Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Perks , who plays off a handicap of five , is a member of Baron Hill Golf Club , Beaumaris . |
| 2 | Mrs Harris , who plays off a handicap of 12 , joined the club in 1964 and plays for the club team . |
| 3 | The warning cry came from Petion , who got off a single shot at Richmann before the mercenary major swung the Winchester around and fired it with a roar . |
| 4 | Robert Meister in his book Hypochondria writes : ‘ Those physicians who shrug off a suffering patient because they regard his condition as psychosomatic or hypochondriacal are not acting as professional healers … |
| 5 | Police alerted electricity staff , who cut off the deadly high-voltage supply following the accident at the Lancaster Canal , five miles north of Preston , Lancs . |
| 6 | One was a rather patrician young man from a firm of London stockbrokers who played off a single figure handicap at Sunningdale and was a special guest of the chairman of the sponsoring company . |
| 7 | Ludmila Andrews ' Mad , Bad Mortal Beings is about the emotional turmoil of a black woman recovering from a relationship , and Sonali Fernando 's Shakti is a brief fable about a trash-collecting Asian woman who sees off a white yob with sort-of magic powers and struts around in funky transformed shoes . |
| 8 | For the same reason the doctor , medical attendant , or other who turned off a ventilator in this situation would be guilty of murder . |
| 9 | THE biggest sporting deal in history might be good news for the football clubs who kick off the new Premier League but will it be good for soccer and its followers ? |
| 10 | Actually , it was Cook who killed off the revue form . |
| 11 | Haslemere sweeper Ferguson and the defence of Crombie , Hull and man-of-the-match Cracknell were pushed to protect 'keeper Bradshaw who pulled off a remarkable stick save . |
| 12 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 13 | He gave an order to the driver , who switched off the car motor . |
| 14 | Another report tells of a Mrs Yvonne Bliss who fell off a boat in the West Indies . |
| 15 | Mr Evans , who fell off a mountain |
| 16 | He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends . |
| 17 | There was nothing here for the average tourist , nothing for my friends Jim and Mary , who go off every year on a package tour . |
| 18 | Firstly , he points to the recommendations contained in the Wolfenden Report and argues that if society were not able to pronounce homosexuality morally wrong , then there would be no basis for a law which aims to protect youth from ‘ corruption ’ , or for punishing men who live off the earnings of a homosexual prostitute . |
| 19 | It was followed by the deprivations of greedy Swiss , repressive Austrians , revolutionary French , barbaric Germans and the huge , unpaid army of tourists and expatriates who live off the land and commit their own atrocities . |
| 20 | NORTHOP Village , who carried off a league and cup double last season , are in danger of folding after losing their pitch . |
| 21 | With just four minutes remaining , though , the stalest of stalemates was broken by Chelsea captain Andy Townsend , who rounded off an immensely difficult few days for Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson . |