Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has proved reliable , and the fact that it is four-wheel drive is very handy if you 're coping with a greasy slipway or launching off a beach , ’ says Peaks . |
| 2 | People doing market research , or marking off a check list will then enter data by ticking boxes . |
| 3 | Just a scrape and snipping off a polyp . ’ |
| 4 | It 's only a minor op , after all , and snipping off a polyp , so I do n't think I shall bother to go up tonight — we 're far too busy here , and anyway , my father will be there , and I do n't really think she 's expecting me , so I 'll wait until tomorrow — ’ |
| 5 | Beyond that there is the sheer cost involved in visiting all of its customers and replacing the BT box on their wall with another , more expensive one and writing off the old analogue exchange line cards . |
| 6 | The team of non-professional drivers reached the high point of 109 mpg and a low of 94 mpg , merely by accelerating smoothly , braking gently , and switching off the engine in traffic jams . |
| 7 | Finally , if the model is low and slow and you think you have made a mess of things , remember that ‘ chickening out ’ and switching off the ‘ hold ’ will probably just produce a more expensive crash ! |
| 8 | Huckerby , a worried-looking , balding man , had a responsible position which basically involved overseeing editorial expenditure and running the paper day to day , but was best known for fussing round the office collecting old coffee cups and switching off the lights last thing at night . |
| 9 | Pages produced by a page printer are , therefore , relatively expensive and running off a thousand copies of a 10 page price list will put a severe dent in the machines life expectancy . |
| 10 | Typically for the Piaroa , the women are not warned against seeing the instruments with a threat of rape ; rather , it is said that if a woman should see the flutes , the entire village must commit mass suicide by joining hands and jumping off a cliff ( and I must admit that their reasoning on this is not clear to me ) . |
| 11 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 12 | On recovering her composure , and shaking off the shock effect of the terrible news , she paid a visit to the pawnbroker and pawned her wedding-ring . |
| 13 | There 's this youth , an actor would n't you know ? , marching about Chelsea with his soldiers and showing off no end . ’ |
| 14 | The ‘ merry Joyces ’ had been one of the fourteen Merchant Tribes of Galway , prominent families who had succeeded to the De Burgos in controlling the city and fighting off the ‘ wild Irish ’ . |
| 15 | A forced devaluation would clearly be potentially lethal for the EMS , breaking the key French franc-German mark link and sparking off a round of competitive devaluations in southern Europe involving the peseta , escudo and lira . |
| 16 | He says this because it seems pointless for the sun to have done all this work , and then let war spoil everything and killing off the sun 's children . |