Example sentences of "[vb base] off a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched her expertly snip off a length of trade cotton , then almost run to a shelf and move a fifty-pound sack of flour . |
| 2 | Break off a piece of pastel about half an inch long , holding the pastel between forefinger and thumb , and drag the side of the pastel across the paper , applying firm pressure as you do so . |
| 3 | One of them showed a pair of slim , naked legs , cut off a fraction of a millimetre below the groin , running through a meadow full of dewy grass and pale blue cornflowers . |
| 4 | Cut off a piece of plant just below the place where the leaves join the stem . |
| 5 | ‘ Every day people see their house as a wasting , dwindling asset , the longer we put off a return of consumer confidence , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Mr Brown 's supporters reel off a list of bills that the Speaker has influenced ; but even they have to admit that many of his greatest victories have been stopping ‘ evil ’ Republican laws rather than creating good Democratic ones . |
| 7 | You spend twenty minutes on it every night , and you scratch off a layer of dead skin . |
| 8 | He could describe the land registration bureaucracy of the Ottoman Empire , define the intricacies of land expropriation and run off a photocopy of the Israeli Absentee property Law ( 1950 ) in the twinkling of an eye . |
| 9 | I felt scared that I would be seen as crazy — that I might even go crazy : that I would begin to see little green men , jump off a tower in the belief I could fly , or just sit in a corner humming ‘ Om ’ . |
| 10 | Much of this was funded by personal borrowing , providing jobs in Credit and Banking ; the security for lending often coming from people 's own homes , as the desire to own and furnish better homes set off a spiral of house-price inflation . |
| 11 | To her horror , his words set off a ripple of excitement within her , and she felt a betraying warmth flood her cheeks . |
| 12 | El Niño is apparently triggered by the warming of ocean currents in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific , which set off a pattern of weather bringing drought to many tropical areas , but heavier than normal rain to the western American seaboard . |
| 13 | Take a little Can , pluck out the eyes of Grace Jones , warmed-up Kraftwerk , siphon off the froth of Aretha Franklin 's ‘ passion ’ , snatch a little Glitter leather and smear off a fingerful of Bowie mascara , ignite with the spark of a torch song , and you 've got — Eurythmics ! |
| 14 | It also emphasizes the need for ‘ money-spinning ’ enterprises if the smallholder is to rise above a very bare subsistence living and pay off a mortgage at the same time . |
| 15 | The four-strong Plain Clothes Productions carry off a variety of historical and other roles with a sort of grunge-Brechtian style of acting . |
| 16 | They even dash off a version of Magazine 's ‘ Shot by Both Sides ’ , that would have seriously disturbed Howard Devoto if he was present . |
| 17 | My home club is Coombe Hill in Kingston , Surrey , and I play off a handicap of 17 . |
| 18 | 14 Remember the students want to respect you and they want to learn ; you start off a class with a great fund of goodwill . |
| 19 | Ian , a cracking debut ; first of all take us through that er first half save , you had nothing to do , conditions awful and yet you pull off a save like that . |
| 20 | The children beat off a challenge from nine other Darlington schools . |
| 21 | The decision was made as the Labour leader , John Smith , resoundingly beat off a challenge from his own Euro-rebels bent on destroying the treaty . |