Example sentences of "and [verb] off [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hastings , who has played only 40 minutes on the tour , increased speculation that all was not well when he declined a round of golf today significant as the Watsonians star is a golf fanatic and plays off a seven handicap . |
| 2 | Just fill in and send off the Free Trial Card . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Or , in Sainsbury-ad speak : Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers . |
| 5 | Get some syphon tubing from a shop that sells home-brewing equipment and cut off a manageable length . |
| 6 | Then we run tepid water and wash off the dried blood . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A few carefully placed lamps will provide atmosphere and show off the surrounding plants . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Had the sentry panicked at the sound of a galloping horse and fired off a lucky shot , or was there a more sinister design ? |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | The Algarve for a beach , sports , lolling kind of family holiday , the rest of the country for sightseeing and travel off the beaten track . |
| 15 | He wanted to hold him safe from every profaning touch , and fend off every malignant thought from him . |
| 16 | Ten black men took a sledge-hammer to the work , and knocked off a large part of his face . |
| 17 | To fill the vertical joints , turn the hawk and separate off a small amount of mortar , lifting it on the underside of the trowel |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mr Corden took over as chairman in 1989 and pulled off an immediate coup by appointing Brian Little as manager . |
| 22 | Philip picked up the roll of wire from beside the hide and clipped off a good length of wire . |
| 23 | Gloria closed the sliding door , pulled down the blinds , and switched off the six lamps which Dot had just put on . |
| 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 stem cleanly just beneath a leaf joint ( unless it is one of those for which a ‘ heel ’ of old wood is best left on ) , and trim off the lower leaves . |
| 29 | Cut the top centimetre from a carrot and trim off the old leaves . |
| 30 | Remove the slide and the coverslip and rinse off the staining mixture using de-ionized water . |