Example sentences of "[vb pp] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I , as someone who has recently come off the dole , comment on Donald Gould 's article ( Forum , 20 January , p 180 ) . |
| 2 | Although Vinny Samways has now come off the transfer list , Spurs look light in the key area . |
| 3 | I 've now come off the pill without telling my boyfriend . |
| 4 | Unfortunately for our timing one of the hosts suddenly said , ‘ I 'm sure you do n't want any coffee , Prime Minister , you 've just come off the plane . |
| 5 | The tot , Britain 's most premature surviving child , had just come off the danger list after a three-month fight for life . |
| 6 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 7 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 8 | He has not yet come off the fence and told us whether he supports the barrage project . |
| 9 | I have written off the cost on a straight line basis in the accounts and the inspector has disallowed this for tax purposes . |
| 10 | Every effort is being made to obtain compensation , but in the meantime the directors have written off the cost of the property as an extraordinary charge against profits . |
| 11 | He has not yet written off the possibility of putting his ideas on a ‘ four-eyes basis ’ — a meeting of just two people — to Thatcher and Bush . |
| 12 | Next to a photograph of John were a few words of text which Chris had just written off the top of his head : |
| 13 | THE Government faxed a clear signal last week that it has written off the science vote . |
| 14 | In retrospect , the Americans had a good case for opposing the invasion of Egypt , even if it was difficult to defend the bungling over the Aswan Dam loan that had sparked off the crisis . |
| 15 | We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle . |
| 16 | But there is little civic pride in Maan that its actions should have set off the train of events . |
| 17 | Her exhaust also set off the colliery 's underground fire alarm after simmering near the down-shaft ventilation screens ! |
| 18 | In either case files can be pulled off the PC or Macintosh simply by selecting them from the user interface . |
| 19 | Super Channel wanted to run it but were told by the I.T.C. they 'd be pulled off the air if they did . |
| 20 | Morland bosses say they 've pulled off the escape of the decade |
| 21 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 22 | Then she felt the coverlet being pulled off the bed and João was on top of her and his sweet breath was in her face and his mouth over her mouth ; he was forcing her legs apart until she thought she would split ; he was trying to lift them right up over his shoulders , and at the same time trying to enter where she was impossibly small , cursing at his lack of success and finally grunting and gasping , until she felt a little damp fountain on her belly and he rolled off the bed and pattered quickly from the room . |
| 23 | Rainbow , who has pulled off the road for a closer look at her broken window , can almost smell the bloodlust underneath the righteous wrath . |
| 24 | By law she is not allowed to smack the children and I can not understand , sometimes how she manages to stop herself when brand new wallpaper has been pulled off the wall and a clean coat of paint has been drawn on . |
| 25 | The Enterprise , that shadowy sump of money , weapons and operatives that lay behind both policies , was intended to operate in other places too , in fact to be ‘ pulled off the shelf , as North said Casey said , any time it was needed , with Congress kept well in the dark . |
| 26 | No need for a hat , but the hair must be pulled off the face to minimise distraction and caught at the nape in a black band into which she would stick a single green feather . |
| 27 | ‘ Michael was on a dock , fully dressed in tweed jacket , tie , trousers and hush-puppies , and had to put on a pair of water skis , be pulled off the dock into the water , by a rope attached to a motorboat that roared past , and ski away . |
| 28 | I have some illustrative figures in front of me erm which I I thought a question of this nature might , might crop up , erm th the figures are n't absolutely accurate , they were pulled off the file very quickly and er they may be out by er er er er a small amount , but they , they certainly illustrate the point . |
| 29 | In ‘ Someone ringing off , leaving things vague , and you uncertain about what will happen next ’ , that 's where people have n't finished off the call , by summarizing what 's happened , and what you 've agreed to do as a result of receiving the call . |
| 30 | It was certainly better than the sandwich and a can of beer that she 'd expected ; if this had been the late and unlamented Eddie she 'd probably have been faced with a walk to the nearest carry-out to find that he 'd finished off the beer in her absence . |