Example sentences of "when i [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon , a week later , I decided the time had come to stop dithering like a Victorian maiden and to write to Bill , when I got off at ten that night , asking if no news was good news . |
| 2 | When I got off , instead of letter-writing , I accepted a last-minute party date . |
| 3 | That bastard on that bus , when I got off I heard this voice saying and I looked round and there 's this ragger sitting there |
| 4 | When I switch off my lamp I switch on me , and vice versa , with no trouble at all . |
| 5 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 6 | I wondered , when I set off to get it , if my notoriety had been communicated on the jungle drums and if the promised purchase might still elude me , so I was especially glad to have it safely at home . |
| 7 | Mine is not a journey of that methodical description ; on the contrary it is a ramble hand-in-hand with Fancy , with a light heart and lighter baggage ; for my whole wallet , when I set off , contains but one single idea — but ideas are hermaphrodite , and these creatures of the brain are most prolific . |
| 8 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 9 | ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us . |
| 10 | ‘ When I go off to work each day , ’ he said slowly , ‘ Dorothy comes out to the car with me to say goodbye . |
| 11 | Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend . |
| 12 | I think she 's pretty mad at me right now , 'cos I 'm a little bit of a flirt and she gets disappointed with me when I go off with girls . |
| 13 | ‘ When I fell off I just kept thinking this is it , this is it . |
| 14 | And physically it was n't any worse than when I fell off my bike as a kid and was concussed for an hour or two . |
| 15 | He says when I fell off I was relieved just to get off it . |
| 16 | ‘ When I came off , I said ‘ I ran onstage and there was this resounding sound of 30,000 people going ‘ Who the f— 's that ? ’ to each other ! ’ |
| 17 | When I came off , I felt I needed to sort of keep in touch , sort of speaking to people that know what 's going on and know what 's going on in ex-users ' heads , y'know . |
| 18 | When I went on stage in Tain , the Western Isles had lost £8 million ; when I came off , there were 14 messages on the pager , and they 'd lost £23 million . |
| 19 | ‘ Everything seemed to be going well and I looked like finishing well in the points when I went off , all on my own , towards the end . |
| 20 | When I went off that morning Bill did not recognize me . |
| 21 | Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ? |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , but we played better when I went off ! ’ he said , referring to the fact that Dale were camped in the opponents ' penalty area in the final half hour . |
| 23 | He was shocked when I took off my shirt in the street to get some damn sun on my tits . |
| 24 | In the meantime , the sheep took off on cue and I could hear they had reached the Lion by the din coming from the main bar , I was put in a police van and off to the " cop-shop " ; when I took off my smock and the stupid hat there really was a frightened wing commander underneath . |
| 25 | I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue . |
| 26 | Yet when I step off the bus at the Coronet cinema I get the same lurch as when I first left home . |
| 27 | When I drive off , I am so churned up inside that I find myself hoping I sha n't make things worse by having a coronary on the way to work . ’ |
| 28 | When I drive off the boat , I always have a desire to go through the Red Channel . |
| 29 | Well when I worked at , when I started off in the I quite liked my job in there , you made your own pay , and I liked , it was a starching job , I 'd quite a good job in there . |
| 30 | But maybe you think of course I started rambling when I started off but er |