Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 2 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 3 | The first ship date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target . |
| 4 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 5 | By now a total of 26 reservoirs had been sealed off throughout the country mainly owing to blooms of blue-green algae . |
| 6 | The plant will be effectively sealed off from the world apart from periodic inspection and monitoring visits by skilled staff . |
| 7 | Three 12year-olds were rescued by the Tynemouth inshore lifeboat after being cut off by the tide just south of the Marsden Grotto at South Shields . |
| 8 | So it 's fitting that his collection of fishing tackle is being auctioned off in the town tomorrow . |
| 9 | All of which you will be tired of hearing but it has been brought about by my great fear that my husband will be taken off by the Brownings once more , this time to France and there is nothing we can do to prevent it they being the masters of our fate . |
| 10 | Using this , make a box 375mm square and 375mm high , with a lid that can be taken off in the spring so that the box can be cleaned . |
| 11 | He reached ground level unharmed and , discounting the thought of trying to retrieve his car from the courtyard , headed off towards the street most heavily trafficked at this time of night , which was Kennington Park Road . |