Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] off [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others merely shrug off questions with ‘ your guess is as good as mine ’ . |
| 2 | Most just let off steam by shouting and screaming , but one in five admitted to lashing out . |
| 3 | He also beat off attacks from Turkish forces who moved in from Bosnia in the west and Rumelia in the south-east . |
| 4 | Fletcher resolves this by saying that ‘ [ It ] all depends on what doctors customarily do , ’ so that if doctors customarily switch off ventilators in the circumstances under discussion , then this of itself makes it lawful to do so . |
| 5 | Such accommodation is likely to be withdrawn as councils Increasingly sell off property to private developers . |