Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb base] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To re-seal a half-used cartridge , take the piece you cut off the end of the nozzle and push it into the nozzle the other way round |
| 2 | Whitefly also encourage aphids which feed off the sugary deposits . |
| 3 | Another surfaced in African Analaysis suggesting it was an Israeli atomic bomb test which set off the fatal discharge of poisonous gases and the monstrous tidal wave from the lake that swamped the surrounding countryside . |
| 4 | THE biggest sporting deal in history might be good news for the football clubs who kick off the new Premier League but will it be good for soccer and its followers ? |
| 5 | You bring lots of people in at junior management and through a series of apprenticeships you cream off the people who get to the top . |
| 6 | There is a sequence of hard-edge air-brush paintings which tick off the various stops on the way such as York and Newcastle . |
| 7 | Another vital component are macrophages , cells which attack bacteria , and other substances which fend off the bugs responsible for many stomach upsets , so babies have far greater protection against diarrhoea . |
| 8 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 9 | It was followed by the deprivations of greedy Swiss , repressive Austrians , revolutionary French , barbaric Germans and the huge , unpaid army of tourists and expatriates who live off the land and commit their own atrocities . |
| 10 | God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines . |
| 11 | The scores of islands which lie off the Adriatic coast are the crests of mountain ranges which foundered during periods of tectonic disturbances . |
| 12 | One theory of the origin of ice ages is that they occur when large masses ( for example , comets ) crash down onto the Earth , throwing up vast amounts of detritus into the stratosphere which block off the heat from the Sun . |
| 13 | Much of his conversation , uttered in the flat voice which set off the originality of the content , conveyed in this way infinite nuances of banter and irony . |
| 14 | Firstly , he points to the recommendations contained in the Wolfenden Report and argues that if society were not able to pronounce homosexuality morally wrong , then there would be no basis for a law which aims to protect youth from ‘ corruption ’ , or for punishing men who live off the earnings of a homosexual prostitute . |
| 15 | That way we kill off the competition while we scoop the pool ourselves . |
| 16 | My missus has to buy the kids ' clothes down the jumble sale and if she wants a pair of nylons they come off the Green Shield stamps . |
| 17 | He found that from the intersection of Fleming 's Cross-cut with the vein , the level had been taken S.E. along it for 40 fathoms , at the forehead of which was a cross-course which cut off the lode . |
| 18 | When you , when you sell a house you pay off the mortgage |