Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees , and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Sometimes , some of them would try and be clever and just step off the pavement . |
7 | Always turn off the water at the mains stopcock first ( or tie up the ballvalve ) and turn on all taps ( provided the sink and basin wastes are n't frozen up ! ) and then attempt to trace the position of the burst . |
8 | Electrics Always turn off the television , video and stereo when they are not in use . |
9 | Perhaps the easiest way around this is to make a note of which side you started and only ever turn off the machine when the carriage is on that side . |
10 | Carefully prise off the end battens . |
11 | With the blackest hair she had ever seen , swept straight back off the forehead . |
12 | Turn the cooked sponge on to this and carefully peel off the paper . |
13 | Ease the cheesecake out of the tin and carefully peel off the foil to serve it . |
14 | I jump so hard I nearly fall off the board . |
15 | I could tell she was angry and I was ready to cry , but Frankie pulled me roughly back off the step and we turned to leave . |
16 | While carrying out research for my book , Our Treacherous Hearts : Why Women Let Men Get Their Way ( Faber & Faber , £14.99 ) , I found that men are not only often let off the hook by women , but are actively ‘ idealised ’ by them . |
17 | Now get off the phone , Robert , for Christ 's sake . ’ |
18 | Following Botham Wanderers ' defeat , we now move off the bottom for the first time in four months . |
19 | Will the right hon. Gentleman now throw off the veto of his Minister of State and have the courage to meet us to argue and discuss the case ? |
20 | In the distance was a large L-shaped residence , also well back off the road . |
21 | Simply peel off the cover , pop the plastic pack in the microwave and in no time at all you have a tasty meal for one . |
22 | He was n't even let off the hook when it was all over . |
23 | Whatever it is , it 's not my property any more and I ca n't put a ‘ Kindly Keep Off The Grass ’ notice on it . |
24 | A chef would never leave a kitchen with food out on the worktops at the end of the day , and front desk is always tidied at the end of a shift , but how many managers do more than simply turn off the computer and go home at the end of a session with their spreadsheet or word processor ? |
25 | Someone please turn off the tap |
26 | As this happens , muscles at the back of the nasal passages partially close off the throat so that the air mainly shoots out through the nose , although some escapes from the mouth . |
27 | ‘ Please take off the swastika . |
28 | Then skim off the fat , pour the juices back into the roasting tin and bubble them up . |
29 | That was his Sunday ritual : over to Harry 's for cards as soon as lunch was eaten , and back at exactly a quarter after six , to read the Sunday papers and then sleep off the drink . |
30 | So I figured I 'd put up the five g's , get my name in the papers , maybe ease off the pressure a little . |