Example sentences of "you [verb] [to-vb] off the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You want to lay off the fags , Gleeson , ’ said Hardy , ‘ You 'll ruin your health . ’ |
| 2 | now you want to read off the top of the scale for minutes . |
| 3 | have you got to finish off the tapes by erm Wednesday ? |
| 4 | ‘ Why the hell did n't you bother to dry off the ponies ? ’ |
| 5 | Okay Suzanne , now you had to slacken off the halyard to let me tie that last knot so if you could tighten it up again that will pull the sail up to the top of the mast . |
| 6 | Otherwise what they got some of the latest cranes out down there , you had to come off the barrel , go up the jib , come down again , then up again . |
| 7 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 8 | You do not need to use expensive gloss or enamel paints , because you have to finish off the surface with polyurethane anyway . |
| 9 | You need to turn off the power source , remove the cover from the existing single socket and disconnect the wiring . |