Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pers pn] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could not snap them off , as perhaps Rachaela 's own mother had tried to do . |
| 2 | I will not take them off ! |
| 3 | ‘ You can not take it off , Roger , ’ my master ordered . |
| 4 | This is why he does not cut them off , ’ said an aide to the Prince in Bangkok last week . |
| 5 | After pulling up the curtain to the desired width , tie the cords neatly but do not cut them off . |
| 6 | However , if your circumstances change , and you can not keep to an arrangement , tell the fuel supplier , who should not cut you off without offering you another arrangement or a pre-payment meter . |
| 7 | However , if some setting that you have little or no first-hand experience of does happen to be what has made your imagination bubble and race , you need not cross it off altogether . |
| 8 | She honestly could not hold him off alone . |
| 9 | But she could not hold him off ! |
| 10 | ‘ You can not fob me off so . |
| 11 | There was a riffle of suppressed laughter at this permitted intimacy , but Caterina pressed on , for Rosa must not cry any more , not like that , must not cast her off , not like that . |
| 12 | ‘ Now avoid the Van Gogh , you 'll not get it off , |
| 13 | She washed and scrubbed , but she could not get it off . |
| 14 | That has yet to be tested in public , but the evening certainly did not put her off — — she has been an ardent fan of the Welsh National Opera ever since . |
| 15 | ‘ You will not put me off so easily , Alfred the Learned , ’ said the Friar . |
| 16 | Even hooking and losing fish in the middle of a shoal does not put them off when they are feeding ravenously . |
| 17 | These boys and others like them will not put us off . |
| 18 | But she could not put it off forever . |
| 19 | Although it might seem impossible to get cooperation from such a child , given his usual behaviour , this should not put you off . |
| 20 | Virgin will not pull it off if they add too much capacity in too many routes in a very short period of time , because filling capacity is becoming increasingly difficult . |
| 21 | When they got out of the cab she could not shake him off . |
| 22 | Aristotle 's influence was enormous , and even the great English physician , William Harvey , who laboured so long on the chick embryo , could not shake it off . |
| 23 | He could not shake it off . |
| 24 | A typical Feiffer couple , solemnly offering each other elaborate explanations of why they could not hit it off , are asking in their thought balloons why the other partner ca n't , for Pete 's sake , make a straight pass . |
| 25 | Practise speaking your answers out loud but do not learn them off by heart . |
| 26 | Our worst enormity was when we flushed Desmond Parsons out of his room with the fire hydrant and , having turned it on , could not turn it off . |