Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [to-vb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is simply an agreement by each creditor to hold off and not to press his claim for settlement for an agreed period as long as the other creditors do likewise . |
| 2 | We also felt that Zephyr had been under pressure due to her immense popularity and had been given little opportunity to show off the gentle side of her nature — in the same way the more extrovert patients had dominated the evening while those of shy and retiring nature had slightly missed out . |
| 3 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 4 | The hit man has been called in a few times to finish off Jeffrey Probyn yet never once has he managed to carry out his murderous brief . |
| 5 | The lad should have been put in the cells for a few hours to cool off . |
| 6 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 7 | His defection means a 10lb rise in the weights , enabling last year 's winner and ante-post favourite Another Coral to race off his correct mark . |
| 8 | He looked as if he was reciting some charm to ward off evil spirits . |
| 9 | CONSULTANT surgeons at St Bartholomew 's Hospital in London have warned managers that the hospital has ‘ no alternative ’ but to shut its accident and emergency department after the closure of 75 beds this week to head off a £2m overspend . |
| 10 | Sunscreem , those top raving pop stars , return with another scorcher to piss off those Top Of The Pops people in the form of ‘ Perfect Motion ’ . |
| 11 | " But you said you wanted this letter to go off this morning , so I 've brought it for you to sign . " |
| 12 | This is another reason to start off any flying training by emphasising visual references instead of the instruments . |
| 13 | This ability to live off poor vegetation is likely to have been crucial in the evolution of the mountain goat . |
| 14 | I had some woodwork to finish off indoors and after I 'd glued up I had some light sanding to do . |
| 15 | She used this power to pay off some political debts and to make a political statement by appointing Alison Walton Leland , a Houston stockbroker who is widow of a much-liked congressman , Mickey Leland , to the Texas A&M University board . |
| 16 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you always have to use this much persuasion to show off the courtyard ? ’ |
| 18 | Working just from engineering drawings , the skilled machinist will decide the sequence of cuts to be made , how fast he will run the machine , and how much material to take off on each cut ( the ‘ speed and feed ’ ) , and will control manually each of the levers and screws on the machine which control each aspect of its operation . |
| 19 | Coincidentally , or maybe not , the storm chose that moment to let off a sheet of dazzling green lightning and an earsplitting crack of thunder . |
| 20 | The propensity of these birds to fly off with any attractive object , is so well known to the natives , that they always search the runs for any small missing article that may have been accidentally dropped in the bush . |
| 21 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 22 | On the odd occasions I met him , I felt that he 'd adopted all these trappings to keep off a world with which he could not cope . |
| 23 | Yeah and , and if you could , I mean the thing is , if you 're , if er , if we did n't have each other to go off with erm it would have made everything for us a lot different , I mean okay we 're lucky we 're in a situation where we do know a lot of people who are , who are like- minded |
| 24 | It is much easier to create this design with contrasting colours overlapping each other to show off the shapes of the flowers . |
| 25 | Drunken Squig Hunters often compete with each other to show off their most horrific injuries and tell ( grossly exaggerated ) tales of how they were earned . |
| 26 | In our depth interviews , for example ( Appendix II , section 5 ) , there was the man in trouble with the court already who could therefore not get HP — and who bought the settee he wanted with a trading check instead ( even costlier to repay ) , though he doubted his ability to pay it off and was still making payments through the court ; and the woman with so many debts to pay off , afraid of the ‘ loan man 's ’ visit because she finds it so hard to say no to his offers . |
| 27 | Okay okay just so I ca n't I need a couple more calls to finish off the programme and take a couple more records er O nine O four six four one six four one would you ring me . |
| 28 | That on Personal Budgeting advised , ‘ Never borrow more money to pay off existing debts ; there is always a better solution . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Besides , I 've got two more sons to marry off yet ! ’ |
| 30 | two more winners to finish off with … longjumper Carl Howard from Oxford took the national under 20 title again … his winning leap 7 point five two metres and … weightlifter Andrew Saxton who was sent home from the Olympics last year after a mix up over drugs was a winner again in the British Senior Championships at Crystal Palace … |