Example sentences of "[verb] off [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introduction of competition and credit control triggered off a considerable amount of comment and criticism from the City as well as from within academic circles . |
| 2 | The visit to South Africa of several eminent Irish Rugby Football Union officers and their wives — among them the president , Ronnie Dawson — triggered off an acrimonious debate which looks likely to run on in spite of an IRFU statement regretting the safari . |
| 3 | In returning to the old imagery of the prince as the bearer of the sword , the reformers had in fact triggered off an important set of associations . |
| 4 | Shetland sheep are an example of a breed which has recently come off the Rare Breed Survival Trusts ' books , largely due to its popularity with small flock owners . |
| 5 | TWO YOUTHS miraculously escaped injury last night when the car they were travelling in crashed off a busy road and into a subway . |
| 6 | We are inundated with rabbits , so we fenced off a rabbit-proof area for vegetables and netted the top — the pigeons , caterpillars and slugs ate the lot . |
| 7 | It is a daunting sight : a seventeen-foot drop through a complex arrangement of boulders , holes , standing waves , scissor waves , and lateral waves rebounding off a sheer wall on the right . |
| 8 | The big Southampton striker does n't score enough for his country ; this was only his second for Northern Ireland — but it was Hughes tried a shot off the edge of the box , the ball cannoned off a Lithuanian defender and into the path of Dowie who rifled an unstoppable drive past Martin Kenas from 14 yards . |
| 9 | Next it was Nixon 's turn in the Tranmere goal to pull off a spectacular save from Mitchell . |
| 10 | The two counties met in last year 's Ulster final at Armagh and in one of the best games seen in the province all year Tyrone came from behind in the second half to pull off a memorable victory after having been reduced to fourteen players . |
| 11 | And , the court was told , the caper was just like the film Best of Friends in which Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster play two old lags who decide to pull off a final robbery . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Francois Boutin 's bid to pull off a clean sweep of the French Classics rests with Accommodating in the French Oaks at Chantilly on Sunday . |
| 13 | TURKEY will be on an incredible £12,000-a-man bonus to pull off the greatest result in their football history at Wembley tomorrow . |
| 14 | Ironically , that made England more determined than ever to pull off the stirring victory at Headingley which levelled the series . |
| 15 | In France , meeting with the head of Ariola Records , the company responsible for distributing Virgin in that country , Branson listened with interest as the managing director told him excitedly that Ariola were about to pull off an enormous coup by signing Julien Clerc , France 's Frank Sinatra . |
| 16 | Had they then found the resources to pull off an improbable win against Hong Kong it would have drastically altered the fairness of the tournament . |
| 17 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 18 | Grant leapt back behind the cover of the metal sheathed door and as he did so , pulled the trigger of the shotgun , blasting off a wild shot up the length of the corridor . |
| 19 | Robert Meister in his book Hypochondria writes : ‘ Those physicians who shrug off a suffering patient because they regard his condition as psychosomatic or hypochondriacal are not acting as professional healers … |
| 20 | All she wanted was to turn the clock back and shrug off the ghastly realisation that her marriage was not what she 'd thought it was . |
| 21 | Peel off a thick layer as the flesh immediately under the skin is hard and bitter . |
| 22 | Or , in Sainsbury-ad speak : Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers . |
| 23 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |
| 24 | However , Baker had to call on his years of experience to shake off the gritty Ballymena man , who made all the running , but faltered over the final ends . |
| 25 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
| 26 | He still finds it difficult to shake off the smock-and-straw image of the unintelligent country yokel and to convince those outside the industry of his skill and versatility . |
| 27 | He walked away quickly , trying to shake off the unnerving effect of the encounter . |
| 28 | It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction . |
| 29 | Barker grew very quickly , and had to work off a tremendous amount of energy every day , and since Danny was much too young to take him out for walks , this duty fell upon Connor . |
| 30 | A FORMER Marine commando of 73 beat off a masked raider armed , masked raider who burst into an elderly woman 's home . |