Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] off [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the vessel is left unattended moored or anchored off an exposed beach or shore no claim will be payable for breaking adrift from the mooring or anchor and the subsequent damage . |
| 2 | Inflation of the theatricality of the social drama leads detectives to lay emphasis on ‘ the big job ’ and the arrest of the professional ‘ prig ’ who commits the big burglary or pulls off a daring robbery . |
| 3 | Just fill in and send off the Free Trial Card . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Or , in Sainsbury-ad speak : Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers . |
| 6 | Get some syphon tubing from a shop that sells home-brewing equipment and cut off a manageable length . |
| 7 | Then we run tepid water and wash off the dried blood . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A few carefully placed lamps will provide atmosphere and show off the surrounding plants . |
| 10 | The distribution was apparently hampered by strict curfew regulations , imposed in the occupied territories as a security measure since the morning of Jan. 16 in view of the level of popular support for Saddam Hussein and to ward off a fresh upsurge in the Palestinian intifada . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Had the sentry panicked at the sound of a galloping horse and fired off a lucky shot , or was there a more sinister design ? |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | The Algarve for a beach , sports , lolling kind of family holiday , the rest of the country for sightseeing and travel off the beaten track . |
| 16 | He wanted to hold him safe from every profaning touch , and fend off every malignant thought from him . |
| 17 | Ten black men took a sledge-hammer to the work , and knocked off a large part of his face . |
| 18 | To fill the vertical joints , turn the hawk and separate off a small amount of mortar , lifting it on the underside of the trowel |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The result will also give a huge lift to Alex Ferguson 's Manchester United team who were originally due to travel to Norwich today but went there instead on Tuesday and pulled off a significant victory . |
| 21 | From these depths , England went to India and pulled off a remarkable triumph after losing the first Test , and then beat Australia 3–1 in 1985 . |
| 22 | Mr Corden took over as chairman in 1989 and pulled off an immediate coup by appointing Brian Little as manager . |
| 23 | Philip picked up the roll of wire from beside the hide and clipped off a good length of wire . |
| 24 | Jack drove the car as near as he could towards the station building and switched off the faltering engine . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | • 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 . |
| 27 | ( b ) Half fill the basket with soil/compost and trim off the excess hessian . |
| 28 | Cut the top centimetre from a carrot and trim off the old leaves . |
| 29 | Remove the slide and the coverslip and rinse off the staining mixture using de-ionized water . |
| 30 | 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 . |