Example sentences of "[pron] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I 'm actually allowing me to write my off and my expenses and |
| 2 | You put my light off , I do n't like that , you put my off . |
| 3 | Christmases were wonderful and greatly looked forward to by us both , but they were also tiring , and in early January , when all danger of further jollity from New Year had receded , we took ourselves off for a couple of days . |
| 4 | If we Christians set our own judgement or our inherited traditions above the Old and New Testament scriptures we part company with the Lord and the apostles , and cut ourselves off from our one source of knowledge of God . |
| 5 | Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ? |
| 6 | ‘ We 're not washing machines , we ca n't switch ourselves off . ’ |
| 7 | Jack , Willy , Rex and I took ourselves off to the Lamb Inn for lunch and put away as much ale and steak and kidney pie as four young men could desire . |
| 8 | And he says , sells his off at a quarter of a million , per cube . |
| 9 | And if you give me dad 's five pound well I can mark his off and then you can tell him then , I 'll leave your card here and you can say you 've paid and you owe me five pound . |
| 10 | Well he takes his off , but he always takes his off |
| 11 | Well he takes his off , but he always takes his off |
| 12 | You grizzle yours off . |
| 13 | You want yours off ? |
| 14 | As far as I 'm concerned , the residents come first ; and I expect every member of staff to understand that , right through from helping them get up in the morning to taking someone off to bingo if she wants to go . |
| 15 | ’ It 's more satisfying to make an arrest but it 's more practical to put someone off because while you 're in the back room charging someone , other shoplifters are having a field day in the store . ’ |
| 16 | He look like just , just look like someone off Jes Yes Minister do n't he ? |
| 17 | because you think , I mean I come up here and I slag someone off to you or yeah , and then I 'll go downstairs and I 'll sit with them at lunch and have a perfectly normal conversation with them |
| 18 | Would you ever toss someone off . |
| 19 | She might easy 'ave murdered 'im if our dad 'ad n't pulled 'er off . |
| 20 | Here now , let me help ye off with yer coat and hat . |
| 21 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 22 | So I went up and there was a bloke standing in the middle of the toilets , by the basin , tossing himself off , and I said , ‘ What do you think you 're doing ? ’ |
| 23 | At other times he craved solitude and took himself off to Balmoral to fish , paint and stalk deer . |
| 24 | He stood aside for McLeish , then took himself off , observing unnecessarily that he just had a wee bit paperwork to finish up . |
| 25 | He proceeded , unchallenged , to the shuttle docks where he 'd previously concealed the identity backup so that he could pass himself off as a human shuttle-worker . |
| 26 | For in between the two pages of words he had brought himself off , face stretched tight with lust , mind gurgling with images of the girl with black hair and red boots kneeling on a bed so that her full young breasts with long pink nipples dangled into his palms as he mounted her from behind , calling for her to cream , baby , cream . |
| 27 | In the winter of 1945–6 , when he took himself off into the mountains on spiritual retreat , he wrote to one of the United States Army 's cultural attachés with whom he later became great friends : |
| 28 | As soon as he was of age he took himself off to London to work as a merchant 's clerk . |
| 29 | He only came to the Sahara to get a sun-tan and lose weight , so that he can put on his dark glasses and show himself off in the bars back home . ’ |
| 30 | However many problems there may be , there is a natural human instinct to form relationships all through our lives , although occasionally one will find a recluse — someone who has deliberately cut himself off from human contact . |