Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] off a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it has been killed , the kitten may trigger off a new reaction . |
| 2 | A monarch 's speech at a state opening of parliament , though spoken , is far from the reciprocal end of the scale , but a scribbled memo from one teacher to another , though written , may trigger off a series of replies and counter replies , and is thus highly reciprocal . |
| 3 | For a long time this was a virtual no-go area for climbers , particularly scruffy ones , but this is now no longer the case , and a pint or two here ought to round off a Froggatt day rather nicely . |
| 4 | This year the winner should carry off a cheque for … £3000 . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe we should back off a little bit … ? ’ |
| 6 | This ‘ sausage ’ or ‘ carrot ’ ballooning can block the flow of emergency cooling water in the reactor , which should stave off a meltdown . |
| 7 | MORE than anything else , this week 's Labour Party conference should kill off a ritual that has been acted out over the years in a hundred radio and television studios . |
| 8 | For Geoffroy , a change in the environment might trigger off a new pattern of growth in the organism — but the result was determined more by the laws of growth than by the adaptive needs of the organism . |
| 9 | It 'll trigger off a signal which means you need assistance . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But I overhear people 's conversations , and sometimes I 'll get off a bus and follow them if I 'm interested ; or I 'll stand beside people pretending to be looking at something or reading , but actually listening to them . |
| 11 | For a while , after the polls closed , it looked as if Mr Reynolds might pull off a stunning upset . |
| 12 | The meeting , to be followed by talks between their heads of government tomorrow , could head off a Russian threat to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine unless it pays for the gas it received in January . |
| 13 | I remember that it could whack a fist-sized stone well over the creek and twenty metres or more into the undulating ground on the mainland , and once I got keyed into its natural rhythm I could send off a shot every two seconds . |
| 14 | If I speak out loud my breath hangs in the candle-light , just as though one could snap off a word in a mistily solidified lump as soon as it has been said . |
| 15 | We could see off a lot of those sides , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 16 | We could draw off a pint to fill a customer 's empty jam jar . |
| 17 | No individual could spark off a revival . |
| 18 | The minstrels and people of the town ran after the bull and the person who could cut off a piece of its skin before it crossed into Derbyshire was declared the owner and King of the Music 's Bull . |
| 19 | If I was in their shoes I 'd hold off a couple of days . |
| 20 | Square on his feet , Jos looked as though he could hold off a steamroller . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course not , your greymass could shrug off a concentrated squirt of pure smacksynth . ’ |
| 22 | He says that the police could back off a bit , then maybe it would n't end in death . |
| 23 | How ironic now to think that she 'd planned the event partly to prove she was capable of organising something major — to show Adam she could pull off a real coup . |
| 24 | A firm or college can change its culture quite markedly if the chief executive of either is replaced , and new priorities or new perspectives could kill off a partnership very rapidly . |
| 25 | Really , the Earth is flat because people would fall off a round Earth . |
| 26 | The government , claiming that granting the pilots ' wage demand would set off a wage explosion and damage the economy , expressed its support for the airlines and took unprecedented steps to break the strike . |
| 27 | A genuinely free air-travel market in America and Europe would spark off a wave of restructuring among European airlines . |
| 28 | How ironic that she felt so alive in Piers 's company , the one man who could shrug her off as carelessly as he would shrug off a few flecks of sand from his T-shirt . |
| 29 | The net effect of creating more available money could be to fire inflation , but the suggested increase in VAT would cream off a good deal of that extra money . |
| 30 | He felt that he knew the English character and , although he would n't hurt Ludovico by articulating it , he was sure that the sort of English girl who would get off a train and move in with a stranger would very soon be travelling on . |