Example sentences of "off [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car that Rover killed off eleven years ago is about to be relaunched . |
| 2 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Suspected drug traffickers set off 12 bombs , injuring 35 people , in the latest round of violence here linked to the country 's cocaine war , authorities said . |
| 3 | The gelding had already struck three times out of four in novice events , two at Kempton , before going off 5/2 favourite for the National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 4 | They back off six inches and then charge like two bulls , with the female grasping the male by the bottom lip for a few seconds before he escapes . |
| 5 | A top European Community official said earlier that Washington would kill off six years of talks aimed at freeing world trade and boosting the global economy if it went ahead with retaliatory sanctions over EC oilseed subsidies . |
| 6 | A top European Community official said earlier that Washington would kill off six years of talks aimed at freeing world trade and boosting the global economy if it went ahead with retaliatory sanctions over EC oilseed subsidies . |
| 7 | Recently the Arbroath engineering firm Giddings and Lewis paid off 90 workers . |
| 8 | Having thus fended off three challenges to his leadership , Franco felt sufficiently confident to deal summarily with the fourth , simply picking off the signatories of the September petition one by one . |
| 9 | Intel Corp will reportedly use PC Expo in New York in June to preview the so-called 80586 or P5 microprocessor in a technology demo perhaps showing off three versions . |
| 10 | When it vanished , it was equivalent to switching off 100,000 power stations the size of Didcot power station . |
| 11 | It was switched off five days later . |
| 12 | Coventry-based Engineering fought off five rivals to secure the business , which involves , design , procurement , construction , management and commissioning . |
| 13 | TOP-SEEDED Jim Courier fought off 13 aces from 1991 Wimbledon singles champion Michael Stich to beat the powerful German 7–6 , 6–1 and reach the quarter-finals of the Paris Open yesterday . |
| 14 | Quinn set off fifteen minutes before me but arrived in Kensington three minutes ahead . |
| 15 | If the spin is " up " the electron goes off one way , if it is " down " the electron goes off the other way , as in the figure . |
| 16 | So Gloria and Maudie set off one way , towards West Ferry Road , while Ruth and Sarah went in the other direction . |
| 17 | I 've had my picture taken alongside most of Snowdonia 's summit cairns and I no longer feel prodded by guide books or pressured by time to tick off one top after another . |
| 18 | If you cut off one head of a hydra , two others promptly sprouted in its place . |
| 19 | ‘ The music company wanted new product fast before the headster time ended so I dashed it off one afternoon after I 'd dropped some A. Goodness , some of the interpretations people came up with ! |
| 20 | READING chairman John Madejski is to make an official complaint about referee Clive Wilkes after he sent off one Reading player and booked five . |
| 21 | If each month that goes by you cross off one square , then by the age of 38 you have less than half your squares left . |
| 22 | The seller 's intention is to play off one buyer against another and introduce elements of haste and competitive bidding into negotiations in order to maximise the price . |
| 23 | She sat up , sweeping her tumbling hair back from her face with one hand , then grabbed the covers about her , suddenly aware that her nightdress was slipping off one shoulder . |
| 24 | Her working gear comprised an oversized boat-necked T-shirt which had a habit of slipping off one shoulder , frayed denim shorts and flip-flops . |
| 25 | A neutron in a free state will decay in about ten minutes into a proton , after giving off one unit of negative electrical energy in the form of a negative pion . |
| 26 | Her shots tore off one man 's ear and wounded another man in the buttocks as he fled from the pub . |
| 27 | Carver said nothing : Hauser was up to his usual tactics — playing off one man against the other . |
| 28 | He went tramping off one day with ten francs in his pocket , hoping to call on him . |
| 29 | Only too painfully aware of his inadequate technique , he went off one day to see his cousin-in-law , Anton Mauve , a successful painter of the Hague school — armed perhaps with a letter of recommendation from dear Uncle Cent . |
| 30 | So I thought , maybe I 'll go off one day and find out what 's going on in the place . |