Example sentences of "off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To shake off the mood of secrecy , he took her out . |
| 2 | He shook off the mood with a shrug and grinned back at them . |
| 3 | Slow movers may need to break off combat and leave finishing off the Champion to their swifter-moving friends if all are to get out alive ! |
| 4 | Turn off the tap , then restore the water supply to the tap . |
| 5 | Someone please turn off the tap |
| 6 | As I said earlier , one can not switch off the tap and ban tobacco . |
| 7 | Of course at school they always tell you that you should do a secretarial course , which was absolutely dreadful , and they put you off the idea of a career in the theatre just as much as they can . |
| 8 | THE BRITISH government 's decision to pour taxpayers ' money into a new factory to make video tape for the Japanese firm , Hitachi , has finally killed off the idea of putting a tax on the tape . |
| 9 | Have I put you off the idea of knitting for profit ? |
| 10 | I put him off the idea of going shopping with me . |
| 11 | His mind fought off the idea furiously , and yet it came back to fret his certainty again . |
| 12 | GrandMet — whose enquiry to UBS about the book 's contents sparked off the row uses nine out of 12 possible accounting devices . |
| 13 | The alternative infra-red system uses a beam which is emitted from the camcorder and reflected back off the subject , the time taken for the reflection to return being measured and converted to a distance setting . |
| 14 | get off the wave either by sailing down ahead of it or by slowing down and letting it pass under you . |
| 15 | Typically the customer selects the equipment from the supplier , and the finance lessor buys it and leases it to the customer on rentals calculated to pay off the purchase price plus interest . |
| 16 | The Church of England vicar blessed the Northamp-tonshire stately home , splashed holy water on the walls and said prayers to ward off the spirit . |
| 17 | ‘ People who can must start over Christmas by getting out of their seats and using the switch when they turn off the TV , ’ said FoE energy campaigner , Mr Simon Roberts . |
| 18 | Switch off the TV sound and watch the newsreader ; do this every night for a week . |
| 19 | This consisted mainly of shutting them in and leaving them be — go in sometime after midnight perhaps , switch off the TV , unplug the Commodore , pick up the comic books and rearrange the covers , but that was about it . |
| 20 | Harriet Shakespeare gave a wavering smile and Keith reached forward and switched off the video recorder . |
| 21 | As Keith switched off the video recorder , she said , ‘ You 've got a picture of Liam Shakespeare , have n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | Will the right hon. Gentleman now throw off the veto of his Minister of State and have the courage to meet us to argue and discuss the case ? |
| 23 | Traditional electron microscopes , which emit beams of electrons and watch them bounce off the surface , can see much smaller details but their pictures usually give only a poor impression of the relief of the surface . |
| 24 | He shrugged violently , shaking off the thought as a dog shook water from its coat . |
| 25 | ‘ Leonora , does the fact that I 've been married before put you off the thought of becoming my wife ? ’ |
| 26 | Sally Greengross , Director of Age Concern England , has written to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators urging that awards made by arbitrators should enable investors to escape their debt completely , ie to pay off the whole of their outstanding loan , which will otherwise ‘ roll up ’ on a daily basis , in some cases leading to repossession . |
| 27 | It was illogical to accept that an accord and satisfaction fell within s 286(5) but fell outside s 287(1) , which referred to where a company releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt . |
| 28 | You can make an arrangement to pay off the bill and your current consumption , by regular payments to the fuel supplier . |
| 29 | A few minutes later Romany pulled off the tarpaulin . |
| 30 | The text sets out from the premiss that the beneficiary of the trust ought to obtain the actual land ( rather than its value ) ; the question therefore is who ought to pay off the creditor to whom the land is presently pledged . |