Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | an electro cardiograph , it 's a tracing of the electrical il impulses from the heart given off by the heart and this chap came in he 'd never had one before and he was nervous anyway , so I 'm trying to put him at his ease and I , I put , you have to put like a rubber band round their arms and legs and attach erm electrodes to them , you do n't feel anything , you 're only measuring the electrical impulses given off by the heart |
| 2 | However I did get a bit cheesed off with the movie 's rather plodding pace . |
| 3 | So our hero stumped off down the yard and came across 4913 . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not right for politicians to offer a sanitised campaign cut off from the people they 're asking to elect them , ’ he said . |
| 5 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources . |
| 7 | The perfumes and aromas exuded by their leaves and flowers on a warm sunny day give any garden a fourth dimension , and one of the charms of the Greek and Italian hillsides is the pungently aromatic fragrance given off by the herbs and shrubs . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm surprised you have n't had the window-frame shipped off to the Black Museum . ’ |
| 9 | Anglian Water Authority claims that the water drawn off from the lake is still safe despite these problems because of the treatment it gives the water before it reaches people 's taps . |
| 10 | There were rumours that a pied-billed grebe had settled on ‘ Little Sea ’ , a freshwater lagoon cut off from the coast by the gradual build-up of sand dunes . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't care for the notion that Paul Gray had his head cut off in the Cathedral . |
| 12 | The spadefish swim faster in schools because of a slime given off by the swimming fish . |
| 13 | Information kept on a credit card would be wiped clean by the massive bursts of magnetism given off by the scanner . |
| 14 | A ‘ You could finish with a chain cast off on the front , instead of backstitching through the open stitches as usual . |
| 15 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 16 | She turned , arms flailing , head back , eyes open — but the gaping mouth would utter no more prophecies , her breath cut off by the red garrotte cord round her scrawny neck . |
| 17 | Beating off an ambush by ‘ eighty infidels on foot ’ , he and his train headed off on the last stage of his journey through the burning plains of the Punjab towards the mighty Indian capital and the palace of the Sultan . |
| 18 | In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world . |
| 19 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 20 | In the attempt to win society 's approval by a cultured ministry that had both sweetness and light , would Nonconformity produce a ministry cut off from the faithful ? |
| 21 | The Davidians split off from the Sabbath Day Adventist church in the nineteen thirties . |
| 22 | OMAGH TOWN had a man sent off for the third game in a row as they were outclassed at Shamrock Park . |
| 23 | She had been strangled and her long fair hair shorn off at the scalp . |
| 24 | I 'm just a bit pissed off with the way the wallpaper 's hanging ! |
| 25 | But later he stigmatised them as ‘ the social scum , the passively rotting mass thrown off by the lower layers of the old society . ’ |
| 26 | However , some radiation will still find its way around even these substantial barriers , increasing the exposure to the workforce above what they would expect from the ‘ natural ’ radiation given off by the sun or the earth . |
| 27 | Distillation is another , in which flowers are boiled in water , and the essential oil given off in the steam is collected and condensed by cooling . |
| 28 | With their bare hands , they fought to save the man who had an ear ripped off in the attack . |
| 29 | I keep coming across internal memoranda about which offices are to have their heating turned off during the morning and which during the afternoon . |
| 30 | One man had his ear sliced off in the fight and another was arrested , but later released . |