Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was really the loss of that one large contract which finished off the company , until then the factory had been fully committed ’ said Mr Madden . |
| 2 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |
| 3 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 4 | One theory of the origin of ice ages is that they occur when large masses ( for example , comets ) crash down onto the Earth , throwing up vast amounts of detritus into the stratosphere which block off the heat from the Sun . |
| 5 | Much of his conversation , uttered in the flat voice which set off the originality of the content , conveyed in this way infinite nuances of banter and irony . |
| 6 | Cornwall had been at the fore-front of the Spanish wars and indeed , the incident which sparked off the war took place at Fowey and Saltash . |
| 7 | He found that from the intersection of Fleming 's Cross-cut with the vein , the level had been taken S.E. along it for 40 fathoms , at the forehead of which was a cross-course which cut off the lode . |