Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distribution of frequencies in this ‘ microwave background ’ is just like the distribution of frequencies given off by a hot gas . |
| 2 | She was referred to the town 's main fire station where he met sub-officer John Yoxall and had the bracket cut off with a small hacksaw . |
| 3 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm surprised you have n't had the window-frame shipped off to the Black Museum . ’ |
| 5 | He would juggle them with his tongue for us children and told us a tale of getting his glasses whipped off by a passing branch . |
| 6 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 7 | I have never had much stomach for fighting and I certainly did not relish the prospect of having my head knocked off for a few cigarettes ! |
| 8 | She turned , arms flailing , head back , eyes open — but the gaping mouth would utter no more prophecies , her breath cut off by the red garrotte cord round her scrawny neck . |
| 9 | One woman had her finger cut off in a slicing machine and never received any compensation . |
| 10 | Beating off an ambush by ‘ eighty infidels on foot ’ , he and his train headed off on the last stage of his journey through the burning plains of the Punjab towards the mighty Indian capital and the palace of the Sultan . |
| 11 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 12 | In the attempt to win society 's approval by a cultured ministry that had both sweetness and light , would Nonconformity produce a ministry cut off from the faithful ? |
| 13 | The class had seen their friends carried off to a certain death . |
| 14 | OMAGH TOWN had a man sent off for the third game in a row as they were outclassed at Shamrock Park . |
| 15 | But later he stigmatised them as ‘ the social scum , the passively rotting mass thrown off by the lower layers of the old society . ’ |
| 16 | When a bat detects heat it is actually sensing the infra-red radiation given off by a warm body . |
| 17 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
| 18 | Legend has it that the once-rounded peaks had their tops lopped off by a supernatural force to make a flat-topped bed and table for St Columba when he visited the island in AD585 . |
| 19 | Constant friction between the two nations at sea led , on 23 October 1739 , to the British government declaring war on Spain , the resulting conflict being known as ‘ The War of Jenkins 's ear ’ ; Robert Jenkins was the master of a British ship who had had his ear cut off by a Spanish officer during a search . |
| 20 | Hitch shot him in the face , watching as he toppled backwards , most of his bottom jaw blown off by the close-range blast . |
| 21 | There 's a school nearby and environmentalists are worried about the possible effects of fumes given off from the burning rubbish . |
| 22 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |