Example sentences of "[v-ing] off [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a daunting sight : a seventeen-foot drop through a complex arrangement of boulders , holes , standing waves , scissor waves , and lateral waves rebounding off a sheer wall on the right . |
| 2 | Grant leapt back behind the cover of the metal sheathed door and as he did so , pulled the trigger of the shotgun , blasting off a wild shot up the length of the corridor . |
| 3 | The DI knocking off a local villain ! ’ |
| 4 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 5 | DO YOU FANCY leaping off a high place attached to earth by only a large rubber band ? |
| 6 | The spiritual crisis in William 's life came to a head one Christmas when he was involved in an attempt to deceive his master by passing off a counterfeit shilling . |
| 7 | The average Jew was the average Englishman , living off a weekly pay packet of four pounds a week or less at a time when , in the worst-hit areas for unemployment , up to twenty per cent of the population was below the poverty line . |
| 8 | In the main trophy final Sevenoaks defeated St Olave 's School in a game worthy of rounding off an excellent day 's rugby . |
| 9 | The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car . |
| 10 | He introduced a concept , pioneered in Sweden , under which instead of writing off a bad debt , the creditor would arrange to have the debtor 's situation monitored , and then , when time was ripe , would ask for payment again . |
| 11 | In sum , I 'm writing off an odd paradox , criticising her for sometimes seeing herself as second best when Katell Keineg so patently is n't . |
| 12 | The K4 10km race saw a monumental collision just after the start , writing off an Austrian veneer K4 and a glass Polish one , together with much ill-humoured hurling of paddles . |
| 13 | President Franois Mitterrand , answering viewers ' questions in a television appearance yesterday , warned against writing off the Socialist Party as dead and said the first aim must be to reunite it . |
| 14 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 15 | This seventeenth-century mosaic ( above , right ) illustrates the way in which different species of small birds may uniquely work together to deal with the shared problem of seeing off a feared predator . |
| 16 | The ‘ rescue ’ of Continental recalls a famous victory for Germany 's business elite in seeing off a foreign interloper in the 1970s . |
| 17 | She had to seduce Jim by whipping off a false beard disguise and transforming herself into an exotic belly-dancer . |
| 18 | And let's not forget Western Samoa , Canada and Italy — with the last two really giving the All Blacks a fright — and Ireland , who were so near to bringing off a great quarter-final victory . |
| 19 | CORNARD United were desperately close to pulling off a famous victory , with cup holders Sudbury being saved by a late goal to force a replay , writes ALAN COCKSEDGE . |
| 20 | Fortunately , Alan Judge was in fine form , pulling off a great save to keep Hereford in the game . |
| 21 | Shearer demonstrating just why he is the most complete striker in the game today , was always at the heart of Blackburn 's best moves , and in the 55th minute he instigated an attack which culminated in Mike Hooper pulling off a desperate save to keep out a Gordon Cowans drive . |
| 22 | Halfway up I 'm bombarded by icicles falling from the overhangs above , while Graham is somewhere in the swirling mist , pulling off an impressive lead . |
| 23 | The other end was already harnessed to a team of horses , so it was easy work pulling off the entire roof in one smack . |
| 24 | Pulling off the silky dress with trembling hands , then the slips of white lace which did service as bra and pants , she angrily kicked off the low-heeled white sandals , raked her long blonde hair out of its French plait , and then plunged gratefully for the privacy of the small en-suite bathroom , standing beneath the shower for a long , soothing soak before she climbed into bed in the baggy jade T-shirt which she wore as a nightshirt . |
| 25 | Meanwhile Stanley made short work of undoing the nuts , pulling off the old wheel and slipping on the new . |
| 26 | ‘ This fixation with selling off every remaining part of our national life is a catastrophe unfolding before us . ’ |
| 27 | On the first floor , leading off a covered balcony , were the chambers of the fellows and scholars . |
| 28 | A policeman held out his arms as if heading off a loose horse . |
| 29 | but the breakage of isolated molars is divided between chipping , where single cusps or ends of salient angles of the tooth are broken , and splitting , where the break runs vertically through the crown , separating off a whole section of cusp and root or a whole lobe of a microtine tooth . |
| 30 | He was one of those lucky children whose economy of effort never showed up in examination results which were invariably straight ‘ A's , and he was particularly good at dashing off a 1000-word essay while others were still biting their pen-ends . |