Example sentences of "[verb] off [pron] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The smoke , full of PCBs and cyanide , drifted through his office and triggered off his chest condition , ’ she said . |
| 2 | But the father-of-five fought back to come off his life support machine and improve enough to be moved into a general ward . |
| 3 | When you peel off your fleecy top from your fuchsia thermal underwear , the static electricity is sufficient to heat and light Linlithgow for a week . |
| 4 | THE Prince of Wales was expected to shake off his back injury to take part in the annual Garter ceremony at Windsor this afternoon . |
| 5 | Dress your hair in the way I intended , put on my pearl necklace and — ’ Anne drew off her gold ring and carelessly dropped it on to the coverlet ‘ — my wedding-ring . |
| 6 | Simply send off your entry form and you could soon be celebrating your success with , naturally , a glass of Champagne ! |
| 7 | The best way to grow these is to cut back hard each spring , to ensure a mass of young wands that will show off their winter bark . |
| 8 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG will show off its Unix SVR4-based DCE reference port this week at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge ‘ 93 meet in Boston . |
| 9 | Finally , you can show off your prefect physique playing beach volleyball . |
| 10 | EVEREX LOOKS TO SELL OFF ITS ESIX UNIX |
| 11 | Personal computer wars victim Everex Systems Inc , which hoisted the white flag and filed for Chapter 11 protection on January 4th , is planning to sell off its Unix operating systems arm , Esix Systems , to an unidentified application software publisher . |
| 12 | Cheshire County Council is planning to sell off its fire station on Tarporley High Street after a new station replacing it was completed . |
| 13 | You also know that on page nine of our interest statement we have created a non-distributable special reserve against which we are writing off our good-will reserve . |
| 14 | While this is going on ( and it can last several days ) the pair occasionally break off their courtship ritual and return to their chosen spawning site . |
| 15 | The King placed before him not only works of Wagenseil , but those of [ Johann Christian ] Bach , Abel and Handel and he played off everything prima vista … |
| 16 | Where before , half the amusement of seeing the New FADS play was seeing whether the five unlikely groovers could carry off their groove thing without sounding like A Certain Ratio after one too many spliffs , now there is a confidence , and with it comes a hint of threat . |
| 17 | Pan 's People show off their winter wardrobe |
| 18 | Fooled , he let her in , and she ran straight to his jazz records and whipping off her court shoe brought the heel down on his favourite Blossom Dearie . |
| 19 | A FEAST of arias and overtures is in store for Belfast 's classical music lovers as Belfast Education and Library Board kicks off its summer season of concerts next week . |
| 20 | He moved , turning off his reading lamp and yawning . |
| 21 | Jane was able to sketch nearly one hundred ships , as well as paying off his mess bill by painting decorative panels in his host ship 's wardroom . |
| 22 | I could scream , ‘ Piss off you paddy wanker , ’ but instead I sit . |
| 23 | Hearing the man , Dara stripped off his sackcloth cloak and threw it down . |
| 24 | He cut off his shoulder length hair , put on a suit , and started dealing with bankers . |
| 25 | ( The erratic flight may be produced by the moth by just switching off its steering mechanism . |
| 26 | Give you time to sleep off your jet lag . ’ |
| 27 | She dashed off her orange juice , and stood up . |
| 28 | The bathroom — which was lavish even by Mayfair standards — was all glass and cool , muted blues , which had looked lovely when she had put it in , but which she now thought was cold and vaguely forbidding , and as she pulled off her pyjama top , she thought it made her flesh look white and dead . |
| 29 | She had dutifully done so and together they had selected an array of clothes in the deep greens and blues , the rich wine shades that Thomas said best set off her porcelain skin and burnished hair . |
| 30 | When he did , shouting and screaming , they tried to grab hold of him but only succeeded in ripping off his jacket sleeve as he bounced back over the wall . |