Example sentences of "[verb] off [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is bactericidal and will kill off all the beneficial bacteria in your filter and on the surface of your gravel , probably causing a sudden rise in nitrates which will finish off even the hardiest fry . |
| 2 | Pick off just the first flush of flowers from the ever-bearing kinds . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , as the tranquillizer wears off so the plunger gradually slides back up and the former level of stress returns . |
| 4 | At the same time , cars were numbered in accordance with the time they set off so the thousands of spectators that lined the route could get some indication who was leading . |
| 5 | Leopold and Wolfgang went to masked balls and Wolfgang gave several concerts and took part in a contest of keyboard skills with another ex-child prodigy , Ignaz von Beecke , coming off somewhat the worse . |
| 6 | To his horror , Legia — obviously inspired by American television — decided to make him the $6m man , a fee which inevitably frightened off even the wealthy Italians . |
| 7 | After breaking ahead of his experienced Brazilian rival , Jose-Luis Barbosa , he simply stretched out the five-man field , only stepping on the accelerator off the last bend to hold off comfortably the late surge of runner-up , Belgian Luc Bernaert . |