Example sentences of "[verb] off [art] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around .
2 At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’
3 The dog moved off a few paces and turned back , wagging his tail anxiously .
4 The leader let off a few rounds which went bellowing over our heads .
5 There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed .
6 Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’
7 Without consulting the master layout plan I have no idea which square yard H24/V72 occupies on the pitch , once the biggest in England until former manager Billy Bremner lopped off a few yards because he thought it put the team at a disadvantage when playing away ( they must now be regretting all those lost square yards they could be selling ) .
8 There 's a crush over by the door in one of the rooms , with flashbulbs going off every few seconds , but it 's impossible to get near enough to see .
9 Should he dash off a few writs ?
10 We spilt a few beans and touched the odd ( female ) nerve and laughed off a few fiascos .
11 How ironic that she felt so alive in Piers 's company , the one man who could shrug her off as carelessly as he would shrug off a few flecks of sand from his T-shirt .
12 His helmet slipped over his head three furlongs out and was dangling under his right armpit passing the post , falling off a few strides later .
13 Nick , the ever-ready surveyor , whipped out his loaded camera and reeled off a few shots of the thief .
14 It ca n't be used , for example , for casting off a few stitches at the armhole .
15 After ten minutes we were hot and had to take off a few layers .
16 The match , which kicked off a few minutes later than its scheduled 10.15 start time , ended on a bizarre note seven minutes into injury time at 12.15am .
17 There were checks to be done , now that Hess had replaced the mechanic , so Karlheinz backed off a few paces with the camera .
18 At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve .
19 AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace .
20 Moreover , between tending the wounded , the doctor managed to fend off a few shots at snipers .
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