Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If students are going to be landed with a debt at the end of three years , they are going to choose vocational courses so that they can be certain of getting a job when they graduate and so pay off the loan . ’ |
| 2 | Doctors who are known to carry out abortions merely pay off the necessary authorities and are rarely persecuted . |
| 3 | There 's something about that flight … every time you do it , you just get off the plane shaking your head and thinking how incredibly tolerant the staff are . |
| 4 | Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees , and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue . |
| 5 | State administrative agencies thus feed off the results of interest-group pressure , and interest groups find in the administration multiple points of access through which they can influence the formulation of government policy . |
| 6 | Some parents just switch off the alarm after the initial wetting , fail to change the bed , and leave the child so that there is no real opportunity for the child to learn . |
| 7 | Yet when the rich who largely live off the proceeds of other people 's labour are marginally threatened we are supposed to feel concern at the loss of ‘ incentive ’ this might entail . |
| 8 | Just take off the clothes . ’ |
| 9 | Oh no I hate it when than ha when that happens , you fucking pull off the corner and the top do n't come off . |
| 10 | Sometimes , some of them would try and be clever and just step off the pavement . |
| 11 | In Somerset , the old drove-ways still branch off the main routes into the moors , like spines on a stickleback . |
| 12 | TRAWLER skipper Peter Storey , 44 , netted his biggest ever catch off the Sussex coast yesterday — 130lb of can-nabis in a cylinder worth £250,000 . |
| 13 | Electrics Always turn off the television , video and stereo when they are not in use . |
| 14 | Always turn off the water at the mains stopcock first ( or tie up the ballvalve ) and turn on all taps ( provided the sink and basin wastes are n't frozen up ! ) and then attempt to trace the position of the burst . |
| 15 | Perhaps the easiest way around this is to make a note of which side you started and only ever turn off the machine when the carriage is on that side . |
| 16 | Carefully prise off the end battens . |
| 17 | With the blackest hair she had ever seen , swept straight back off the forehead . |
| 18 | Turn the cooked sponge on to this and carefully peel off the paper . |
| 19 | Another idea is to coat one side of clean leaves with melted chocolate , leave to set and then carefully peel off the leaves . |
| 20 | Ease the cheesecake out of the tin and carefully peel off the foil to serve it . |
| 21 | I jump so hard I nearly fall off the board . |
| 22 | I could tell she was angry and I was ready to cry , but Frankie pulled me roughly back off the step and we turned to leave . |
| 23 | While carrying out research for my book , Our Treacherous Hearts : Why Women Let Men Get Their Way ( Faber & Faber , £14.99 ) , I found that men are not only often let off the hook by women , but are actively ‘ idealised ’ by them . |
| 24 | Now clear off the pair of yer . ’ |
| 25 | Now get off the phone , Robert , for Christ 's sake . ’ |
| 26 | Following Botham Wanderers ' defeat , we now move off the bottom for the first time in four months . |
| 27 | When we cook potatoes or vegetables , we often scrape off the outer layer , which is most nutritious ( i.e. the fibrous bit just under the skin ) , then boil off any remaining vitamins into the water , which is then poured down the sink . |
| 28 | Will the right hon. Gentleman now throw off the veto of his Minister of State and have the courage to meet us to argue and discuss the case ? |
| 29 | In the distance was a large L-shaped residence , also well back off the road . |
| 30 | Simply peel off the cover , pop the plastic pack in the microwave and in no time at all you have a tasty meal for one . |