Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] off [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2.15:LYNDA Ramsden 's Sillars Stalker lost his unbeaten record when runner-up to Bollin William at Haydock and is worth opposing off a 5lb higher mark here . |
| 2 | Egypt and Syria have a smaller stake in the war , but they also have sound pragmatic reasons for seeing off a rival . |
| 3 | Net profit after writing off the goodwill associated with acquisitions dropped further , by 16.9% to $15.1m . |
| 4 | After writing off an £819,000 investment in an unquoted company , there is nothing left for a dividend for the third year running . |
| 5 | Daley beat Mabbutt and Cundy in the 86th minute to score Villa 's fourth and , a minute from the end , Regis completed Tottenham humiliation after brushing off a Bergsson 's weak challenge . |
| 6 | After paying off the driver Nathan steered her into a busy , softly lit restaurant , and she had to admit he had guessed correctly that a meal did indeed top her list of priorities . |
| 7 | And after pulling off the midfielder on the hour , Branfoot admitted : ‘ I could see Terry being sent off and I did n't want him missing matches . |
| 8 | AMERICAN Civil War fanatic Ray Loveslife-Brown will hobble into his next ‘ battle ’ on crutches — after blowing off a toe with his musket . |
| 9 | The train was returning from ICI 's Castle Works to BASF after dropping off a load of acid at the plant . |
| 10 | YOUTH needed hospital treatment after falling off a wall at the Darlington Transport Company depot in Haughton Road early today . |
| 11 | After beating off a challenge to his priority by a Frenchman , C. A. Lamy — a discovery like this was a very important bit of property indeed — Crookes was elected into the Royal Society in 1863 , his sponsors including Faraday , Tyndall , Odling , Abel , Stewart and Herschel . |
| 12 | At the age of 12 , Kitto was taken on by his father to assist him in his trade , and it was shortly afterwards when he was working for his father slating a new roof that he lost his footing in the act of stepping off a ladder and fell thirty-five feet to the ground . |
| 13 | Because over-heating the gilding will ruin the finish , this stage is not carried to the extent of driving off every trace of mercury , so some evidence of the plating technique is left . |
| 14 | Have you ever tried the traditional approach of snapping off a bottle 's neck ? |
| 15 | This is a common way of paying off a mortgage — 70 per cent of the Halifax 's borrowers are on a budget plan . |
| 16 | Remember to take this into account if you are considering paying off the loan early . |
| 17 | Depending on the amount , you could put it towards paying off a mortgage , extending your home , taking a special holiday , even moving house — things you may have promised yourself for years , comforts you will certainly have earned by the time you retire . |
| 18 | North , second in the table and also undefeated , have given themselves a great chance of pulling off a win which will close the gap at the top . |
| 19 | But for the first time in his eight months in office , Mr Kaifu now has a chance of pulling off a coup big enough to ensure his survival as prime minister . |
| 20 | Harvey was certainly reliable but I think he was also capable of pulling off the classic save ( as in the Leeds-Arsenal Cup final ) . |
| 21 | He still maintains that he believes this , and makes a great show of sending off a manuscript to publishers down in London , trying to get them to publish a book expounding this view , but I know he 's just mischief-making again , and gets most of his pleasure from his acts of stunned disbelief and then righteous indignation when the manuscript is eventually returned . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Most top managers are very honest Amongst these people the idea of ripping off an act is offensive . |
| 24 | He maintains he 's doing ‘ a lot less blood and guts ’ although that 's difficult to believe as he chats of chopping off an arm of a ‘ volunteer ’ from the audience , although theatregoers may escape being sawn in half : ‘ I am not decided whether to saw a young lady from the audience or myself . |
| 25 | Seventeen blissful years with nary a thought of green sunblock , purple reflective goggles or navy blue knockers and not a knot in my stomach , in anticipation of hurtling off a glacier with sweat running down my longjohns into my boot-bindings . |
| 26 | Think of jumping off a platform 3 miles up in the sky , dropping to earth at 120 mph and all the way down , performing the spectacular . |
| 27 | Greene King could extend the deadline again … but at Morlanmd otnight they 're confident of fighting off the takeover |
| 28 | Now he is confident of shaking off a hamstring strain and extending his ever-present League record to 86 matches since his £1 million move from Leicester . |
| 29 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 30 | At the time when the Hundred Years war broke out , a defender had a more than even chance of beating off an attack . |