Example sentences of "[verb] off the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Vinny Samways has now come off the transfer list , Spurs look light in the key area . |
| 2 | The tot , Britain 's most premature surviving child , had just come off the danger list after a three-month fight for life . |
| 3 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 4 | By 1977 the family had accumulated enough capital , acumen and experience to pull off the property deal of the century : the purchase for $120m of eight Manhattan skyscrapers when the city of New York was on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 5 | Doormen in red coats , royal blue silk lining flapping an appearance , peel off the foyer glass doors , and forge forward to park the car and muster bags . |
| 6 | Peel off the lining paper , spread with the whipped cream and roll up from one short side . |
| 7 | Peel off the lining paper and roll up with the sugared paper . |
| 8 | ALAN SHEARER looks certain to shake off the leg injury that cut short his two-goal display against Leeds on Boxing Day . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Premier League leading scorer Alan Shearer looks certain to shake off the leg injury that cut short his two-goal display against Leeds on Boxing Day in time for Blackburn 's visist to Ipswich today . |
| 10 | The Hibs manager , Alex Miller , was also disappointed , because leading scorer , Darren Jackson , had failed to shake off the stomach injury which had seen him miss the Scottish Cup victory over Cowdenbeath earlier in the week . |
| 11 | Main picture : In the kitchen/dining room a magnificent arrangement of satin ribbons finishes off the table setting |
| 12 | SEND OFF THE GUARANTEE REGISTRATION CARD |
| 13 | IT IS EASY to write off the Science Museum as somewhere you have already visited . |
| 14 | So do send off the guarantee registration card ; the manufacturer usually asks for the return of the card as a term of his guarantee . |
| 15 | I let off the snow hook , Rayo heads for the tree , Kaisa leaps out of the way , Sunniva follows her round and it 's back to knitting in seconds . |
| 16 | We have become accustomed to writing off the engineering industry as one of the casualties in the reshaping of British industry during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 17 | After a wee dram or two to ward off the winter chill , hardier types venture forth carrying lumps of coal to pass on to others as good luck tokens . |
| 18 | They 're , they 're built in remote places so you 've got all the , the er wild life around them and then you 've got er farmland which uses pesticide and stuff like , which kills off the insect life and to birds all young and stuff like that . |
| 19 | Cut off the water supply to the tap to be converted , then unscrew the retaining screw holding the tap handle . |
| 20 | There 's no way that we can guarantee success , but it should be helpful to follow this technique : cut off the water supply to the basin , and disconnect the tails of the taps from the water supply pipes . |
| 21 | This was the same fault , as it turned out , which cut off the Bonsor Vein at its northern end , and became known as the Great , or Kernal Cross-course . |
| 22 | THE Government faxed a clear signal last week that it has written off the science vote . |
| 23 | That 's if we 're not going to set off the alarm system ! ’ |
| 24 | The CNAA made ‘ a tacit political bargain with the DES … for the CNAA to have had a dagger in its hand and kill off the government scheme would not have done ’ . |
| 25 | As Ronnie Convery found out , local activists hope to capitalise on the company 's financial problems to kill off the incinerator plan . |
| 26 | Wipe off the shading paint from the glass at the beginning of the month in Scotland and the north , and the end of the month in the south . |
| 27 | Everywhere , transistors give off the Reggae beat , making the place a party that never stops , and that might catch fire . |
| 28 | ( Most of those lie off the minute sheikdom of Brunei and are the personal property of the Sultan , who is in consequence the world 's richest man . |
| 29 | ( iii ) Draw off the cell suspension with a pipette and spin down for 8 min at 450 g ( it is our experience that thinner suspensions make better fixed preparations ) . |
| 30 | Draw off the cell suspension and centrifuge at 150 g for 10 min in a conical centrifuge tube . |