Example sentences of "[noun sg] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You get the youngsters that hare off down the road . |
| 2 | The officers took the tot off to the station , gave her breakfast and put out the radio appeal . |
| 3 | ‘ On a 500 you 're really only washing a bit of speed off with the front . |
| 4 | Her friends pushed the boat off down the river and ran across the fields to get round to the bridge . |
| 5 | Instead , a bit of string was used to secure the bridle strap and Fred galloped the horse off to the start . |
| 6 | Secondly , the zone of tension between the Soviet Union and the West allowed national liberation movements to play one side off against the other : on the one hand , fear of ‘ communism ’ induced some colonial powers to make political concessions , while on the other the Soviet Union often provided political support , arms and training to these movements . |
| 7 | If you 're worried about electricity bills , turn the monitor off at the end of the day . |
| 8 | Having done everything in your tank preparations to avoid new tank syndrome , you can still set in motion some of the attendant problems if you start your new stock off on the wrong fin . |
| 9 | Well I 've turned the one in the bedroom off for the moment cos if in the daytime if your mum 's up re resting |
| 10 | I might add , very briefly , I mean this is a spin off of the traditional aircraft situation , where they 're being used |
| 11 | So the spin off on the electorate is perhaps well , does it really matter ? |
| 12 | There is another spin off for the estate agent of course |
| 13 | Erm but I do feel that there is likely to be some positive spin off for the factories . |
| 14 | They represent a viable spin off from the THORP project control and instrumentation activities . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If he blows his mouth off before the Wee GP , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm for castration . |
| 16 | I ca n't think of the name of the other German beer but the roll-on roll-off 'll be out in the dock , cos we had a roll-on roll- off in the dock at all |
| 17 | The golfclub head , large crop , strong breast muscles create these and they taper off to the tail with a harmonious unity . |
| 18 | They were , however , segregated in a separate compartment off to the right and screened by a heavy grille , through which , nevertheless , some of the women contrived to allow themselves to be seen . |
| 19 | Walkman , alarm clock , my winter pyjamas ( too hot , I 'd thrown the duvet off in the middle of the night ) , my wash-'n'-make-up bag , and necessities . |
| 20 | I asked her to slack off on the ginger a bit |
| 21 | In light of the prohibitive estimates received for the fencing off of the play area and the laying of rubber slabs around the sand pit the nursery staff have decided to go ahead with their own restricted plans . |
| 22 | The most informal interview will be one where the interviewer , having once started the interview off on the theme in which he is interested , allows the informant to dictate the subsequent situation . |
| 23 | On this hypothesis one would expect the eastern spit , Sandbanks peninsula in the case of Poole Harbour , to be in a state of decay due to the cutting off of the supply of material by the breach . |
| 24 | In defence of the faith , in defence of his crown , he had no choice but to stand rigidly upon the law , but every cutting off of the least citizen was a maiming of his own nation and his own body , and he found no remedy against the grief and horror into which his own procedures cast him . |
| 25 | On Thursday 3 October , a bomb caused a large crater in London Road , Thornton Heath , between Dunheved Road North and Dunheved Road South , cutting the depôt off from the rest of the Croydon system . |
| 26 | He 'd tried to frighten Jacqui off with the telephone messages and vicious note , but if she persisted … |
| 27 | The Bush Administration sent the whole issue off to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) in December last year . |
| 28 | You need to present a united front and avoid taking sides or playing one child off against the other . |
| 29 | The child may gravitate to the parent that is easier to manipulate or try to play one parent off against the other . |
| 30 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |