Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unix System Labs has decided to hold off announcing a Destiny branding programme at Unix Expo ( UX No 401 ) : we have a sneaking suspicion they 're trying to put together a deal with 88open for compatibility test suites . |
| 2 | Everybody says that 's what 's going to happen , but erm when it 's been done in the past I 've not had any figures produced that indicate that the service provision has had to fall off because of increased charges . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid our regular chap has had to cry off . |
| 4 | Nula , 32 , of North London , has had to fight off an attacker at a bus stop and survive a nightmare ride with a sinister mini-cab driver . |
| 5 | Well the light has got to come off and you 've got to drop a perpendicular so that you know , cut the paper straight , it helps if you put it up straight instead of wonky . |
| 6 | Unemployment grew rapidly to 1982 and has tended to level off since then . |
| 7 | Since taking over as Brazil 's manager on 6 January , Sebastiano Lazaroni has attempted to pull off a transformation that has hitherto seemed impossible in Brazilian football . |
| 8 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 9 | But , despite such efforts , the technology has refused to take off commercially . |
| 10 | Secondly , a dear friend of mine has gone wandering off with a person I 'm fairly sure is addicted to a very nasty personality altering drug . |
| 11 | Fearing that any investigation into this anti-communist network might be a prelude to his own eviction from the presidential palace , Mr Cossiga has tried to fight off all attempts to question him about Gladio . |
| 12 | To prove she has n't she has started leaving off her trademark scarves to reveal a beautiful , swan-like neck . |
| 13 | Grima says that he is simply grateful that he has started to work off his eight-match suspension . |
| 14 | For example , O supplies a car to P on hire purchase terms and P , before he has finished paying off his instalments , sells the car to a bona fide private purchaser , Q , who is unaware of the hire purchase agreement . |
| 15 | SPAIN 'S King Juan Carlos has vowed to fight off any attempts by the EC to ban bull fighting . |
| 16 | SKY 's live satellite soccer has failed to lift off with viewers according to official figures released yesterday . |
| 17 | The Dowty group has failed to fight off a hostile bid by T-I , one of Britain 's largest engineering firms . |
| 18 | Bobby Fowke has managed to shake off his injury and plays … |
| 19 | An aerospace company will hear tomorrow whether it has managed to fight off a takeover bid . |
| 20 | One of the region 's independent breweries has managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid — at least for the time being . |
| 21 | If you heard that someone had taken an amethyst to bed with them , you 'd probably think that they 'd forgotten to take off their jewellery . |
| 22 | We only caught her because she 'd forgotten to take off one of the tags . ’ |
| 23 | It had been ever since he 'd dropped Hitch off . |
| 24 | I 'd avoided stopping off to see mum and dad . |
| 25 | Instead of having to cancel a trip to the Blue Mountains , she 'd had to put off a trip to the Blue Danube . |
| 26 | Now she was visible again , she 'd had to take off her shoes in order to walk on the glass floor without slipping , and she could n't feel her feet . |
| 27 | He 'd had to break off for lack of an English verb that he remembered as soon as Bacci pronounced it . |
| 28 | If she 'd wanted to go off with someone else , she would just have said so . |
| 29 | For so long I 'd managed to hold off your curiosity but I was near to breaking-point . |
| 30 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |