Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also has substantial material advantages — the ability to raise loans is greater , the opportunity for setting off and writing off business expenses are more generous and , because tax to be paid at the end of any one financial year is assessed in relation to the previous year 's results , organisations with a growing turnover have a lower effective tax rate than they would if tax were assessed on current activities . |
| 2 | These tend to provide an excuse for putting off coaching and this is why some organizations are now insisting that coaching is built into the management role more formally . |
| 3 | He caught a youth breaking into a car and also won a Post Office award for fighting off two men trying to break into his van . |
| 4 | Terrence Duncan was given a three-month suspended jail sentence for living off immoral earnings . |
| 5 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
| 6 | Pre-election talk about cutting off thieves ' hands and stoning adulterers is no longer heard . |
| 7 | The mind has an astonishing aptitude for skating off at tangents . |
| 8 | Daley beat Mabbutt and Cundy in the 86th minute to score Villa 's fourth and , a minute from the end , Regis completed Tottenham humiliation after brushing off a Bergsson 's weak challenge . |
| 9 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 10 | The result of browsing off hedges and other plants , not just grass , goat manure normally has the most balanced NPK content of any , and is worth its weight in gold . |
| 11 | We found the locals do n't like to talk about it for fear of putting off money-spinning tourists . |
| 12 | His next letter offered her marriage to save her from the dreadful future of stripping off that she would be subjected to otherwise . |
| 13 | In very few seasons , the practice of jumping off mountains with a ram-air parachute in tow , and prolonged descents with steerable harness has accelerated design at a rapid rate . |
| 14 | But the academic mind , and the exigencies of the academic career , have had the effect of splitting off academic approaches to literature from the ‘ reading ’ , in that word 's widest sense , of ordinary people … |
| 15 | If you were a professional model I should probably require you to take every stitch of clothing off , let alone your shoes and stockings , and , if you will remember , it is on the grounds of the business-like aspect of this arrangement that I have your aunt 's sanction to paint you . |
| 16 | For , " return " , he gives us " renew their birth " ; for ( " dare " ) he has " put off their fear " ( with a discreet word-play ? putting off fear like putting off a garment ? ) ; for , " the brief prime of the year " ; for , " then back to wintertide , when nothing stirs " ; for ? , " what tongue has told ? " ; for the single word ( compression indeed ) , a clause , " what thy heart has had " ; for , " Diana steads him nothing , he must stay " ( rhyming with " take away " ) . |
| 17 | The route then follows the Ebor Way for a stretch before veering off right just before Hollin Hill Plantation . |
| 18 | Her breakfast finished , she showered and dressed in a beige and white skirt and plain beige top and , after a slight struggle with the clasp , fastened her gold locket around her neck before setting off to explore . |
| 19 | THE sleek sports car races along the deserted road , gathering speed before roaring off into the distance . |
| 20 | He got to his feet , leaving a handful of coins for the bill , then came round to her , bending to give her a swift , hard kiss on the mouth before striding off . |
| 21 | They were mindful of Carter 's mistake at the beginning of his term in setting off too many policy hares at the cost of a focused programme with a clear sense of priorities . |
| 22 | Hector McDarroch , on the other band , seemed to take a pleasure in showing off his grisly implements , filling the long-needled syringe right in front of my eyes and squirting the cocaine ceilingwards a few times before he started on me . |
| 23 | Loretta frowned to herself , aware that Geoffrey was taking great pleasure in showing off his superior knowledge . |
| 24 | Actually it was a primitive attempt at passing off a filler as a science programme . |
| 25 | Almost immediately , Walker responded by withdrawing the ineffective Darren Beckford for Chris Sutton , Beckford registering his disappointment by tearing off his shirt and disappearing straight down the tunnel . |
| 26 | He argued the congested roads and lack of parking spaces adversely affected the town 's all-important tourist industry by putting off visitors . |
| 27 | He begins without ceremony by pulling off the blouse and flinging it in the gully . |
| 28 | While she gabbled on Spittals stopped rubbing his hands and , with his eyes on the demented fly , expressed disbelief by taking off his jacket and cradling his head in his hands . |
| 29 | So the cat is almost certainly performing a mimicry display , reacting like a snake in the hope of triggering off some deep-seated fear of a venomous bite in the assailant 's mind . |
| 30 | Sherif must accept the price he is offered if the five families are to have any hope of paying off their lengthening tab at the provisioner 's and if — haha , a'haha — they want their thin children to live to grow thinner ! |