Example sentences of "[verb] off [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat with the chicken pot in her lap , tearing off pieces of the bird and handing them round . |
| 2 | Oxton just failed to pull off victory at Hightown on a rain affected wicket . |
| 3 | Markets shrug off rise in inflation |
| 4 | Others merely shrug off questions with ‘ your guess is as good as mine ’ . |
| 5 | Biggest home win was a month ago against Halifax , so they need to find this form again to shake off Colchester at Edgar Street . |
| 6 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 7 | Dogs charged about grinning , plunging into the green pond , emerging to shake off volleys of water . |
| 8 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 9 | However , how many times have you seen your ball deviate off course at the last moment due to someone not repairing their pitch mark ? |
| 10 | So he headed off demands for a capital levy , knowing it to be unacceptable to his party , but Britain nevertheless paid for a higher proportion of the costs of the war from taxation than the other combatants ; he was also able to launch the Victory Loan of 1917 at an interest rate of only 5 per cent , having a surer sense of the patriotism of potential subscribers than did the Treasury . |
| 11 | Question : What starts off life as a salmon , goes to a plaice and ends up with a sole ? |
| 12 | As the novel progresses , more and more details ( like the protagonists ' arrival at an island not marked on any charts ) are released which trigger off fears of their being the victims of conspiracy . |
| 13 | Each is dusting off schemes for supporting innovative industry . |
| 14 | Like Camdessus , Conable urged creditor nations to write off debt to the poorest nations [ see also p. 37731 for LDC conference in Paris ] and claimed that a 10 per cent cut in military spending by members of NATO would free enough resources to double development assistance . |
| 15 | In January 1990 the United States agreed to write off debts worth $178,400,000 , and in February France agreed to write off F1,330 million ( approximately equivalent to $234 million as at Feb. 5 , 1990 ) of official debt . |
| 16 | He would n't have dreamed that a superior mind in the Thames Valley was planning to cross the gulf of space with an expedition living off supplies of pineapples and nuts . |
| 17 | Conversely , when facilities are made available , LIFESPAN users may send off transactions to LIFESPAN for processing as normal . |
| 18 | I do this simply to bracket off questions about how experiences relate to the world and thus to concentrate on the question of subjectivity . |
| 19 | As they poured in further canfuls , I encouraged them to work out the amounts mentally by rounding off £1.19 to £1.20 , and taking away 1p . |
| 20 | So everybody got back round the table , fended off panic about the deadline galloping towards them — the image had to be in place for next week 's programme launch — and tried to figure out what next to do . |
| 21 | Olivetti should show off Destiny on its MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based platform . |
| 22 | At the same time , there are reports that workers ' militias had been used to cordon off streets during the demonstration in Leipzig on Monday night when some 10,000 people marched through the streets chanting ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ and calling for the legalisation of the opposition group New Forum . |
| 23 | The Junkers drained the banks to the very limit of their credit and were then forced to sell off plots of land to repay the interest on their debts and refinance their lifestyle . |
| 24 | Before his birthday the trustees paid off all of his considerable personal debts , so that he could start afresh , but the Earl was not impressed by their suggestions that thrift was required and as soon as he took control he began to sell off parcels of the ancient family lands , all to finance his expensive tastes . |
| 25 | He ran out of money and had to sell off 40% of his company , and only after six to seven years and scores of design failures did he finally begin to make some money from his enterprise . |
| 26 | In a US property , a guest let off steam to the bartender because his room was not ready and it was already late . |
| 27 | Most just let off steam by shouting and screaming , but one in five admitted to lashing out . |
| 28 | As there was no established pattern of dancing attached to ‘ trad ’ they let off steam by inventing their own steps , often with wild abandon . |
| 29 | We let off steam in graffiti , vandalism and football hooliganism . |
| 30 | The Burtons let off part of the house and lived in the rest . |