Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age , when the pace of life was slow , when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers , in vast numbers , worked that land . |
| 2 | ‘ But why so many British ladies ? ’ asked the young German student bemusedly as 60–odd enthusiasts of all ages tumbled off the coach at the Medau College in Coburg . |
| 3 | Frenzied attempts to work off the festive flab can lead to muscle and tendon injuries as people try to do too much too quickly . |
| 4 | The network capacity problem arises because currently the company 's System X and AXE 10 digital exchanges do not support ISDN directly — instead , customers are served through special multiplexors hanging off the side . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All the biggest words rose off the stones towards him : mother , love , father , memory , son , heaven . |
| 7 | The house was broken into in the early hours of Friday morning and the intruders carried off the rock and pop CDs in a Head sports bag which they also stole from the house . |
| 8 | The dawn was breaking as the cars rolled off the ferry at North Wall ; there was a sullen , red-streaked sky , with banks of threatening clouds building up on the horizon . |
| 9 | Others are fitted as permanent onboard lighting units fed off the camcorder battery , and are arranged for either manual control or , in some cases , auto on/off as and when the ambient light level drops to a predetermined value . |
| 10 | Loudspeakers will be lowered into the water from a pilot boat , and the whales will be played recordings made off the Azores last year by a Bangor University marine biologist , John Goold . |
| 11 | At the far end , eight wireless receivers stood in line abreast ; doors marked Teleprinters , Coding and Signals opened off the main office space , while in its centre men sat at typewriters , index fingers jabbing furiously . |
| 12 | I slither down the muddy steps leading off the Mudchute embankment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Electricity supplies were disrupted and scores of cars slithered off the roads . |
| 15 | It could not be accomplished on the run though I made some schematic doodles based on observation : the way , for example , drainage run-off channels bulldozed off the sides of the track echoed the pattern of the tree branches or veins on a leaf . |
| 16 | She sat in a chair with a shawl over her shoulders to keep off the draughts . |
| 17 | Sometimes we made shelters with leaves and branches to keep off the rain . |
| 18 | ‘ As we went up there were big snow plumes coming off the mountain to the left and right of us but there was n't much wind . |
| 19 | If MPs do not look forward to an annual visit to Babel by the Sea , the Party 's rank and file spend twelve months ticking off the days in happy anticipation . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , General George Campbell , with a force of some 1,500 men had crossed the north ford , from North Uist to Benbecula ; two warships lay off the coast and the commander , Captain Scott , added a further 700 men to the hunting party . |
| 21 | One of the frogs fell off the branch and disappeared quietly into the leafy canopy far below . |
| 22 | During this period of weakness and confusion , in any case , the inhabitants of large districts cast off the Forest law , without scrupulous consideration of the reservations in the king 's grant of disafforestment . |
| 23 | As soon as I rounded the line of fitted units screening off the kitchen I saw her slumped on the floor in the corner , huddled up as though against the cold . |
| 24 | ‘ Eiders are the ones with Roman noses falling off the tops of their heads . |
| 25 | Additionally , there would be various piles of books taken off the shelves and marked for action of one kind or another . |
| 26 | Lids unscrewed from jars , boxes opened , books thrown off the shelves . |
| 27 | but whether we want at the end of it to have another water seminar , looking instead of extraction side but what the water companies are doing with our rivers it might not be a bad idea as part of er producing a considered view later on in the year but I do n't , I do n't think we can hurry this as there 's a lot of lessons to be learnt and I I do n't think we should do the work in the Fire and Public Protection Committee erm in getting our erm eyes taken off the dealing with the actual problem at the moment , we want to look , step , step back and say well what what was the cause of all that , but I do support erm proposal that we should have it listed as er |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | Later in the month American aircraft carrier groups operating off the Libyan coast clashed militarily with Libya . |