Example sentences of "[vb base] off [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Meister in his book Hypochondria writes : ‘ Those physicians who shrug off a suffering patient because they regard his condition as psychosomatic or hypochondriacal are not acting as professional healers … |
| 2 | All she wanted was to turn the clock back and shrug off the ghastly realisation that her marriage was not what she 'd thought it was . |
| 3 | Peel off a thick layer as the flesh immediately under the skin is hard and bitter . |
| 4 | ‘ Send off the personal quotation request or phone direct on 0483 754 500 ’ |
| 5 | send off the completed form and affidavit , your marriage certificate and either the court fee or a completed form claiming exemption from the court fee ( this form comes with the application ) . |
| 6 | Just fill in and send off the Free Trial Card . |
| 7 | These pins are used to hold the coils on the board ; snip off the odd pin on that side of the bobbin which has three pins . |
| 8 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 9 | Then we run tepid water and wash off the dried blood . |
| 10 | Given a large corpse of anything on the bottom of the Amazon or even the Thames , most fish will ‘ attack ’ and gnaw off the odd bit . |
| 11 | Cut off a narrow strip around the edge and use to line the dampened rim of the pie plate . |
| 12 | Get some syphon tubing from a shop that sells home-brewing equipment and cut off a manageable length . |
| 13 | The shop-keeper nodded with eventual understanding , cut off a huge bunch of bright green grapes and threw them on to the scales . |
| 14 | Testing machines now exist which have vice-like grips , called ‘ friction grips ’ , so that one can take an ordinary bar of metal , cut off a short length , and break it in tension . |
| 15 | Cut off the top quarter of the bottle so that it forms a sort of funnel . |
| 16 | Cut off the top growth of catmint , but leave the pruning of caryopteris and fuchsias until new growth appears . |
| 17 | Turn the bag inside out , shake off the surplus moisture and replace the bag inside-out on the canes . |
| 18 | ENGLAND stars Jason Leonard ( left ) and Dewi Morris show off the new kit with David Pears ( middle ) in the away strip . |
| 19 | Fine-slatted Venetian blinds show off the tall sash windows , which are too elegant to be obscured by curtains . |
| 20 | Three of a kind … models show off the latest range of styles which will be on display at the Tesco and RSCPA Cruelty Free show at London 's Regents College in London this weekend Picture : DAVID GILES |
| 21 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 22 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
| 23 | There are a lot of things I 'd love to see — and when things cool off a little bit I 'll definitely go . |
| 24 | The aim of the game is to gas as many Jews as possible and then sell off the residual gold teeth . |
| 25 | SCOTLAND set out to salvage their under-21 season when they round off a disappointing campaign against the Welsh at Myreside , Edinburgh , today ( 3pm ) . |
| 26 | The reader has identified with the person you have put at the centre of your story and that person must , for the reader 's satisfaction , bring off the final solution . |
| 27 | Stuck with posters advertising the return of a group called Sttonehenge ( sic ) , ‘ Il Coraggio di Essere Giovani ’ , apricot coloured walls give off a lazy warmth . |
| 28 | By this time our conscious , if unspoken , strategy was to provoke the police into over-reaction and thus spark off a mass reaction against the authorities . |
| 29 | He wanted to hold him safe from every profaning touch , and fend off every malignant thought from him . |
| 30 | The Algarve for a beach , sports , lolling kind of family holiday , the rest of the country for sightseeing and travel off the beaten track . |