Example sentences of "take off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes off the SLEEPER 's crown , kisses it . |
| 2 | Still , their local knowledge is invaluable : the club selection , for example , and the line one takes off the distance church steeple on holes coming home . |
| 3 | The camel drops ; the guy takes off the sheet and I 'm blinded for about two minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's got to be a magician who takes off the spell . |
| 5 | McDermott takes off the top of a zombie 's head with a shovel — done with a trick shovel by reversing the action , then using a dummy in long shot . |
| 6 | The GHI taste panel takes off the wrapping and tucks in |
| 7 | Come here and let me take off the spell . ’ |
| 8 | He really needs to get to see and take off the stuff that . |
| 9 | Even if it were possible to identify a certain causal agent inside someone 's head we certainly can not take off the top of the skull and mend it ! |
| 10 | If you start to feel too warm you can always take off the hat and gloves . |
| 11 | Your balls are well separated , I mean , the best I can do is take off the yellow , then I can make the . |
| 12 | The bottom half of the page is how much she gets for every ten pounds she 's got to spend , but before we find out she 's got to spend , what we 've got to do is take off the policy fee . |
| 13 | So I bought a tin , a five litre of white silk emulsion , brilliant white emulsion , erm a two litre drum , a thing of white spirit a pack of erm wool , steel wool , cos I 'm taking off the varnish off the doors , they 're coming up quite nicely ! |
| 14 | He was considering taking off the play . |
| 15 | I was a passenger in a microlight and just after taking off the engine spluttered and we had to make an emergency landing . |
| 16 | This is arrived at by taking the selling price prevailing at the end of the year £140 less the costs per bed of advertising , delivery etc. of £10 making a net selling price of £130 , and taking off the cost of beds at the end of the period , i.e. £120 . |
| 17 | Taking off the net , Robert felt the reflexes then examined the arm and drew Sophie to inspect the damage . |
| 18 | Taking off the stethoscope , she turned to the herdsman . |
| 19 | " I think I must have been mad , " said Mrs Denham , taking off the tea pot lid and staring nervously into its smoky silver depths . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not taking off the table the fact that we keep this constantly under review , ’ he declares , ‘ and when this redraft comes up then we 're going to look at it very carefully . ’ |
| 21 | Taking off the lid , he saw a sheet of white tissue-paper . |
| 22 | Shelving covered the back two walls , whilst to the right was a biscuit stand containing some dozen tins , stacked at an angle so that by just taking off the lid , biscuits could be removed . |
| 23 | Ruth took off the cloak , shivering — though , if anything , the sun seemed to reach her more warmly now . |
| 24 | " Hey , " he said , " was it — are you the guy who made those commercials , the ones they took off the air ? " |
| 25 | Nash , a scrupulous and sensitive antiquarian , tells us what happened next : ‘ The body , I believe , is perfect , as it has never been opened : we thought it indelicate and indecent to uncover it ; but observing the left hand to lie at a small distance from the body , we took off the cerecloth , and found the hand and nails perfect , but of a brownish colour : the cerecloth consisted of many folds of coarse linen , dipped in wax , tar , and perhaps some gums : over this was wrapt a sheet of lead fitted exactly close to the body . ’ |
| 26 | There 's one firm that had about nine buses took off the road try trying to cut corners as well . |
| 27 | Alice took off the cotton dress which was what young mothers wore in Chelmsford to shop in , put on jeans and a black T-shirt , the kind of clothes she would always wear now , through an indefinitely stretching future . |
| 28 | Half an hour later he took off the dressing-gown and decided to go downstairs . |
| 29 | I never took off the signet [ Leslie now wrote ] and never would admit to myself why I did n't . |
| 30 | Slowly he righted himself and took off the mask , although she could not see his face for she was not looking at him . |