Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb base] off [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Settle down and live off the back catalogue : I do n't know , I do n't think I 'd just stop . |
| 2 | This was n't really happening , it was a dream , a nightmare , and she 'd wake up soon and turn off the alarm and get ready for work . |
| 3 | Transferring my gun to my left hand , I reach over and turn off the grill . |
| 4 | Amazed at her own daring , she watched herself reach out and flip off the ignition switch . |
| 5 | These initially hair-like fibres seek out and feed off the cellulose in the wood which is digested by the fungus to leave a dry , desiccated and fragile shell of wood-fibre or lignin which , in the absence of the cementitious cellulose , can not continue to perform any structural role required of the timber . |
| 6 | To Hazel , it seemed a likely place for a weasel : or the white owl , perhaps , might fly along the escarpment at twilight , looking inwards with its stony eyes , ready to turn a few feet sideways and pick off the shelf anything that moved . |