Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] off the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GRAHAM NEARN , MANAGING DIRECTOR , CATERHAM CARS LTD Life in the Lotus position General Motors ' decision to kill off the Lotus Elan shocked many British car enthusiasts . |
| 2 | Main picture : In the kitchen/dining room a magnificent arrangement of satin ribbons finishes off the table setting |
| 3 | Roger starts off the celebrations with spaghetti Bolognaise on Christmas Eve . |
| 4 | He made an irritable gesture of flapping his cloak to shake off the water . |
| 5 | The administrative receiver appointed , Touche Ross , was instrumental in persuading the Revenue to allow shareholders to write off the value of the shares against capital gains tax . |
| 6 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 7 | His mind fought off the idea furiously , and yet it came back to fret his certainty again . |
| 8 | After he had eaten he lit a small oil lamp to dispel the gathering gloom , and by its light fought off the silence by indulging in some desultory tidying , which consisted of gathering together assorted scrolls of papyrus and articles of clothing scattered about , and dumping them into two chests — one for each . |
| 9 | It was part of the failure of the comprehensive schools to shake off the image of ‘ grammar schools for all ’ . |
| 10 | But Beaumont is already confident that the eight-year-old will make a bold bid to pull off the feat in 12 months ' time . |
| 11 | He and wife Sally Ann show off the card ( above ) . |
| 12 | Other reports in March stressed the need for a crash immunization programme to ward off the threat of epidemics . |
| 13 | In New York , the visitor is drawn time and time again to the Frick Collection , where the opulent yet relaxed setting shows off the objects so much more sympathetically than the Disneyland-style ‘ period rooms ’ across the other side of Fifth Avenue . |
| 14 | He could n't hear anything , but he could see his father covered in pollen and then he had watched the actress get off the train and a lot of kissing and hugging , and everyone behaving the way theatre people always did behave . |
| 15 | Rex switched off the suction pump , hung up the miner 's helmet , divested himself of the fisherman 's waders and laid his snorkel aside . |
| 16 | Sound waves bounce off the sides of the channel as though they had hit solid walls , focusing the sound along the channel . |
| 17 | I was on the grass below the paddock when Ronnie 's car pulled off the road with a completely inexplicable failure : inexplicable in that Ronnie could find no reason why his car , which had been going so well , should suddenly come to a halt . |
| 18 | Some schools auction off the gifts at the end of the service but if the bid for the produce does n't equal the cost price parents can become upset when other , possibly more prosperous , families are buying their gifts at a discount ! |
| 19 | Will that bonus pay off the house ? |
| 20 | In its efforts to raise revenue to pay off the debt , Maxxam has been logging at twice the usual rate . |
| 21 | Here in the front cloth she is seen at her embroidery , sadly waiting and earning her living to pay off the Rake 's debts . |
| 22 | Soon the words come off the subjects , the cone becomes a ‘ Kone ’ with its mass sliced through with layers of transparent plastic to make a more categorisable kinetic work . |
| 23 | Gardeners have been inviting the public to look round their allotments to show off the advantages of organic methods of growing vegetables . |
| 24 | 16 year old Mark Cross and 17 year old Paul Eversham are being brought into the side to show off the talent Hereford has to offer for the future . |
| 25 | In one place a television ‘ red head ’ ( 800 watt ) light set off the sprinkler system with hysterical results . |
| 26 | When one reads a Paracelsian recipe for an amulet to ward off the plague , when one learns that the prime ingredient is a paste requiring eighteen dried toads , one could be forgiven for rejecting continuity between magic and science . |
| 27 | The ordeal is over : the Namibians show off the Sicily Trophy after beating Hong Kong 26–12 in the catania final . |
| 28 | And , though the story kills off the painter , the big draw himself is sure to return larger than life . |
| 29 | I could smell the citronella that I put on my skin to ward off the mosquitoes and feel the breeze beginning to rise from the river . |
| 30 | In consequence there are no autumn colours to be viewed in surroundings that look as though there should be — no golds and flaming reds to set off the whites , blues and blacks of snow , water and rock . |