Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] off [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked me up and clear of the beer keg so that the flex holding my legs came off clear hut it stayed on my ankles , acting as a hobble . |
| 2 | He called upon Iranians to throw off foreign influence . |
| 3 | summits shrugging off grim forest |
| 4 | The isotopes give off long-lasting alpha radiation and the waste will remain dangerous for 3000 years or more . |
| 5 | But the most striking anomaly of Labour 's plans is the way it treats millionaires living off unearned income . |
| 6 | Water patterns bounce off polished chrome , the fibreglass shell is honed to a waxy sheen of pearl . |
| 7 | Charmer Nigel steps in after plumbers rip off young mother |
| 8 | ‘ In some parts of the UK cuts in local authority spending and the move to the purchaser-provider split meant that for the first time students coming off social work courses were having real difficulties finding jobs ’ Weinstein said . |
| 9 | The debate over 1990 funding for the NEA , and Jesse Helms 's attempts to cut off federal funding for art that he and the fundamentalist lobby find obscene , continues . |
| 10 | ‘ Interest rates twice as high as those of our competitors choke off British investment . |