Example sentences of "off a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can pick off a few young leaves for salads or cooking . |
| 2 | Diana not only ostentatiously wore outfits that she had been seen in before — to knock a few criticisms on the head about the money she spent on her wardrobe — but she also seized the opportunity to kill off a few more misconceptions . |
| 3 | Throw Enfield a question and he 'll bounce it around , knock off a few apt replies and then launch himself into one of the manic routines from the new show . |
| 4 | Scrape the soil away from the plant to expose some of its larger roots and cut off a few of these with a sharp knife . |
| 5 | The match , which kicked off a few minutes later than its scheduled 10.15 start time , ended on a bizarre note seven minutes into injury time at 12.15am . |
| 6 | I raced back to the line-up and picked off a few more waves . |
| 7 | We spilt a few beans and touched the odd ( female ) nerve and laughed off a few fiascos . |
| 8 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 9 | And if you 're so inclined , there 's potential for ticking off a few classic rock climbs along the way . |
| 10 | Moreover , between tending the wounded , the doctor managed to fend off a few shots at snipers . |
| 11 | It ca n't be used , for example , for casting off a few stitches at the armhole . |
| 12 | After ten minutes we were hot and had to take off a few layers . |
| 13 | The dog moved off a few paces and turned back , wagging his tail anxiously . |
| 14 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 15 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 16 | An agency is not a sort of plate-glass fun-palace in which bejeaned intellectuals dash off a few lapidary phrases in praise of Surf or Oxo between polishing the rhyme schemes of their latest book of sonnets or ( more likely ) the lyrics of the next chart-topper . |
| 17 | At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’ |
| 18 | When she saw a test of it she was extremely pleased and told him to run off a few hundred yards . |
| 19 | How ironic that she felt so alive in Piers 's company , the one man who could shrug her off as carelessly as he would shrug off a few flecks of sand from his T-shirt . |
| 20 | The leader let off a few rounds which went bellowing over our heads . |
| 21 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 22 | Nick , the ever-ready surveyor , whipped out his loaded camera and reeled off a few shots of the thief . |
| 23 | There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed . |
| 24 | There were checks to be done , now that Hess had replaced the mechanic , so Karlheinz backed off a few paces with the camera . |
| 25 | One rabbit can finish off a few hundred young trees in no time . " |
| 26 | Credit must be given to the home keeper Alan Godden who had to pull off a few good saves . |
| 27 | His helmet slipped over his head three furlongs out and was dangling under his right armpit passing the post , falling off a few strides later . |
| 28 | Should he dash off a few writs ? |
| 29 | Without consulting the master layout plan I have no idea which square yard H24/V72 occupies on the pitch , once the biggest in England until former manager Billy Bremner lopped off a few yards because he thought it put the team at a disadvantage when playing away ( they must now be regretting all those lost square yards they could be selling ) . |