Example sentences of "[vb past] off a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 'll have a beer tonight Knock , give the jake a rest , ’ said Yanto ‘ Suit yourself , ’ Knocker replied , and drew off a pint of bitter , which he held up to the light . |
| 2 | And underneath the story started : Gallant young Dr Kit Masters , Oxford Boxing Blue , beat off a gang of three Blackshirts when he found them attacking an old man who ran a tailor 's shop . |
| 3 | DAMON HILL beat off a string of top Formula One drivers , including new Williams-Renault team-mate Alain Prost , to record the fastest time in testing at France 's Signes circuit . |
| 4 | She let off a salvo of three guns , spaced so that the first ball fell well in front of the Genoese ship . |
| 5 | During an overnight assault through the Alps we bounced off a wall of snow but , luckily , only lost the number on the driver 's door . |
| 6 | His sketching speed was amply illustrated at our meeting : at the request of The Independent photographer for a cartoon to be positioned against a picture of him , within seconds a huge Asterix bounced off a sheet of paper . |
| 7 | ‘ So I stayed in Hong Kong , flew back and forth to New York , worked at Swift to keep myself busy , and fended off a lot of very annoying letters from my mother and sister , both incessantly wondering when I was going to come to Kenya and put myself through their combined emotional wringer . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ A week last Wednesday I dropped off a load of wood here on my way to Windsor races . |
| 9 | ‘ He ripped off a firm of disreputable City stockbrokers to the tune of about a million pounds and spent it on high living — yachts , mistresses , that sort of thing . |
| 10 | Purchased by David Thompson , of the Cheveley Park Stud , for a reported £80,000 , Party Politics shook off a catalogue of breathing problems and one case of breaking blood vessels to take the world 's most famous steeplechase by two and a half lengths . |
| 11 | At one point , laughing , they fired off a couple of rounds , ricocheting the bullets against a wall . |
| 12 | He suspected they were terrorists when the they failed to answer his challenge and he fired off a volley of shots from his semi-automatic rifle . |
| 13 | A few weeks ago it auctioned off a lot of its furniture and fixtures as unnecessary to the kind of business it would be doing . |
| 14 | SEXY Joe Cain and Michelle Cleaver were n't hiding too much in London 's Hyde Park yesterday as they showed off a range of new sexy outfits . |
| 15 | The whole scene looked like something soaked off a box of chocolates . |
| 16 | In a series of lunges he cut off a sector of north Vietnam and isolated much of Laos . |
| 17 | After a quarter of a century , the old village is much the same … but for some the development killed off a way of life . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Callaghan primed sympathetic colleagues to counter Benn , as Bill Rodgers , then Transport Secretary , remembers : ‘ Jim Callaghan tipped off a number of people to have their questions ready and [ Benn 's paper ] was completely massacred … . |
| 19 | He pulled off a couple of cracking saves , and for the first time this season United kept everything out . |
| 20 | She pulled off a handful of pink candyfloss and handed it to him . |
| 21 | KEEPER Alan Knight pulled off a string of excellent saves as Pompey made a flying start to the international stage of the Anglo-Italian Cup last night . |
| 22 | I held his toothbrush , left-handed the way he 'd have done , opened a container of cotton buds , pulled off a length of dental floss , examined a bottle of eardrops . |
| 23 | There was the debilitating link between Neath and Wales which carted off a team-load of Neath players to the Welsh squad and left them psychologically impaired ; when Wales stumbled , they tumbled from bad to worse . |
| 24 | He broke off a piece of bread , took a sip of beer , and attacked the herring with a knife and spoon . |
| 25 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 26 | She broke off a piece of baguette , spread it with butter and jam , stuffed it into her mouth . |
| 27 | Except perhaps , another New Zealander , Professor Ernest Rutherford , who , at Manchester University , succeeded in splitting the atom and in the process started off a chain of events that would be even more shattering than that set off by two shots . |
| 28 | What I 'm sorry I switched off a couple of minutes ago |
| 29 | ‘ Claire took off a couple of years ago . |
| 30 | Keeper Andy McClean brought off a couple of brilliant saves with goalbound efforts smacked by Hanvey and Dowey . |