Example sentences of "[v-ing] off a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a daunting sight : a seventeen-foot drop through a complex arrangement of boulders , holes , standing waves , scissor waves , and lateral waves rebounding off a sheer wall on the right . |
| 2 | Grant leapt back behind the cover of the metal sheathed door and as he did so , pulled the trigger of the shotgun , blasting off a wild shot up the length of the corridor . |
| 3 | The DI knocking off a local villain ! ’ |
| 4 | At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’ |
| 5 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 6 | DO YOU FANCY leaping off a high place attached to earth by only a large rubber band ? |
| 7 | The spiritual crisis in William 's life came to a head one Christmas when he was involved in an attempt to deceive his master by passing off a counterfeit shilling . |
| 8 | The average Jew was the average Englishman , living off a weekly pay packet of four pounds a week or less at a time when , in the worst-hit areas for unemployment , up to twenty per cent of the population was below the poverty line . |
| 9 | The back row of Webster , Lewis and debutant no.8 , Stuart Davies , was an impressive force throughout , the letter rounding off a good first match with a try . |
| 10 | ‘ Mm , he was quite a bit younger than she was , ’ Simon said thoughtfully , snapping off a dead geranium head in the tub that flowered by his door . |
| 11 | The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car . |
| 12 | He introduced a concept , pioneered in Sweden , under which instead of writing off a bad debt , the creditor would arrange to have the debtor 's situation monitored , and then , when time was ripe , would ask for payment again . |
| 13 | This seventeenth-century mosaic ( above , right ) illustrates the way in which different species of small birds may uniquely work together to deal with the shared problem of seeing off a feared predator . |
| 14 | Here , in the Kalahari , a group of meerkats is angrily seeing off a deadly yellow cobra . |
| 15 | The ‘ rescue ’ of Continental recalls a famous victory for Germany 's business elite in seeing off a foreign interloper in the 1970s . |
| 16 | She had to seduce Jim by whipping off a false beard disguise and transforming herself into an exotic belly-dancer . |
| 17 | MICHAEL ROBERTS was in form at Pontefract yesterday , rattling off a 959-1 treble to make 190 — a lead of 30 over Pat Eddery . |
| 18 | And let's not forget Western Samoa , Canada and Italy — with the last two really giving the All Blacks a fright — and Ireland , who were so near to bringing off a great quarter-final victory . |
| 19 | CORNARD United were desperately close to pulling off a famous victory , with cup holders Sudbury being saved by a late goal to force a replay , writes ALAN COCKSEDGE . |
| 20 | Fortunately , Alan Judge was in fine form , pulling off a great save to keep Hereford in the game . |
| 21 | Shearer demonstrating just why he is the most complete striker in the game today , was always at the heart of Blackburn 's best moves , and in the 55th minute he instigated an attack which culminated in Mike Hooper pulling off a desperate save to keep out a Gordon Cowans drive . |
| 22 | As soon as he sets foot on the elaborate stairway which rises three floors from the dark hall , itself leading off a gloomy cobbled courtyard , he has the feeling that he is leaving for a blessed hour or two his insubstantial world . |
| 23 | On the first floor , leading off a covered balcony , were the chambers of the fellows and scholars . |
| 24 | A policeman held out his arms as if heading off a loose horse . |
| 25 | but the breakage of isolated molars is divided between chipping , where single cusps or ends of salient angles of the tooth are broken , and splitting , where the break runs vertically through the crown , separating off a whole section of cusp and root or a whole lobe of a microtine tooth . |
| 26 | He was one of those lucky children whose economy of effort never showed up in examination results which were invariably straight ‘ A's , and he was particularly good at dashing off a 1000-word essay while others were still biting their pen-ends . |
| 27 | Despite heavy government intervention aimed at warding off a further crash in prices , trading continued to be nervous as a result of fears that Mehta would dump holdings to clear his bank debts , which included Rs6,200 million ( about US$214,000,000 ) to State Bank of India , the largest commercial bank . |
| 28 | As they hopped out of Armstrong , Fenella leaned in through the meter window as if paying off a real cab . |
| 29 | She has two children under five and has just £50 to spend as she is currently paying off a social fund loan . |
| 30 | Tico on the inside , hit Miss Woolco at the initial corner but came off best and shot clear , holding off a late challenge from Newry Blue by three quarters of a length in 31.03 seconds with third . |