Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rear body capping is drilled off and the rear corner capping also . |
| 2 | Andy takes the branch we hit the man with and wedges it under the grating ; part of it sticks through but there 's a stump where a smaller branch has broken off and the grating rests on that , held a half-metre or so off the stone rim . |
| 3 | which is burnt off when the whole thing gets fired in the kiln , so what will have to happen is the , your pots you 've done so far , once they 're thoroughly dried and go into the kiln , they 're fired at a high temperature and then they 'll come out this bit fired you 'll then separate them with oxide pastes , dip them into glaze , which I 'll explain in a minute , and re-fire them at a higher temperature , the glazed would |
| 4 | The high destination boxes of the three ex-Corporation cars just cleared the troughing under these two bridges , but the hoops of the ex-SouthmeT cars did not and had to be sawn off and the upper deck lamps were wired onto the handrails . |
| 5 | The children stand around the leader in a semi-circle and are numbered off until the last two become Jack and then King or Queen . |
| 6 | This probably means that Earth may initially have been hotter than some scientists suggest , since even these heavy noble gases were driven off when the hot gaseous molecules reached high escape velocities . |
| 7 | The two sides agreed to resume border trade which had been cut off since the 1962 Sino-Indian war [ see p. 38006 ] , and joint working groups on the border issue met in New Delhi in August 1990 and in Beijing in May 1991 . |
| 8 | And the one at the House is cut off since the old lady died . ’ |
| 9 | The Queen will consult senior ministers who are expected to recommend that the trip should be put off until the political and economic situation , turbulent since the collapse of communism , has settled down . |
| 10 | The day began at 10 am for rehearsals for the next production but if this proved unsuccessful , it was taken off and the new production rushed on . |
| 11 | After a short time , however , transistor T2 is switched off and the winding current flows from the supply voltage VL via diode D2 and transistor Tl . |
| 12 | At the end of the phase excitation interval transistor Tl is also switched off and the winding current is left to flow around the path through diodes DI and D2 . |
| 13 | At the end of the excitation interval both transistors are switched off and the winding current freewheels via diodes D1 and D2 . |
| 14 | The suspension containing the unlabelled indium-111 was poured off and the labelled cells were resuspended in 6 ml of cell-free plasma . |
| 15 | The supernatant containing unlabelled 1 1 1 In was poured off and the labelled cells were resuspended in 6.0 ml of cell free plasma . |
| 16 | The front door and the vestibule door had been blown off and the heavy mahogany coat stand lay across the foot of the stairs . |
| 17 | The whole incident was triggered off when the local electricity board disconnected the power supply to the empty shop , without realising what was soon to be swimming in the melted ice ! |