Example sentences of "[verb] off [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the simplest things to do is to work off some of the tension by walking to the interview if at all possible . |
| 2 | Not so , the managing director knew that Jefferson was knocking off one of the other director 's wives , but much worse than that there had been some really dirty work going on with Martinez . |
| 3 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 4 | The second thing we did was to sell off some of the rare books in order to provide capital which we could apply to the capital cost of the computer system . |
| 5 | After the usual cost-trimming exercises have been accomplished the only thing left to do is to sell off some of the most profitable parts to raise cash . |
| 6 | ( Major had told the Commonwealth heads of government conference in Harare in October 1991 that the UK was prepared unilaterally to implement these terms , which envisaged writing off two-thirds of the export credits owed by the world 's poorest countries — see p. 38552 . ) |
| 7 | To pick off some of the wandering DEC herd , Hewlett-Packard has signed a joint marketing pact that will put Raxco Inc 's VAX/VMS data centre management products on HP 9000 Series 800 and Series 700 machines : the Rockville , Maryland company has its Security Assessment software immediately available for HP 's 9000s . |
| 8 | One governor commented that he was trying to pick off some of the weaker governors who had no sense of what their role was meant to be . |
| 9 | The taxi dropped off one of the passengers , and the offenders instructed the driver to take them to a farm club , and then asked him to turn down a farm track . |
| 10 | The City Technology Colleges divert valuable resources of staff and equipment away from other schools where the need for them is great and they also cream off some of the more able pupils . |
| 11 | The number of dead and injured was expected to rise as rescue teams reached more outlying regions cut off due to the widespread destruction of roads and bridges . |
| 12 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 13 | Thus Falkenhayn through his pusillanimity , his passion for half-measures and his obsession with the ‘ bleeding white ’ experiment , on February 25th-26th lost the opportunity of bringing off one of the greatest triumphs of the war . |
| 14 | When the fainter member passes in front of the brighter , it naturally cuts off some of the light , and Algol ‘ winks ’ . |
| 15 | The officers made much of us children : the Marine band played on deck and the captain fired off one of the guns , after we had been given cotton wool to stuff in our ears . |
| 16 | They are being sold off due to the end of the Cold War and will supply remote country areas where the food supply is particularly dire . |
| 17 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 18 | The £25 million cost will be met by raising prices and selling off some of the little-used hostels . |
| 19 | These include moving all the pictures to the National Gallery ; storing the pictures in situ in a permanently closed Gallery ; selling off some of the pictures ( one such sale in 1971 caused public outcry ) ; and launching another major public appeal as in 1984–85 and 1988 ( unlikely to succeed again ) . |
| 20 | From 1986 onwards , the Thatcher government raised 4–6 billion a year by selling off some of the major public corporations — British Gas , British |
| 21 | My guess is he 's been selling off some of the better vintages over the past few years . ’ |
| 22 | Just as I was put through to you I had the idea of reaching out to take one of these pencils and to tear off one of the canvass-returns as a notepad . |
| 23 | It is becoming a tradition in our family ( extended by friends ) to do a fairly long walk between Christmas and the New Year , to walk off some of the effects of the turkey and tone up the system for the usual see-the-New- Year-in celebrations . |
| 24 | Governments begin to slough off some of the wealth in taxes to ameliorate the conditions of the poor and provide public amenities for their citizens . |
| 25 | This will go towards paying off most of the senior debt , said Tinley , which currently stands at $67m . |
| 26 | But for those with loans over £30,000 where there is no tax relief , it is certainly worth considering paying off some of the mortgage - particularly since there is no clear indication of when rates might come down . |
| 27 | Besides those I have mentioned others present included Mr and Mrs Panagiotis Lemos , she was one of the hardworking joint Chairmen of the evening with Baronne Jacques de Mandat-Grancey ; Lady Russell , who was the honorary Present ; her daughter Lady Boothby , who showed off some of the lovely jewellery that was auctioned ; Mrs Anastasios Nomikos , who was Vice President , the Countess of Lichfield , . |
| 28 | They then draw off some of the horse 's blood , remove the serum containing the antibodies , return the blood to the horse , and these horses are used for producing the tetanus erm antibodies . |
| 29 | Philip took the vase and put it on the table where it had been before , wiping off some of the dust with his elbow . |
| 30 | Then came elm disease , followed by smartly by the drought of 1976 , which killed off many of the beeches . |