Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [verb] off [art] " in BNC.

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1 The result will also give a huge lift to Alex Ferguson 's Manchester United team who were originally due to travel to Norwich today but went there instead on Tuesday and pulled off a significant victory .
2 The distribution was apparently hampered by strict curfew regulations , imposed in the occupied territories as a security measure since the morning of Jan. 16 in view of the level of popular support for Saddam Hussein and to ward off a fresh upsurge in the Palestinian intifada .
3 I drove north into Georgia and pulled off the road into Brunswick .
4 The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain .
5 Once the task is complete we return to Fort George and drop off the RUC .
6 From these depths , England went to India and pulled off a remarkable triumph after losing the first Test , and then beat Australia 3–1 in 1985 .
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