Example sentences of "[verb] off some [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second thing we did was to sell off some of the rare books in order to provide capital which we could apply to the capital cost of the computer system . |
| 2 | To pick off some of the wandering DEC herd , Hewlett-Packard has signed a joint marketing pact that will put Raxco Inc 's VAX/VMS data centre management products on HP 9000 Series 800 and Series 700 machines : the Rockville , Maryland company has its Security Assessment software immediately available for HP 's 9000s . |
| 3 | One governor commented that he was trying to pick off some of the weaker governors who had no sense of what their role was meant to be . |
| 4 | From 1986 onwards , the Thatcher government raised 4–6 billion a year by selling off some of the major public corporations — British Gas , British |
| 5 | The £25 million cost will be met by raising prices and selling off some of the little-used hostels . |
| 6 | My guess is he 's been selling off some of the better vintages over the past few years . ’ |
| 7 | Besides those I have mentioned others present included Mr and Mrs Panagiotis Lemos , she was one of the hardworking joint Chairmen of the evening with Baronne Jacques de Mandat-Grancey ; Lady Russell , who was the honorary Present ; her daughter Lady Boothby , who showed off some of the lovely jewellery that was auctioned ; Mrs Anastasios Nomikos , who was Vice President , the Countess of Lichfield , . |
| 8 | Frequent Bolovian references ( drawings , some rhymes , and much Bolovian dogma ) show that in the period 1927–30 Eliot found this a valuable way of letting off some of the emotional steam generated by his conversion ; serious discussions of theology are juxtaposed in this correspondence with ridiculous accounts of Bolovian religious practice , one letter dated according to the day of St Cecilia , another according to that of St Gumbolumbo . |
| 9 | Teddy organised small-group backings that creamed off some of the best New York musicians of the day — men such as Lester Young , Buck Clayton and Ben Webster — from the resident big bands . |
| 10 | To lose weight the intake of calories from the diet must be less than required — so that the shortfall is made up by burning off some of the excess weight , which is mainly , fatty tissue deposits . |
| 11 | The CCBE has done a great deal behind the scenes to fend off some of the battier ideas emanating from the European Commission . |