Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Mac and Morrissey were well known for slagging off the entire rock world outside their own small circles . |
| 2 | Just the thing for keeping off the heat . ’ |
| 3 | The tactics for keeping off the ropes , so to speak , had been explained to every platoon commander the previous June , and they knew ‘ every mile towards the east was a serious loss ’ . |
| 4 | And also the marks of the little side axe used for trimming off the sides . |
| 5 | For this writer it began when , shortly after stepping off the plane in Johannesburg , it became apparent that a few stitches sustained by the All Black winger Terry Wright in a training accident was deemed as worthy a front page news story as the continuous blood-letting in the Natal townships between rival ANC and Inkatha factions . |
| 6 | After turning off the water , use pliers to extract the split pin . |
| 7 | But all we can hear after turning off the recording is the sound of the same male making the same clicking sound . ’ |
| 8 | I was terrible on drugs , shouting , swearing … ‘ ) , of her daughter being taken into care and being kept there when she come out of hospital after getting off the doctors ’ drugs . |
| 9 | Roll out the bread lightly with a rolling pin after cutting off the crusts and spread thickly with the cheese filling . |
| 10 | It is a good idea to wait for one to three months , after coming off the Pill , to see what effect this has — for some women , the Pill itself is the unsuspected source of vague health problems , so the anti- Candida diet may be unnecessary . |
| 11 | Forgotten-man Pavel emerges from the shadows for only his second League appearance for the Geordies in 13 months and just three weeks after coming off the transfer list . |
| 12 | I was a passenger in a microlight and just after taking off the engine spluttered and we had to make an emergency landing . |
| 13 | After dropping off the Substitute , the Captain went to his office before going to lunch . |
| 14 | All these preparations for living off the land were unnecessary , for between them they knew of a network of wealthy houses , stretching from St Tropez to Mykonos , where bedrooms with a bath en suite , swimming-pools and occasional servants in white gloves would be put at their disposal by parents only too grateful to discover that their daughters had not , as yet , been violated by a lorry-driver or their sons arrested for the importation of stuff . |
| 15 | The concern of the authorities is that a dominant firm will price aggressively in those markets where it faces actual or potential competition with the intention of seeing off the competition . |
| 16 | I could , I could really throw the dirt at them by saying that I 'll , you know , if there is a conspiracy there 's , a person here who 's been involved in a very iffy part of the budget , who all of a sudden after ten years of slagging off the town clerk , all of a sudden he 's totally on the town clerk 's side , together with Councillor . |
| 17 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 18 | He sort of bounced off the wall as if he was on a piece of elastic and someone had just yanked it from the other end . |
| 19 | By virtue of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 , s.18 , at the moment of driving off the petrol no longer belonged to the garage . |
| 20 | Robin Haire and Adrian Semple made sure of knocking off the remaining runs , leaving them with an over and a half to spare . |
| 21 | As the industrial sector grew , especially with the rapid post-1918 development of heavy industry , the concentration of industry in urban areas meant that members of the rural population could no longer maintain even a pretence of living off the land , and were more and more drawn away to the expanding cities . |
| 22 | HIDDEN IMMORALITY : Asian prostitute at a window in the red-light district of Balsall Heath , Birmingham , and ( inset ) Denise Seneviratne , producer of Living Off The Game |
| 23 | An inglenook , Oh I think it had been a place a sort of built off the fireplace . |
| 24 | Gone is their habit of rounding off the edges — The Tambourines now make them as jagged as possible ; aggressive , articulate and brain blastingly loud . |
| 25 | Gone is their habit of rounding off the edges — The Tambourines now make them as jagged as possible ; aggressive , articulate and brain blastingly loud . |
| 26 | The Prince , once again , had scented the possibility of wriggling off the hook . |
| 27 | This is so serious that for world championship flying , many gliders are now fitted with a means of cleaning off the leading edges of the wings in flight . |
| 28 | He justified the ‘ legal regulation of the problem ’ as the only way of heading off the likelihood of spontaneous ‘ defensive actions of the enraged population ’ , and claimed the German government had been compelled ‘ by the idea of being able , through a once and for all secular solution , of perhaps creating a basis on which the German people might possibly be able to find a tolerable relationship with the Jewish people ’ . |
| 29 | Nothing better illustrates the impossibility of separating off the individual personality from the wider social groups of which he or she is or has been a member , than the analysis of the development of conscience , that is , in Freud 's terminology , the superego . |
| 30 | His first triumph in Europe ramins the No 1 aim once he can keep his game together for all four rounds , instead of going off the rails at a crucial stage . |