Example sentences of "[vb base] off the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fry off the beef in its own marinade . |
| 2 | Here , you must also treat the dog 's bed and bedding , and possibly the carpet , because fleas breed off the dog in its environment . |
| 3 | Germany , the defending world champions , kick off the tournament in Chicago and will play two of their three first-round matches there . |
| 4 | One resembles a small trowel with a knurled wheel , that sets up a vibration to help the seeds drop off the end in a controlled way — a useful aid for sowing in straight lines . |
| 5 | I go to my nephew 's for tea on Saturday afternoons and if the weather 's not too bad I get off the bus in Glenfair Road and walk down the Drive . |
| 6 | I am running a 1986 V8 County 90 which at 25,000 miles has no more than normal backlash in the transmission line , yet a most irritating noise has developed which can only be described as a clunk that occurs whenever I apply or lift off the throttle in any gear . |
| 7 | These initially hair-like fibres seek out and feed off the cellulose in the wood which is digested by the fungus to leave a dry , desiccated and fragile shell of wood-fibre or lignin which , in the absence of the cementitious cellulose , can not continue to perform any structural role required of the timber . |
| 8 | It is extremely likely that some of these detected features will not be present in the target , and so the detection of these non-target features in the mask will , via the inhibitory links from feature to letter level , turn off the activation in the target letter 's detector . |
| 9 | " Bloody keep off the moor in future , " said Dadda . |
| 10 | By observing how a list is managed I found out that although lists are kept chronologically , patients seldom come off the list in that order . |
| 11 | " You 'll be met when you step off the boat in Kingston , and taken to a safe house , and then you 'll be absorbed into the organization at some level . |