Example sentences of "[vb past] off [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introduction of competition and credit control triggered off a considerable amount of comment and criticism from the City as well as from within academic circles . |
| 2 | The visit to South Africa of several eminent Irish Rugby Football Union officers and their wives — among them the president , Ronnie Dawson — triggered off an acrimonious debate which looks likely to run on in spite of an IRFU statement regretting the safari . |
| 3 | In returning to the old imagery of the prince as the bearer of the sword , the reformers had in fact triggered off an important set of associations . |
| 4 | TWO YOUTHS miraculously escaped injury last night when the car they were travelling in crashed off a busy road and into a subway . |
| 5 | We are inundated with rabbits , so we fenced off a rabbit-proof area for vegetables and netted the top — the pigeons , caterpillars and slugs ate the lot . |
| 6 | The big Southampton striker does n't score enough for his country ; this was only his second for Northern Ireland — but it was Hughes tried a shot off the edge of the box , the ball cannoned off a Lithuanian defender and into the path of Dowie who rifled an unstoppable drive past Martin Kenas from 14 yards . |
| 7 | A FORMER Marine commando of 73 beat off a masked raider armed , masked raider who burst into an elderly woman 's home . |
| 8 | A BOY of 11 beat off a drunken sex attacker who jumped on his mother as they walked through a churchyard . |
| 9 | Blantyre 's Jim McCann became the fifth Scot through to the second round when he beat off a determined challenge from New Zealand 's Robin Jefferson . |
| 10 | ENGLAND skip John Bell and his Cumbria partners Ian Carruthers , Stephen Farish and Andrew Baxter , beat off a spirited recovery from a young Ely team to scramble to the fours title by a single shot at the Manchester Unity National Indoor Championships at Melton Mowbray . |
| 11 | " Private Eye " fell into this trap when it beat off an interim injunction from Robert Maxwell by promising to prove at trial that he had financed Neil Kinnock 's foreign travel in the hope of being awarded a peerage . |
| 12 | He now got Malik , caught off a too-free cover-drive , giving him 3 for 4 in 13 balls . |
| 13 | When they reached their van they drove off a short distance in case I was observing them . |
| 14 | Absolutely no one heard the faint tinkle as a little ventilation grille dropped off an outside wall . |
| 15 | The incident happened at about 5.10pm on Friday and police cordoned off a small area outside the market-place pub . |
| 16 | Fearful of protests or violence by citizens outraged by the army 's brutal assault on Tiananmen on 4 June , armed troops cordoned off a large area of central Peking , admitting only hand-picked spectators into the square . |
| 17 | Mark played off a low handicap , and he had a point . |
| 18 | One was a rather patrician young man from a firm of London stockbrokers who played off a single figure handicap at Sunningdale and was a special guest of the chairman of the sponsoring company . |
| 19 | Swingbeat New Editioners Bell Biv Devoe are hanging out in the lounge telling stories of how the helicopter in their latest video toppled off a windy roof . |
| 20 | The warning cry came from Petion , who got off a single shot at Richmann before the mercenary major swung the Winchester around and fired it with a roar . |
| 21 | In the programme , called Raiders of the Rainforest , Friends of the Earth alleges that MPL a subsidiary of Babcock Electrical Projects Ltd of Gloucester which is in turn controlled by FKI plc illegally siphoned off a significant proportion of this loan . |
| 22 | Elsewhere a lone swimmer fought off a chilling exhaustion , his senses dulled by three hours of silent reconnaissance swimming and crawling among the enemy 's beach defences . |
| 23 | A brewery which fought off a hostile takeover bid last year has announced record profits . |
| 24 | Although missing a number of players , Haslemere fought off a spirited Hale side to secure an important win . |
| 25 | In 1685 , in time of peace , a Spanish fleet was forced to salute a French one after fighting which involved considerable casualties ; and in 1688 French and Dutch squadrons fought off the Spanish coast , again in time of peace , over the same issue . |
| 26 | The entrance to the Casa Sciorto led off a narrow side-street , its huge carved door embellished with massive brass door-knockers in the shape of diving dolphins . |
| 27 | Nenna and the two girls shook off a certain teatime drowsiness and went back on deck , where they stood astounded . |
| 28 | STEFFI GRAF shook off a sluggish start against Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere by winning 12 of the last 13 games to roar into the U.S. Open final at Flushing Meadow . |
| 29 | SHARES shook off a massive jump in the jobless figure and went up again yesterday . |
| 30 | Richie angrily shook off the restraining hand . |