Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] off the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just fill in and send off the Free Trial Card . |
| 2 | All she wanted was to turn the clock back and shrug off the ghastly realisation that her marriage was not what she 'd thought it was . |
| 3 | Or , in Sainsbury-ad speak : Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers . |
| 4 | Then we run tepid water and wash off the dried blood . |
| 5 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 6 | A few carefully placed lamps will provide atmosphere and show off the surrounding plants . |
| 7 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 8 | Given a large corpse of anything on the bottom of the Amazon or even the Thames , most fish will ‘ attack ’ and gnaw off the odd bit . |
| 9 | Pigs are sandwiched between rhinos and hippos in the encyclopedia , and kick off the even-toed ungulates — ‘ The most spectacular and diverse array of large , land-dwelling mammals alive today . ’ |
| 10 | The Algarve for a beach , sports , lolling kind of family holiday , the rest of the country for sightseeing and travel off the beaten track . |
| 11 | During a slow lap on Friday , the first day of practice , Mansell had gone off line slightly and it was enough to have the Williams slide into a tyre barrier and snap off the right-hand suspension . |
| 12 | Gloria closed the sliding door , pulled down the blinds , and switched off the six lamps which Dot had just put on . |
| 13 | Jack drove the car as near as he could towards the station building and switched off the faltering engine . |
| 14 | As Kalchu and I and some of the other men set out for home , they started to gather it up and hack off the dead branches that jut out from pine-trunks like thin stumps of arms . |
| 15 | • Use skimmed or semi-skimmed milk rather than full-fat milk ; • Use cream less often on desserts and not at all in cooking ; • Have only three or four eggs a week ; • Buy more yogurt and less hard cheese ; • Eat less red meat and trim off the visible fat ; • Eat fewer fatty meat products such as sausages , meat pies , and burgers ; • Cut down on fatty snacks such as crisps ; • Use less pastry in cooking and buy fewer foods that incorporate pastry ; • Use less fat in cooking ; • If you are having a take-away meal such as fish and chips , leave some of the smaller , fattier chips usually found at the bottom of the bag . |
| 16 | ( b ) Half fill the basket with soil/compost and trim off the excess hessian . |
| 17 | Cut the stem cleanly just beneath a leaf joint ( unless it is one of those for which a ‘ heel ’ of old wood is best left on ) , and trim off the lower leaves . |
| 18 | Cut the top centimetre from a carrot and trim off the old leaves . |
| 19 | Remove the slide and the coverslip and rinse off the staining mixture using de-ionized water . |
| 20 | If a villager migrates to Bombay and makes a living as a hawker , he probably has to bribe a cop to stay in business and pay off the local mafia don . |
| 21 | In addition we were going to have to buy the premises for £95,000 , and pay off the old debts . |
| 22 | Or , if you can get a lower rate of interest , you could re-mortgage , ie , take out a larger loan with a new lender and pay off the old mortgage . |
| 23 | I roll a joint and turn off the bright neon , leaving us with the sultry lilac glow of a smaller and older lamp , the first I ever bought . |
| 24 | Press down the edges to seal and trim off the excess pastry . |
| 25 | They may or may not be articulated in formal jargon or ‘ in languages ’ which restrict their currency and mark off the professional status or their practitioners , as in medicine and the law . |
| 26 | Mr Bush turned to attacks in a last bid to keep his job and pull off the political upset of the century and ripped into ‘ the slippery one ’ as a man who can not be trusted during a hectic five-state blitz to shore up his support . |
| 27 | Soul II Soul take a British approach to race relations and pull off the difficult trick of combining black pride sentiments with a benevolent multiracialism . |
| 28 | Firstly , jump up and collect the shield , then go left , jump on the platform to your left and then the platform on your right , grab the weight , climb the right wall and throw the weight on the switch , jump/fly up onto the block on the wall , go left and cross the gap on the swing , fly up two platforms and run right , go under the guillotine , jump up the pipe and collect a weight , walk left and fall off the last platform , throw the weight on the switch , go left and use the fly to climb up the platform , take the weight and throw it on the switch above you . |
| 29 | Japanese handpainted pictures adorn the walls and set off the elegant porcelain figurines , while the walnut dining table is from Hong Kong . |
| 30 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |