Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Egypt and Syria have a smaller stake in the war , but they also have sound pragmatic reasons for seeing off a rival . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to run the business myself , I have plans for paying off the bills of each creditor in instalments and then trying to build up the business again . |
| 3 | It proved its mettle in trials by shrugging off a 30mph crash into a 100-ton concrete block . |
| 4 | Most Iraqis share his conviction that , although Iraq started the war , it served the interests of all Arabs by fighting off the Persian onslaught . |
| 5 | Two Phillips & Drew analysts , for example , have just shown how Coloroll ‘ created ’ its 1988–89 profits by writing off the goodwill on the Crowther carpet acquisition — the very buy that broke its back . |
| 6 | Tommy told Los Angeles police his Ranger went out of control and skidded to a halt within inches of plunging off a Hollywood Hills cliff . |