | And in the dark , when we lay beneath a single sheet and I gave off a Calabrian sweat , when the middle stretch of the night was shorter but still hard to get through — then , as I turned towards that loose S beside me , she would , with a soft murmur , try to lift the lost hair from the back of her neck . |
| 10 | My home club is Coombe Hill in Kingston , Surrey , and I play off a handicap of 17 . |
| 11 | Nor could I shake off a feeling that Aunt Louise was sitting beside me , enjoying it too . |