Example sentences of "[verb] off [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When the fainter member passes in front of the brighter , it naturally cuts off some of the light , and Algol ‘ winks ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The £25 million cost will be met by raising prices and selling off some of the little-used hostels . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | From 1986 onwards , the Thatcher government raised 4–6 billion a year by selling off some of the major public corporations — British Gas , British |
| 13 | My guess is he 's been selling off some of the better vintages over the past few years . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This will go towards paying off most of the senior debt , said Tinley , which currently stands at $67m . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 , . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Philip took the vase and put it on the table where it had been before , wiping off some of the dust with his elbow . |
| 21 | Then came elm disease , followed by smartly by the drought of 1976 , which killed off many of the beeches . |
| 22 | However , the model is consistent with experiments in which we blocked proliferation in the progress zone or killed off some of the cells . |
| 23 | He worked off some of the anger by berating Tom Hanks for not having Vulcan ready more quickly when he ordered that the horse be prepared for a ride . |
| 24 | When the going gets tougher the management can simply sell off some of the property of its partly-owned Oldham Estate subsidiary . |
| 25 | Thus the existence of coalition served to divide the collective leadership by separating those who had power and influence from those who did not , by separating the senior men from their junior colleagues and by cutting off those under the Prime Minister 's influence from the rest . |
| 26 | Frequent Bolovian references ( drawings , some rhymes , and much Bolovian dogma ) show that in the period 1927–30 Eliot found this a valuable way of letting off some of the emotional steam generated by his conversion ; serious discussions of theology are juxtaposed in this correspondence with ridiculous accounts of Bolovian religious practice , one letter dated according to the day of St Cecilia , another according to that of St Gumbolumbo . |
| 27 | Instead he took a curtain call , and at the last minute before he was to slide behind the curtains behind the bar , he reached for the flowers thrown to him earlier and broke off some of the roses , swaggering round the circle of admirers handing out the roses to the women . |
| 28 | A secret report into the laboratory 's future concluded that the cheapest option was to close the laboratory , lay off half of the 200 scientists and move the rest to the government laboratories run by AEA Technology at Harwell in Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | It might be better to seal off some of the most polluted land — like America 's vast military estates — from the public and leave it as new wildernesses . |
| 30 | The virtuous and those plagued by dogs ( not mutually exclusive groups ) can always walk off some of the effects of a pudding afterwards . |