Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
| 2 | I incurred a second funeral director 's bill the same week as I paid off the first . |
| 3 | A different approach is to inhibit the hormone which starts off the female sexual cycle . |
| 4 | Another surfaced in African Analaysis suggesting it was an Israeli atomic bomb test which set off the fatal discharge of poisonous gases and the monstrous tidal wave from the lake that swamped the surrounding countryside . |
| 5 | Harry thinks that this fruit house is almost unique ; that is , he knows of one other which started off the same but has since been altered . |
| 6 | Whitefly also encourage aphids which feed off the sugary deposits . |
| 7 | The Iraqis , once they had withdrawn from the territory occupied in the early months , and to some extent even before this took place , constructed solid defensive positions , notably in the centre near Mandali and Khanaqin , and in the south close to Basrah , from which to fight off the anticipated Iranian offensives . |
| 8 | And that despite an interest-rate ceiling of 4.25% imposed by Congress until the mid-1970s , which shut off the long-bond market to government borrowing . |
| 9 | There is a sequence of hard-edge air-brush paintings which tick off the various stops on the way such as York and Newcastle . |
| 10 | Gregory 's programme of radical reform depended upon the law and a renewed interest in legal study and declaration provided the impetus which sparked off the legal renaissance of the twelfth century . |
| 11 | Police alerted electricity staff , who cut off the deadly high-voltage supply following the accident at the Lancaster Canal , five miles north of Preston , Lancs . |
| 12 | She shook off the treacherous thought ; Dana was her twin and she loved her with all her faults — goodness knew , she had enough of her own . |
| 13 | THE biggest sporting deal in history might be good news for the football clubs who kick off the new Premier League but will it be good for soccer and its followers ? |
| 14 | When you get off the beaten track and talk to people , you find out what 's really going on beneath the surface that the visitors see , the intimate details ’ . |
| 15 | Such books are ideal for planning a day 's walking but if you stray off the designated route it 's almost impossible to find your way back . |
| 16 | She switched off the data-analysis and scratched her snub nose . |
| 17 | She went back to her room and , leaving a small bedside lamp on , she switched off the main light and got into bed . |
| 18 | Before she set off the following morning , she 'd visited the Maison du Vin , which was housed in a former medieval monastery . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ If we cut off the right hands of thieves in this country , we would be well off — because then there would be no burglaries . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ If we take off the reedbed 's top 30cm of vegetation — just enough so that we do not kill off the reeds — and put in some new dykes to give a good water flow we will restore the reedbed to its former glory . ’ |
| 21 | We step off the main road , down two steps and into one of two rooms which constitute home . |
| 22 | My detector helped me to cream off the best of the finds , but I hope that fact will not deter you from carrying out your own investigations along the 499 remaining routes , if you can obtain a copy of the book . |
| 23 | When they set off the following year on a tour of Australia and New Zealand , William , as well as two nannies and acres of baggage , went too . |
| 24 | Holidaymakers contemplating taking their diesel estate cars to the Dordogne or Brittany this summer would do well to wait until they drive off the cross-Channel ferry before topping up the tank . |
| 25 | So they fan off the loose and close down the spaces for the fly-half or blind-side winger . |
| 26 | Ill health and bereavement are the most common needs for which the charity gives assistance — for example , it has recently helped a member whose career was terminated by multiple sclerosis to buy an electric wheelchair , and given a loan to a member 's widow reliant on state benefits to enable her to pay off the disputed partnership settlement debts accrued when her husband died . |
| 27 | We might ask desk officers to make an initial selection of important records as they come off the live system . |
| 28 | My missus has to buy the kids ' clothes down the jumble sale and if she wants a pair of nylons they come off the Green Shield stamps . |
| 29 | He fended off the awkward questions diplomatically . |
| 30 | He switched off the mauve light . |