Example sentences of "[v-ing] off the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 3 | The other end was already harnessed to a team of horses , so it was easy work pulling off the entire roof in one smack . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Stanley made short work of undoing the nuts , pulling off the old wheel and slipping on the new . |
| 6 | When the time comes to settle your Access account , you have the option of paying off the whole amount owing , without it costing you a penny in interest , or of repaying a portion of it and paying interest on what is left . |
| 7 | As hire purchase was judged to be a system of hiring with an option to buy ( by eventually paying off the full credit price ) , HP escaped the controls of the Moneylenders Acts . |
| 8 | TRAP TWO : Running up big bills on credit cards means you 'll have trouble paying off the full debt when the statement arives . |
| 9 | Breathless , she said tightly , ‘ Would you mind switching off the overhead light ? ’ |
| 10 | He would no doubt be fending off the polite questioning of Ralarth 's lords throughout the meal . |
| 11 | She turned to run , but Goldman was on her , grabbing her arms , her shoulders , fending off the wild blows that she aimed at his face . |
| 12 | That goal is now drawing closer , along with the goal of finishing off the uppity Gaddafi , a perfect hate figure in an election year . |
| 13 | I had taken to finishing off the flat beer left in cans by the members of Norris 's itinerant card school after its frequent visits chez nous , and was seriously considering starting to steal from bookshops in an attempt to raise some cash . |
| 14 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 15 | After a few days swanking round relatives and old schoolfriends , the novelty of showing off the new clothes and slang such as ‘ She stinks on ice , kid , ’ wore off . |
| 16 | In a display of bravado , the IRA staged a publicity stunt , showing off the new device to two freelance journalists . |
| 17 | He had never made any bones about it , and , to be honest , he was much more use out on the slopes , chatting people up , showing off the exclusive styles they sold and being a general advertisement for the place . |
| 18 | She had used make-up sparingly due to the heat , and had chosen a blouson dress with thin straps , made of numerous tiny pleats that fanned out as she walked showing off the pastel rainbow hues of the silky material . |
| 19 | Shaking off the very idea of a German father was a wriggle of the shoulders , the thin cotton sleeves pushed down . |
| 20 | That certainly would fit very well with the familiar notion of a writer shaking off the anguished preoccupations of childhood and adolescence , free now in his maturity to put ironic distance between himself and that world , but it wo n't do . |
| 21 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 22 | Most Iraqis share his conviction that , although Iraq started the war , it served the interests of all Arabs by fighting off the Persian onslaught . |
| 23 | We managed to decrease the noise by backing off the low-mid rumble point and the 11kHz hiss by about 13dB , but to attenuate the DI output down to a reasonable level we 'd have had to use a separate DI box , and that means making up a special XLR-to-jack lead . |
| 24 | Is it worth killing off the unsuccessful part in order to concentrate resources on the successful side ? |
| 25 | By killing off the stable element of the fictional character , she abandons a realist notion of the individual identity and the narrative norms which subtend it , freeing the way for a concept of subjectivity and a form of writing in which these factors do not come into play . |
| 26 | It is going to be quite a fine balance between the need to cut spending , cutting taxation and not killing off the tender recovery , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Among particularly serious instances of pollution picked out in the report were the following : , Heavy use of pesticides polluting rivers across the crop growing areas of the Russian republic ; , Untreated industrial effluent from the Volga slowly killing off the marine life of the Caspian Sea ; , High levels of dioxin in mothers ' milk in Moscow ; , The continuing consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident , rendering much of the countryside of the Ukraine and Belorussia uncultivatable ; , Waste from aluminium factories in Uzbekistan , poisoning the land for miles around . |
| 28 | Catastrophes would serve a useful function in killing off the old species just as the conditions were changing , leaving the world clear for the Creator to step in and design a whole new population adapted to the environment that would stabilize after the upheaval . |