Example sentences of "[verb] off [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We find similar striking juxtapositions in the finale of the ‘ Jupiter Symphony , where the contrast between the signs helps set off two of the five main motives of the movement : the angular four-note motive with its downward leaps of a 5th and a 7th is marked throughout the movement by strokes , and the linear , stepwise ascending six-note motive is marked throughout by dots . |
| 9 | He sacrifices four lambs at the base of the li ga , then takes two inside and kills them by slitting open the throat and the chest and cutting off one of the forelegs at the shoulder , so the heart can be taken out , still pumping , and offered to the god on a plate on the dhāmi 's raised seat . |
| 10 | Four birds died in the knowledge that they had pulled off one of the best saves ever seen at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 11 | He switched off two of the lights to indicate the wind speed . |
| 12 | When the aircraft reached its required altitude , somewhere over France , a rear crew member was asked by the Captain to switch off one of the pressurisation systems . |
| 13 | The Comer had not managed to loosen the knot of the tie , though its ends floated wide , or to hoist off one of the regulation black shoes . |
| 14 | In France , the one country that had developed a strong tradition of vernacular opera with its own different aesthetic , it needed only a visit of an Italian company playing a repertoire of opere buffe to spark off one of the most celebrated of musical civil wars , the querelle des bouffons , a war which was renewed a quarter of a century later when the pro-Italian faction set up Piccinni in rivalry with the now gallicized Gluck . |
| 15 | The very specimens to which Gould refers so casually in his letter , particularly those which came to be known as ‘ Darwin 's finches ’ , were to spark off one of the most controversial theories of all time . |
| 16 | A branch whipped across the screen and tore off one of the wipers . |
| 17 | He waited while I tore off one of the orange-coloured tickets , then another one . |
| 18 | Despite being filled with an overwhelming love and compassion for her husband , who was single-handedly fighting off one of the world 's largest corporations , she 'd also been swept by a strong desire to bash him over the head with his own fax machine ! |
| 19 | We only caught her because she 'd forgotten to take off one of the tags . ’ |
| 20 | Kharin , unable to speak a word of English , saw Hitchcock pull off one of the saves of the season as he watched his first match following a £400,000 transfer from CSKA Moscow . |
| 21 | But why someone like that would want to endanger his own property by killing off one of the boys is beyond me . ’ |
| 22 | The arrival of Christianity in Birka sparked off one of the sternest tussles between Christianity and paganism anywhere in this period . |
| 23 | The conference sparked off one of the liveliest debates ever witnessed at a conference on architectural history , and highlighted the need to reassess this period as it slips into history and , therefore , our heritage . |