Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early 1970s , industry observers thought that IBM was strong enough to shake off the challenge from Japan . |
| 2 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 3 | ‘ If students are going to be landed with a debt at the end of three years , they are going to choose vocational courses so that they can be certain of getting a job when they graduate and so pay off the loan . ’ |
| 4 | To finish in style , we spent a luxurious four days in Palm Springs — lying by the pool — in temperatures of 120C , just enough to finish off the tan . |
| 5 | In the final sad years of the S&D , it vividly shows how the Western Region inexorably killed off the line and how Norman and his station staff were at the forefront of the fight to save the route . |
| 6 | ‘ Even if I just get one of my feet in the wrong position it really messes me about and it 's easy for that foot to just flick off the peg . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The tot , Britain 's most premature surviving child , had just come off the danger list after a three-month fight for life . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 11 | Can I just finish off the front I can do that tonight , tonight please ? |
| 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 | A thin , plain , uncoloured glass best shows off the colour and richness of the wine . |
| 14 | My wife finished off with a creme caramel dessert while I just finished off the litre bottle of house white , which was well worth its £8.95 price tag . |
| 15 | There 's something about that flight … every time you do it , you just get off the plane shaking your head and thinking how incredibly tolerant the staff are . |
| 16 | Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees , and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue . |
| 17 | Do I just switch off the tape recorder and go back and say , ‘ Here 's a two and a half minute speech ’ ? |
| 18 | She did n't just switch off the television during love scenes in a film , for instance , but even if a scantily clad woman was shown on a beach or something . |
| 19 | The user must not switch off the computer before this option is chosen as this could affect further use of the files on disk . |
| 20 | As I said earlier , one can not switch off the tap and ban tobacco . |
| 21 | His pit was earmarked for closure , his redundancy money would not pay off the mortgage and other work was scarce . |
| 22 | Yes Chair , I think Mr was quoting Michael Portillo was n't he in about the er , when you sell a house you do n't not pay off the mortgage , and of course what most people do is buy another house , sorry who was it ? |
| 23 | Some parents just switch off the alarm after the initial wetting , fail to change the bed , and leave the child so that there is no real opportunity for the child to learn . |
| 24 | Death and financial difficulties finally finished off the business around 1809 . |
| 25 | THE BRITISH government 's decision to pour taxpayers ' money into a new factory to make video tape for the Japanese firm , Hitachi , has finally killed off the idea of putting a tax on the tape . |
| 26 | Oh no I hate it when than ha when that happens , you fucking pull off the corner and the top do n't come off . |
| 27 | Sometimes , some of them would try and be clever and just step off the pavement . |
| 28 | She could not shake off the effect of the dream despite Comfort 's kindness , and her muscles still trembled . |
| 29 | He contemplated becoming a teacher and giving up acting , except he could not shake off the desire . |
| 30 | The England manager , upset by the way his comments were interpreted after the European championship , has gone on record as saying that he is mis-understood , that he can not shake off the association with the long ball game from his formative years at Watford . |