Example sentences of "[verb] off a [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 | TWO YOUTHS miraculously escaped injury last night when the car they were travelling in crashed off a busy road and into a subway . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Next it was Nixon 's turn in the Tranmere goal to pull off a spectacular save from Mitchell . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | Peel off a thick layer as the flesh immediately under the skin is hard and bitter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A FORMER Marine commando of 73 beat off a masked raider armed , masked raider who burst into an elderly woman 's home . |
| 17 | A BOY of 11 beat off a drunken sex attacker who jumped on his mother as they walked through a churchyard . |
| 18 | Blantyre 's Jim McCann became the fifth Scot through to the second round when he beat off a determined challenge from New Zealand 's Robin Jefferson . |
| 19 | ENGLAND skip John Bell and his Cumbria partners Ian Carruthers , Stephen Farish and Andrew Baxter , beat off a spirited recovery from a young Ely team to scramble to the fours title by a single shot at the Manchester Unity National Indoor Championships at Melton Mowbray . |
| 20 | The DI knocking off a local villain ! ’ |
| 21 | At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’ |
| 22 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 23 | Most people know the main animal sources of protein and can reel off a basic list : meat , fish , eggs , and dairy products such as milk , yogurt , and cheese . |
| 24 | Really , the Earth is flat because people would fall off a round Earth . |
| 25 | You ca n't talk about it with him because the word ‘ art ’ starts off a whole series of shocked , guilty ideas in him . |
| 26 | He now got Malik , caught off a too-free cover-drive , giving him 3 for 4 in 13 balls . |
| 27 | The dog moved off a few paces and turned back , wagging his tail anxiously . |
| 28 | DO YOU FANCY leaping off a high place attached to earth by only a large rubber band ? |
| 29 | The spiritual crisis in William 's life came to a head one Christmas when he was involved in an attempt to deceive his master by passing off a counterfeit shilling . |
| 30 | This portable burglar alarm will give off a loud shriek when it detects movement — good for unattended tents , caravans or boats , or just for extra security at night |