Sentence examples for somebody off from inspiring English sources

She said: "Telling somebody off doesn't change behaviour.

"You don't know what might set somebody off".

But if you lay somebody off for a year they're not coming back".

The first time I realized it was serious was when, after about six months, I had to lay somebody off.

But Mr. Emanuel's image is largely that of a spectral presence -- somebody off in the closed room, in the back, who shaped events for others.

"If you pull up to drop somebody off in Seattle, they search your car," said Evan Kharasch, a professor at the University of Washington.

(Looking to somebody off-camera).

Just a few days after a local weatherman made a slip of the tongue and inadvertently gave an R-rated weather report, a Houston news anchor was caught in a Ron Burgundy moment as he appeared to give somebody off-camera the finger.

A few minutes before kick-off somebody tipped off the media and the resulting 90 minutes were played in the shadow of feverish speculation, not just in Mainz.

"The likelihood of somebody falling off this ship is about the same as somebody falling off the QE2," he said.

Or somebody dropping off foil-covered cakes on paper plates.