Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pron] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever you do , do n't press both sides of the neck at the same time : you could diminish the flow of blood to the head , or even cut it off . |
| 2 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 3 | The dealers then resorted to extraordinary preventive measures , such as keeping sellers indefinitely " on hold " until they rang off , or simply cutting them off immediately . |
| 4 | Provided he could use the motion , he might be able to rock away at the melancholy and eventually shift it off its fierce sticking point . |
| 5 | That God 's creatures should revolt against him , and so cut themselves off from the ground of their own being , is an ‘ impossible possibility ’ which has nonetheless been actualised . |
| 6 | How much are you smoking ? ’ and I said ‘ About a gram ’ and he said : ‘ Well , all I can advise you is to go out and buy a gram of heroin and just wean yourself off . ’ |
| 7 | One very common technique that people use is making lists of things to be done , and physically crossing them off as and when they are completed . |
| 8 | I 'm terribly lazy and always put it off until the last minute . ’ |
| 9 | At the end of spawning I had over 20 eggs plastered to the sides of the aquarium , so I took a razor blade and carefully scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub in their own aquarium water . |
| 10 | Single miners , and those with families left behind , tended to drink a great deal , perhaps to drown their loneliness and sorrows , and often slept it off in barns and outbuildings adjoining the pubs and beer-houses . |
| 11 | Each village believes itself to be totally different from any other and often marks itself off in a variety of symbolic ways from those which surround it . |
| 12 | Some woman turned up on his doorstep and simply swept him off to the county cricket ground in Taunton in her car . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The language of Newton ! ’ he cried , scribbling figures on the blackboard and immediately wiping them off with a damp rag as though he were doing vanishing tricks . |
| 14 | Since this issue of the NI is devoted to language we thought we might join them for once , but give our own particular slant and maybe set you off in a different direction . |
| 15 | Lydia put a mug of tea in front of her master and then took herself off to the dairy , where she and Martha unashamedly listened at the door . |
| 16 | With my confidence about as durable as a wet tissue , I thought I 'd better do whatever needed to be done with it well before he arrived , and then wash it off my fingers and anywhere else visible and smellable . |
| 17 | A small jeweller in Switzerland , who for years had made good profits by flagrantly copying de Chavigny designs , using inferior stones , low-carat metals and cheap workmanship , and then passing them off as de Chavigny originals through an impenetrable network of shady dealers and retailers , found its bank was suddenly very glad to extend credit for new workshops and an expansion programme . |
| 18 | And then we used When it g we used to fetch it off then like , cut it and then fetch it off in sheaths , like h , you know , like a big slice of bread . |
| 19 | The first members of the teams run up to the suitcases and put everything on , run round the back of the rest of the team and then take everything off and put it back in the suitcase before running back and touching the next member of the team who repeats the process . |
| 20 | You could n't credit the money and then take it off later ? |
| 21 | He did n't like to think he was the kind of person who took things from strangers in pubs and then passed them off as presents to girls he was supposed to love . |
| 22 | Tiller waited until her younger sister was capable of putting over a song and dance , and then sent them off touring the country as a double act . |
| 23 | He left Kathleen to strap the toes together with a gauze swab between them to maintain the alignment , and then sent them off with a few coproxamol for the pain . |
| 24 | There was n't any huge promotion or hype about the whole workwear thing as some people are suggesting , because it was all about a few people picking up on it and then promoting it off their own back . |
| 25 | They prowled across the soft carpet in their elegant high-heeled shoes , and then kicked them off to lounge seductively on the four-poster bed . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Flupper showed us the deadly thorn bushes that wrap round their prey like octopuses : and then whooshed us off at savage speeds — sometimes so fast he aquaplaned over the water . |
| 27 | Anyway Steve picked them up here and then dropped them off |
| 28 | Which brings us to one vital and final point on the matter of taking our fauna aloft and then casting them off to the winds not knowing exactly where they are going to land . |
| 29 | Whitlow driving the free kick into the wall and then lays it off to Lewis stabbed in and away by Collimore . |
| 30 | For a second , he watched it absently , and then hauled it off . |