Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 2 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 3 | The general lack of compromise or provision for flexible or part-time work effectively chokes off the careers of many promising lawyers . |
| 4 | He pulled away long enough to strip off the rest of his clothes , and she followed , unable to bear losing contact even for a second , dipping her head forwards to taste his skin , her fingers stroking his muscled back . |
| 5 | A drag coefficient of just 0.30 helps the Safrane to a achieve a top speed of 129mph , which is good enough to see off the Granada ( 123mph ) , but this looks distinctly average when every other car on our rivals page can top 130mph . |
| 6 | It is beautifully cut and is stylish enough to wear off the hill . |
| 7 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 8 | We only got off the unit for exercise about twice a week . |
| 9 | I only got off the bus to catch the bus that was in front and I missed that . |
| 10 | In such a case , a sideshoot is always used and is literally torn off the parent stem so that a sliver or " heel " of bark and inner tissue is still attached to the cutting . |
| 11 | She might even turn her head right round to see where the car had gone , but she would n't consider it important enough to jump off the glove . |
| 12 | The noise of conversation from the hall below bounced off the walls around them . |
| 13 | And then only , gently rolled off the seat that she was sitting on and tried to crawl the way back ! |
| 14 | It was as if someone had suddenly turned off the sound . |
| 15 | Ever since Vogue homed in on it last December , the Wonderbra has been literally bouncing off the shelves . |
| 16 | Then , almost overnight it seemed , Oxfordshire suddenly threw off the mantle of winter . |
| 17 | They 'd all got off the bus together ; this one had gone into a truckers ’ cafe for cigarettes and a carton of coffee . |
| 18 | It senses the danger and almost instantaneously cuts off the power with a speed of reaction which can prevent a tragedy occurring . |
| 19 | It almost instantaneously cuts off the power , and can prevent a tragedy occurring . |
| 20 | Anthony 's mother , Stella , 44 , threw bricks at the dog which was only dragged off the screaming youth after two neighbours attacked it with an iron bar . |
| 21 | You know his laws in parc you know sort of in practice , but we 'll , we 'll sit here and watch that pen until it suddenly jumps off the table . |
| 22 | A usual ploy was to have to re-tie one 's gym shoe just as one 's turn came round , but it only staved off the evil moment . |
| 23 | So coming off the top of the furnace we have a mixture of nitrogen , quite a lot of that , carbon monoxide and a bit of carbon dioxide . |
| 24 | ‘ We would only call off the strike if Mrs Falconer was given assurances that her job would be saved . ’ |
| 25 | Better take off the headphones . |
| 26 | ‘ After that , cash basically falls off the thing . ’ |
| 27 | In 1305 the abbot of Thorney in the Fens complained that the abbot of Peterborough ‘ lately by night raised a dyke across the high road ’ , and so cut off the former 's access to corn and pasture . |
| 28 | Though not in the ERM , its currency was pegged to it and in September Sweden toughed out wild currency markets by whacking its interest rates sky-high for just long enough to scare off the cowboys . |
| 29 | We were only allowed off the site to go to work , and this is where we shift girls scored as we worked round the clock and had to leave the camp after dark when all the day workers had to stay indoors . |
| 30 | But the East Anglian company says that Morland can only put off the takeover , and not stop it . |