Example sentences of "that [vb -s] off the " in BNC.
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1 | Do you have easy access to the stop cock that turns off the water ? |
2 | Up to twenty five percent of all water that drains off the Earth , is carried by the Amazon . |
3 | A son of the manse , he lends to Labour the dark Church of Scotland tones that can make the recession sound as bleak as the wind that whips off the Firth of Forth in midwinter . |
4 | In the Dante Room that leads off the Bedroom ( which contains a collection of early Murano glass ) is a magnificent stained-glass windows by Giuseppe Bertini , dating from the mid-nineteenth-century . |
5 | If you ask somebody what 's the explanation for a fact you may have noticed if you walked down the Strand here just from the School , if you 're observant , I 'm sure you 've , you 've all instantly noticed as you walked by , that Strand Street , which is a short street that , sorry , I 'm , Savoy Street , which is a short street that leads off the Strand into the Savoy Hotel , is an exception to the rule , that in England you drive on the left , because in Stra in Savoy Street , you drive on the right . |
6 | Not a turn of phrase that trips off the tongue of Batman 's sidekick , Robin , but a reality , or seeming reality , in medieval Europe . |
7 | There would be a short handover period , er it would have to be administered , but from where we sit , we 're going to actually submit a bid that sees off the competition . |
8 | I have a tin-opener that cuts off the whole top of the tin under the rim and leaves a blunt edge . |
9 | It ionizes , causes the current to be completed and then that sets off the alarm . |
10 | Everybody knows that it 's the fissioning of an atom bomb that triggers off the fusion of a hydrogen bomb . ’ |
11 | It 's a river that runs off the Medway . |