Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | TOG O' WAR ace Steve Churchill has pulled off the greatest prize — a world championship . |
| 2 | Every effort is being made to obtain compensation , but in the meantime the directors have written off the cost of the property as an extraordinary charge against profits . |
| 3 | Because MPs enjoy such low status , because the work is so poorly paid , because the upper classes have largely abandoned ideas of ‘ service ’ , and because the selection process has killed off the old boy network , there is less and less interest in politics in the Conservatives ' traditional reservoir of support . |
| 4 | In answer to questions after the lecture Beamish said that the Russian Revolution had killed off the intelligentsia and that the country was now inhabited by ‘ animal life people ’ . |
| 5 | This squad also exploded a store of mines which the Germans had not laid behind the beach — an extraordinary piece of dilatoriness for them , although they were probably complacent , in part at least , because their propaganda had written off the British . |
| 6 | Drink and the devil had killed off the rest — |
| 7 | Half an hour later Seawitch was anchored , the engine was silent , and Nathan had switched off the bow , stern , and masthead lights . |
| 8 | Most of the food seemed already to have been disseminated , and a safety cut-out had switched off the stasis field when she opened the hatch . |
| 9 | Once the poachers have killed off the big male tuskers , they turn to the younger males for ivory . |
| 10 | A voder commentary accompanied the recording , but Rostov had switched off the auditory input to his chair so that he could converse with the Manchu technician who was running the session . |
| 11 | In Timisoara on Dec. 16 , the first anniversary of the uprising in the city which led to Ceausescu 's downfall [ see pp. 37104-05 ] , there was a demonstration by 5,000-8,000 people , including students and workers , at which Fr Laszlo Tokes , the ethnic Hungarian priest whose arrest had sparked off the events of 1989 , called for a " second revolution , not like last year but a peaceful , Christian one " . |