Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] off [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Get some syphon tubing from a shop that sells home-brewing equipment and cut off a manageable length . |
| 4 | Then we run tepid water and wash off the dried blood . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Algarve for a beach , sports , lolling kind of family holiday , the rest of the country for sightseeing and travel off the beaten track . |
| 8 | He wanted to hold him safe from every profaning touch , and fend off every malignant thought from him . |
| 9 | To fill the vertical joints , turn the hawk and separate off a small amount of mortar , lifting it on the underside of the trowel |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | • 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 . |
| 12 | ( b ) Half fill the basket with soil/compost and trim off the excess hessian . |
| 13 | Remove the slide and the coverslip and rinse off the staining mixture using de-ionized water . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | During an unprecedented Balmoral summit , he will thrash out a pay-as-you-earn plan with the Queen and stave off a constitutional crisis . |
| 18 | Some people carry a ten dollar bill , to keep the potential mugger happy and stave off an angry attack . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |