Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] off [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Where the vessel is left unattended moored or anchored off an exposed beach or shore no claim will be payable for breaking adrift from the mooring or anchor and the subsequent damage . |
2 | Inflation of the theatricality of the social drama leads detectives to lay emphasis on ‘ the big job ’ and the arrest of the professional ‘ prig ’ who commits the big burglary or pulls off a daring robbery . |
3 | Hastings , who has played only 40 minutes on the tour , increased speculation that all was not well when he declined a round of golf today significant as the Watsonians star is a golf fanatic and plays off a seven handicap . |
4 | Just fill in and send off the Free Trial Card . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Or , in Sainsbury-ad speak : Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers . |
7 | After a week , Shaun calls back for the full container and drops off a new one . |
8 | Scrape the soil away from the plant to expose some of its larger roots and cut off a few of these with a sharp knife . |
9 | Get some syphon tubing from a shop that sells home-brewing equipment and cut off a manageable length . |
10 | Then we run tepid water and wash off the dried blood . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | A few carefully placed lamps will provide atmosphere and show off the surrounding plants . |
13 | Beyond that there is the sheer cost involved in visiting all of its customers and replacing the BT box on their wall with another , more expensive one and writing off the old analogue exchange line cards . |
14 | Pérez also proposed a meeting of oil producing and consuming countries in order to stabilize world oil prices and to ward off a possible domestic fiscal crisis . |
15 | The distribution was apparently hampered by strict curfew regulations , imposed in the occupied territories as a security measure since the morning of Jan. 16 in view of the level of popular support for Saddam Hussein and to ward off a fresh upsurge in the Palestinian intifada . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Had the sentry panicked at the sound of a galloping horse and fired off a lucky shot , or was there a more sinister design ? |
19 | 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 . ’ |
20 | The Algarve for a beach , sports , lolling kind of family holiday , the rest of the country for sightseeing and travel off the beaten track . |
21 | He wanted to hold him safe from every profaning touch , and fend off every malignant thought from him . |
22 | Ten black men took a sledge-hammer to the work , and knocked off a large part of his face . |
23 | A. T. You used to accumulate this time you worked over and try and get off the last four hours when nobody was about . |
24 | To fill the vertical joints , turn the hawk and separate off a small amount of mortar , lifting it on the underside of the trowel |
25 | During a slow lap on Friday , the first day of practice , Mansell had gone off line slightly and it was enough to have the Williams slide into a tyre barrier and snap off the right-hand suspension . |
26 | The result will also give a huge lift to Alex Ferguson 's Manchester United team who were originally due to travel to Norwich today but went there instead on Tuesday and pulled off a significant victory . |
27 | From these depths , England went to India and pulled off a remarkable triumph after losing the first Test , and then beat Australia 3–1 in 1985 . |
28 | Mr Corden took over as chairman in 1989 and pulled off an immediate coup by appointing Brian Little as manager . |
29 | Philip picked up the roll of wire from beside the hide and clipped off a good length of wire . |
30 | Gloria closed the sliding door , pulled down the blinds , and switched off the six lamps which Dot had just put on . |