Example sentences of "off [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you take out a new loan to pay off the old one ? |
| 2 | Meanwhile Stanley made short work of undoing the nuts , pulling off the old wheel and slipping on the new . |
| 3 | Because MPs enjoy such low status , because the work is so poorly paid , because the upper classes have largely abandoned ideas of ‘ service ’ , and because the selection process has killed off the old boy network , there is less and less interest in politics in the Conservatives ' traditional reservoir of support . |
| 4 | Take off the old olives : if they are stuck in place , saw through them very carefully at an angle with a junior hacksaw . |
| 5 | The uphill fairways kill off the old boys . |
| 6 | Clean off the old polish thoroughly and then apply the new . |
| 7 | I would dip blanket after blanket in boiling water , wring them out almost without realising that I was scalding myself , take off the old strips of saturated cloth , wrap the new ones round each leg and tuck them into the corners of affected muscles , but half the time not really knowing what I was doing . |
| 8 | Beyond that there is the sheer cost involved in visiting all of its customers and replacing the BT box on their wall with another , more expensive one and writing off the old analogue exchange line cards . |
| 9 | Catastrophes would serve a useful function in killing off the old species just as the conditions were changing , leaving the world clear for the Creator to step in and design a whole new population adapted to the environment that would stabilize after the upheaval . |
| 10 | Cut the top centimetre from a carrot and trim off the old leaves . |
| 11 | Or , if you can get a lower rate of interest , you could re-mortgage , ie , take out a larger loan with a new lender and pay off the old mortgage . |
| 12 | In fantasy land if we ever have to replace our systems we can of course simple switch off the old one and switch on the new one . |
| 13 | Now a suggested code of practice will kill off the old law . |
| 14 | In addition we were going to have to buy the premises for £95,000 , and pay off the old debts . |
| 15 | In Ninfania , no one threw away the feather of a bird or the peel of a fruit or the seed from a melon , let alone such durable items as the buttons and hooks and eyes from a worn-out item of underwear — I 've seen you still snip them off an old bra , even today , and drop them into a little box in your sewing basket . |
| 16 | Disuse is the natural way to kill off an old behaviour pattern . |
| 17 | We can not kill off an old idea in order to develop a better one . |