Example sentences of "off the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very tempting to just stay put but the longer we put it off the worse it would be . |
| 2 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 3 | Trim off the lower leaves when taking stem-tip cuttings of heliotrope . |
| 4 | Cut the stem cleanly just beneath a leaf joint ( unless it is one of those for which a ‘ heel ’ of old wood is best left on ) , and trim off the lower leaves . |
| 5 | This especially applies to the old bucks , which have been known to kill off the younger bucks , their main rivals , for obvious reasons . |
| 6 | The crystallisation of an earlier floating charge does not crystallise a subsequent floating charge since the subsequent chargee may pay off the earlier charge or agree to indemnify the company which continues to carry on business despite the crystallisation of the earlier charge with respect to any liability incurred towards the earlier chargee . |