Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a retired reverend , and I thought that , as he had made the effort , it might be nice to ask him to say a prayer to round off the proceedings . |
| 2 | Frenzied attempts to work off the festive flab can lead to muscle and tendon injuries as people try to do too much too quickly . |
| 3 | In March 1947 , the Government announced its intention to round off the social service provision that had been made by the National Insurance and National Health Service Acts of 1946 , by introducing legislation to break up the poor law , and to introduce a comprehensive system of national assistance . |
| 4 | I 'm still here ! ’ spoken by McQueen when he finally escapes on a craft made of coconut shells — an attempt to round off the story as a paean of praise to survival . |
| 5 | This started the defendant to go off the rails . ’ |
| 6 | IF ONLY one side had a clear lead , what parties there would be : parties to welcome home John Major , parties to see off the blasted yoke of Tory rule , parties for the sake of parties . |
| 7 | Despite carding his worst round of the championship , a two over par 74 , he held his nerve to see off the challenge of defending champion Eamonn Darcy over the testing K Club course . |
| 8 | At that particular moment of time , as the leader of the Labour group here , I had a discussion with the leader of the Labour group on Thamesdown Borough Council , with the political officer down there , and I was asked to resist any attempt to sell off the garden of Swindon , because once Thamesdown became a unitary authority , it would want that to sell for itself to get it 's capital . |
| 9 | But Michael Oppenheimer , chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund , described it as " mere window-dressing — an attempt to buy off the developing world " . |
| 10 | It might help in advance to give certain additional information to each of the three groups independently of the others ( see above section on small group work ) : perhaps the Pied Piper is prepared to let the children free if s/he can get a good deal ; perhaps the mayor is unwilling to use any public funds to buy off the Piper . |
| 11 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 12 | ‘ Twill do Anne no harm to leave off the dances for a few months out of respect for her grandma , ’ Julia said . |
| 13 | What it represents I would suggest , is the desperate attempt to trim off the margin to find every single last way in which we can follow the government diktat whilst preserving our full services . |
| 14 | She sat in a chair with a shawl over her shoulders to keep off the draughts . |
| 15 | Sometimes we made shelters with leaves and branches to keep off the rain . |
| 16 | ONE of the firms approached by Monktonhall Colliery about forming a partnership to stave off the pit 's financial problems has pulled out of talks with the consortium , writes Graeme Wilson . |
| 17 | Flailing at the air where he 'd been , she struck out at the switch to turn off the PA that had suddenly inexplicably turned itself on . |
| 18 | Flailing at the air where he 'd been , she struck out at the switch to turn off the PA that had suddenly inexplicably turned itself on . |
| 19 | It was his unexpected kindness that caused her jaw to clench suddenly in an attempt to stave off the hot tears scalding her eyes . |
| 20 | Even Wordsworth 's residence in the Lake District , a non-profit-making area compared to , say , Manchester , and his initial attempt to live off the profession of poetry , represent a challenge to the age . |
| 21 | Eight days later her boss , Kevin Watts , acted as a courier to drop off the money near Barnsley , South Yorks , and Stephanie was released unharmed . |
| 22 | But they counted as necessary a pair of iron-pointed walking sticks , a clasp-knife , stout hunting-whips to beat off the legions of dogs they were prepared to encounter , and a policeman 's small lantern , since they had been warned that Turkish paper lanterns were useless in a hurricane . |
| 23 | I slammed the car into first gear to get off the poor thing . |
| 24 | We put on the billy and head for a coffee and warm , pausing at the tent entrance to brush off the snow that is heaped on our jackets and hoods . |
| 25 | Love Hearts might be a cynical attempt to rip off the drug-obsessed rave scene , but there must be a host of other legal substances that might do the trick . |
| 26 | So now Carol 's going to use damp pads damp cotton wool to take off the cleanser . |
| 27 | A stocky man , dressed in rough denim with a whistle round his neck to warn off the unthinking , stood just beyond the ruined walls of the Temple of the Sun ; on the periphery of everyone 's intense looking . |
| 28 | It was only after the collapse of peace in Europe that radicals could begin to envisage ‘ such a weakening of all the Great Powers of Europe as shall enable the more backward nations to throw off the yoke fastened on them by the Cabinets and financiers of ‘ civilised ’ States . ’ |
| 29 | However , the UK failed in its attempt to head off the EC Commission , even though it made a last-minute offer to bring forward compliance of five water supplies contaminated with nitrate , from 1995 to 1991–4 , ‘ a shift , ’ according to ENDS , ‘ which , until then , the UK had insisted would be impractical . ’ |
| 30 | Hitachi , with its partners Maxwell and Matsushita , has come up with a disc the same size , while a third combine headed by Seagate has opted for 3¼ inch ( 7–8 cm ) in an attempt to head off the Japanese competition . |