Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [pron] off " in BNC.
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1 | You g you could get down and just start and with the one hour the blower would go and knock you off . |
2 | So I went back , dressed , and off I went , called the and I went up to try and beat it off . |
3 | You want the lord of the manor to come and carry you off as his long lost daughter , is that it ? ’ |
4 | should n't we use , try every effort to try and carry it off , perhaps that 's one that Jehovah 's looked at and said well there 's an area that they need to learn about , that need to understand a little more , they know nothing about that particular area , in the scriptures , now that 's a good one for them to have , we 'll make sure they get that , that way they 're going to learn , so if ever we always get the easy ones , the ones we know , the ones we 've done before , we think I can handle this , you never learn anything do we ? |
5 | ‘ Might as well go back and finish him off , ’ says Iain . |
6 | " But I think we have to go forward and finish him off . " |
7 | LT : The other speaker is likely to chip in and finish it off |
8 | ‘ And do n't ever call her again , or I 'll come back and finish you off ! ’ |
9 | Bernice took a few moments break from her search to reach up and snap it off . |
10 | Let's go downstairs and show it off to the others . ’ |
11 | ‘ I wo n't come and see you off , ’ Cassie said shakily . |
12 | I mean the big fellows here they 've got to try and run it off or give it a tug and come off come off and get the er the sub on . |
13 | I mean no one is going to come on and drag us off … |
14 | I 'll go and switch it off |
15 | Do n't try and put me off , Luke . |
16 | Then she keeps saying to do n't try and put me off . |
17 | Do n't you dare I 'm in charge of this interview and erm and erm and erm what 's caused this and why discussion what has caused this change to try and find out and put him off Horrible feeling you see two people shouting at each other two people shouting at each other get the impression that the other party is actually doing an impression of a goldfish and going like that . |
18 | It would not be past Zhukov 's greed and cunning to try and fob him off with the wrong pie e of film . |
19 | Or I 'll try and get it off first and then go over it . |
20 | everything would be absolutely soaking , and I 'd try and get it off of him but he holds on to it so tight |
21 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
22 | We then run it into fermenters , adding yeast , then leave it for 3 days to ferment and rack it off into casks . |
23 | My Mum had to come in and turn it off . |
24 | Despite their silky passing , Forrester was able to score twice and kill them off . |
25 | DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument . |
26 | So they 've got ta try and kill it off now . |