Example sentences of "[vb base] off the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Or , in Sainsbury-ad speak : Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers . |
| 3 | ‘ Send off the personal quotation request or phone direct on 0483 754 500 ’ |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Just fill in and send off the Free Trial Card . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then we run tepid water and wash off the dried blood . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Cut off the two inches , or better still four , add forty quids ' worth of ‘ body wave ’ and it 's ‘ My word , you do look well . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ If we cut off the right hands of thieves in this country , we would be well off — because then there would be no burglaries . ’ |
| 12 | Cut off the top quarter of the bottle so that it forms a sort of funnel . |
| 13 | Cut off the top growth of catmint , but leave the pruning of caryopteris and fuchsias until new growth appears . |
| 14 | Turn the bag inside out , shake off the surplus moisture and replace the bag inside-out on the canes . |
| 15 | ENGLAND stars Jason Leonard ( left ) and Dewi Morris show off the new kit with David Pears ( middle ) in the away strip . |
| 16 | Fine-slatted Venetian blinds show off the tall sash windows , which are too elegant to be obscured by curtains . |
| 17 | A few carefully placed lamps will provide atmosphere and show off the surrounding plants . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | These treatments kill off the tiny worms in the large intestine but because the eggs may still be around for a while , everyone must be scrupulous about scrubbing their nails and ultra-hygienic when handling food . |
| 20 | Pesticides kill off the beneficial insects as well as the destructive ones creating an imbalance in nature and wasting valuable assets . |
| 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 | The uphill fairways kill off the old boys . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In Somerset , the old drove-ways still branch off the main routes into the moors , like spines on a stickleback . |
| 26 | ‘ Lay off the one-word questions , will you ? |
| 27 | The aim of the game is to gas as many Jews as possible and then sell off the residual gold teeth . |
| 28 | His grandfather had explained that the only true way to bake bread was to burn it black and then rasp off the burnt extremities with a coarse file . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Pigs are sandwiched between rhinos and hippos in the encyclopedia , and kick off the even-toed ungulates — ‘ The most spectacular and diverse array of large , land-dwelling mammals alive today . ’ |