Example sentences of "[verb] off [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is bactericidal and will kill off all the beneficial bacteria in your filter and on the surface of your gravel , probably causing a sudden rise in nitrates which will finish off even the hardiest fry . |
| 2 | The Canterbury spar is raked over occasionally to break up any ‘ dead spots ’ in the filter and surface mulm is syphoned off once every fortnight . |
| 3 | The infantry detailed to guard them let off only a couple of volleys before also taking to their heels . |
| 4 | At the moment unc or ⅓ of the building is lit up , so if half of these are turned off then the problem really amounts to working out ½ of ⅓ |
| 5 | Another rifleman had bartered some of his Red Cross parcel for a loaf of bread ; ‘ The conditions of living and surviving had made us all as cunning as foxes ’ , so this rifleman that night slept with it under his neck , but someone crept up and cut off both the ends . |
| 6 | The front door slammed shut , and cut off abruptly the babble of the family 's voices . |
| 7 | Pick off just the first flush of flowers from the ever-bearing kinds . |
| 8 | His knowledge of Birkdale paid off handsomely a few years later as he accompanied Arnold Palmer to Palmer 's first Open win . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , as the tranquillizer wears off so the plunger gradually slides back up and the former level of stress returns . |
| 10 | Thinking there was too much water in the system , rather than too little , they turned off even the emergency cooling system which had by then been activated . |
| 11 | I know that er the seminar which I attended sparked off quite a lot of lively er debate . |
| 12 | We set off over an hour late due to a problem with the truck which was supposed to take us to our setting-off point . |
| 13 | At the same time , cars were numbered in accordance with the time they set off so the thousands of spectators that lined the route could get some indication who was leading . |
| 14 | The job had just kicked off so the blokes used to just the phone inside you know if they wanted . |
| 15 | Britain 's former No. 1 U–18 player Gary Drake , now 22-years-old , pulled off easily the result of the third round , defeating the Middlesex side 's No. 1 — previously unbeaten — Chris Clark in a close three-setter to open up an early lead . |
| 16 | Leopold and Wolfgang went to masked balls and Wolfgang gave several concerts and took part in a contest of keyboard skills with another ex-child prodigy , Ignaz von Beecke , coming off somewhat the worse . |
| 17 | To his horror , Legia — obviously inspired by American television — decided to make him the $6m man , a fee which inevitably frightened off even the wealthy Italians . |
| 18 | We started off about a year ago , looking at recycling that 's available in which is just basically the paper , cans and glass out at the park car park . |
| 19 | Very hectic at the moment it 's should 've normally been dropping off quite a lot this time but |
| 20 | They took off immediately the passengers were on board . ‘ |
| 21 | The way to avoid this disaster is to behead gradually — we took off about a third of the top growth every 7–10 days , so that the final beheading can be completed just above the implant by the end of March or mid April . |
| 22 | After breaking ahead of his experienced Brazilian rival , Jose-Luis Barbosa , he simply stretched out the five-man field , only stepping on the accelerator off the last bend to hold off comfortably the late surge of runner-up , Belgian Luc Bernaert . |
| 23 | a sleep timer that programmes the TV to turn off automatically a display on the screen , giving details of the channel , volume , contrast and brightness |
| 24 | Although the gliders were left facing at right angles to the wind and were weighted down with tyres in the approved manner , when the first strong thermal went off nearby the wind would become gusty and change direction completely . |
| 25 | It went off only a couple of days after the meeting . |
| 26 | And as you can see , even after three print I 've managed to lift off quite a lot of scum from the surface . |
| 27 | Gives off quite a lot of heat . |
| 28 | Barrie Clarke … says it was a tough race so much mud and he got thrown off quite a few times |
| 29 | He ran off almost an entire film that day , mostly on views , but of all the shots this one was the best of them . |
| 30 | In any context , if a debt is ever fully paid off then the relationship between debtor and creditor ceases to exist . |