Example sentences of "[vb infin] off [pos pn] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best way to grow these is to cut back hard each spring , to ensure a mass of young wands that will show off their winter bark . |
| 2 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG will show off its Unix SVR4-based DCE reference port this week at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge ‘ 93 meet in Boston . |
| 3 | Finally , you can show off your prefect physique playing beach volleyball . |
| 4 | Where before , half the amusement of seeing the New FADS play was seeing whether the five unlikely groovers could carry off their groove thing without sounding like A Certain Ratio after one too many spliffs , now there is a confidence , and with it comes a hint of threat . |
| 5 | He 'd then take off his wrist watch and put it where he could see it as he talked . |
| 6 | For example , a company may pay off its bank overdraft ahead of its other liabilities because the directors have given personal guarantees to the bank . |
| 7 | In contrast , Stephen Timewell , mayor of Taunton in 1682 – 3 , a man who prided himself as having " tamed these stubborn Fanatics " during his term in office , nevertheless found that he too had to " leave off my shop trade , for ever since I have done these things not one of a hundred comes near me to buy or sell and they make it their business to persuade people not to come near me " . |
| 8 | A prostitute caught Graham 's eye but he shook his head before she could get off her bar stool . |
| 9 | For the first two days of the four-day event each professional would be partnered by an amateur , who would play off his club handicap . |
| 10 | Assuming no overall change in the CAA 's activities , no cross-subsidy , and a policy of full cost recovery of actual work done , we estimate that the additional cost to our sector of the industry would mean an increase in all AOC charges and C o A charges of more than 1,000 per cent — clearly a preposterous situation which would effectively kill off our AOC sector even if the increase was spread over a number of years , and would thus be self-defeating since it would leave the airlines to pay more of the CAA 's overheads than they do now . |