Example sentences of "[to-vb] off a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Portsmouth manager Jim Smith was yesterday preparing to hold off a bid from Nottingham Forest for £1.5 million rated striker Guy Whittingham . |
| 32 | If you are going to pay off a debt through a prepayment meter , you should get advice from a Citizen 's Advice Bureau who will be able to negotiate with the supplier to ‘ calibrate ’ the meter to pay of any debt at a rate you can afford . |
| 33 | One must say that it does so by providing a price sufficient to pay off a debt of sin before God . |
| 34 | Mother-of-three Julekha , who runs a gro-cery shop in Oswaldtwis-tle , Lancs , said : ‘ We wanted to pay off a mortgage on my house in Leicester with an interest-free loan of £39,000 . |
| 35 | But they will have to beat off a challenge from French millionaires Monaco , who head a posse of foreign clubs shadowing him at Forest . |
| 36 | To get off a train with a total stranger … |
| 37 | ‘ But the van has to drop off a couple of wheelchairs and things to other places first … |
| 38 | Ven made a brief stop to drop off a parcel at one of the shops in the town , obviously the reason for his having to make the journey . |
| 39 | The most familiar example of this is when one wishes to break off a piece of metal such as a wire or the opened lid of a tin can . |
| 40 | It envisages those visits being as varied as the need — from the person wanting a four-month placement to work with elderly people in Poland or an adoption agency in Jamaica , to someone who is planning a two-week holiday in California who wants to take off a couple of days to spend them visiting the local branch of the US National Association of Social Workers . |
| 41 | ‘ After the third retake , he threatened to take off a bit of clothing every time the scene was done again . |
| 42 | State-controlled telecommunications equipment supplier Italtel SpA will shed 1,000 jobs this year , as part of its four-year restructuring plan and expects to save $22m in labour costs this year as a result ; Italtel is also planning to lay off a total of 16,500 people temporarily for five weeks at a time this year . |
| 43 | The General Synod of the Church of England votes on the matter next week , but already the Bishop of Chester has taken action to head off a split in his church . |
| 44 | Why did Angelica Kauffman return so often to the image of Penelope , wife of Ulysses mother of Telemachus , who was abandoned by her husband when he went off to fight the Trojan Wars , and had to fend off a pack of vulture-like suitors who wanted to take over Ulysses ' estate , wealth and derelict wife . |