Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then you go over the seat and hang off the inside , but you still keep a lot of weight on that outside peg and you put on some more if the tyre starts really sliding . ’ |
| 2 | he said that will all look bad on him he said if he sold it and er do n't I , he , he said he 's got two choices , he either sells that car and pays off the loan in both your names or he , he sells that car and gives you half |
| 3 | He reached inside the car and switched off the ignition , grinning all the time . |
| 4 | In the kitchen , a major contribution to safety is carefulness when using fat for cooking purposes ; if it ignites , the most effective way of controlling the blaze is to cover the pan with a lid or metal tray and turn off the heat supply to the cooking apparatus . |
| 5 | Table lamps and lamp standards can be used to good effect when showing off the house in the evening or on dark winter afternoons . |
| 6 | This is partly philanthropic and partly economic — it may cost more to process the bill and collect the money than to write off the charge ! |
| 7 | Pluto ( since discovered to be a ‘ double planet ’ ) is far too small to create the perturbations in Neptune 's orbit that started off the search in the first place . |
| 8 | ‘ Luckily we were on to their plan and switched off the power before we moved in . ’ |
| 9 | Some systems will drain the machine and switch off the water supply if there is an internal leak . |
| 10 | Ask for brown-bread toast and leave off the butter ! |
| 11 | At the time of Cats , for example , there were lots of offers to turn that into a film , but his instinct was to keep it as a musical play and hold off the film offers . |
| 12 | Rex pulled the bed covers in his direction and switched off the light . |
| 13 | They had reached the auberge ; Melissa turned into the car park and switched off the engine . |
| 14 | The first is an art board which comes with a design printed on it — all you have to do is place your garment over the top of the board and trace off the design before painting it . |
| 15 | Dip a quarter-of-an-inch of the rooting end into hormone rooting powder and tap off the excess . |
| 16 | Push up your shirt and take off the iron chain . ’ |
| 17 | Why , in other words , should perception be of the perceived object rather than any other object in the causal chain further back in the causal chain ; why every perception should not be of the Big Bang that started off the Universe . |
| 18 | The first thing that Daniel did when he came back into the room was to remove the record and switch off the gramophone . |
| 19 | Remove the platter from the steamer and pour off the liquid . |
| 20 | She loved him so very much that if he suggested they take hands and spurt to the cliff-edge and plunge off the edge together like lovesick lemmings she would do it . |
| 21 | Her face now against a tweed back , she fought for breath , struggled and pushed , moaning as another icy drop flowed down her body and set off the pain . |
| 22 | A nurse came into the room and switched off the news . |
| 23 | Then he crossed the room and switched off the light . |
| 24 | His own trade included the quick memorising of landscape and cityscape and at one corner there was an L-shaped alley that cut off the building on the corner itself giving an alternative route to making a left turn on the streets . |
| 25 | Dougal cut the connection , returned the handset to its rest and switched off the tape recorder . |
| 26 | He tucked the chintzy bed cover over his sleeping friend and switched off the light . |
| 27 | If they do take the hint and hang off the lid , take care that they are not knocked off when the nettles are being replenished for caterpillars that are still feeding . |
| 28 | ‘ We are very worried someone is going to fall down the cliff or slip off the ship and break something . |
| 29 | ( x ) Remove each grid in turn and wash off the stain with running drops of CO2-free double-distilled water . |
| 30 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |