Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] off a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation of the theatricality of the social drama leads detectives to lay emphasis on ‘ the big job ’ and the arrest of the professional ‘ prig ’ who commits the big burglary or pulls off a daring robbery . |
| 2 | ‘ It has proved reliable , and the fact that it is four-wheel drive is very handy if you 're coping with a greasy slipway or launching off a beach , ’ says Peaks . |
| 3 | We spilt a few beans and touched the odd ( female ) nerve and laughed off a few fiascos . |
| 4 | Other drivers had taken a break and carried off a number of her fellow spectators , but Simon had yet to appear . |
| 5 | Done it easy , shoved a gun into his mouth and squeezed off a ScumStopper through the roof of his mouth , exploded his brain . |
| 6 | Immediately another shot cracked from the doorway and ricocheted off a rock a couple of yards to his right . |
| 7 | It also emphasizes the need for ‘ money-spinning ’ enterprises if the smallholder is to rise above a very bare subsistence living and pay off a mortgage at the same time . |
| 8 | Had the sentry panicked at the sound of a galloping horse and fired off a lucky shot , or was there a more sinister design ? |
| 9 | During an unprecedented Balmoral summit , he will thrash out a pay-as-you-earn plan with the Queen and stave off a constitutional crisis . |
| 10 | Get some syphon tubing from a shop that sells home-brewing equipment and cut off a manageable length . |
| 11 | Before that , though , I opened a can of whole chicken and ripped off a leg dribbling with jelly . |
| 12 | Just a scrape and snipping off a polyp . ’ |
| 13 | He could describe the land registration bureaucracy of the Ottoman Empire , define the intricacies of land expropriation and run off a photocopy of the Israeli Absentee property Law ( 1950 ) in the twinkling of an eye . |
| 14 | The 30-year-old Mandale Harrier was making his first appearance over the country for a year , but he broke clear on the second of the three laps of a gruelling nine kilometre course and held off a late challenge by Newton Aycliffe 's Kevin Vose to win by an emphatic 13 seconds . |
| 15 | A forced devaluation would clearly be potentially lethal for the EMS , breaking the key French franc-German mark link and sparking off a round of competitive devaluations in southern Europe involving the peseta , escudo and lira . |
| 16 | He put a hand to his cheek and dabbed off a tear ; the ammoniac fetor was crackling in his sinuses . |
| 17 | She sets a trap and sets off a series of events that entangle household , family and friends . |
| 18 | But she sets a trap and sets off a series of events that entangle household , family and friends . |
| 19 | Hastings , who has played only 40 minutes on the tour , increased speculation that all was not well when he declined a round of golf today significant as the Watsonians star is a golf fanatic and plays off a seven handicap . |
| 20 | Gabriel bowed his own head and dashed off a prayer , trying not to let his knees touch against Lucie 's . |
| 21 | During contests he was as jumpy as a schoolgirl and gave off a static charge of nervous energy . |
| 22 | When she did finally reach for the food , or lure , all she would do was lean over and rip off a piece , rather than step on to the glove . |
| 23 | A 19-year-old girl was injured by the stolen car which hurtled up an alley and rebounded off a wall before hitting her and another wall . |
| 24 | To fill the vertical joints , turn the hawk and separate off a small amount of mortar , lifting it on the underside of the trowel |
| 25 | Philip picked up the roll of wire from beside the hide and clipped off a good length of wire . |
| 26 | Cuban refugees , trained by the Americans , were to invade the island and set off a spontaneous rising of the Cuban people against Castro . |
| 27 | Some mares will actually stand and paw at a paddock fence because they want to get to a stallion that is a couple of paddocks away — consequently they are likely to cut a leg or rip off a shoe if the bottom wire of the fence is too close to the ground . |
| 28 | He turned to the Saudi nightwatchman and rattled off a stream of Arabic . |
| 29 | Those who imagine that they see the spectre of euthanasia raising its head look with particular misgiving at the doctor 's decision to discontinue ventilation.4 Those lawyers who have given the issue their attention have accepted the common factual assumption that turning off a ventilator is significant , and have then sought legal arguments by which to justify it.5 For they have had to recognize both that it is a common medical practice , and that it is one which prima facie calls for some justification . |
| 30 | Time stood still and suddenly there was only one focus — this mounting , spiralling pressure that set off a high-pitched singing inside her head and made breathing hazardous . |