Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] off the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip , however , seems to have overplayed his hand , demanding that Henry surrender Pacy-sur-Eure as security while the exchange was being carried out and causing the English King to break off the conference in indignation . |
| 2 | WORKING TOO HARD FOR YOUR SOCIAL LIFE TO GET OFF THE GROUND ? |
| 3 | She discovered she was a split second too late in making a hurried scramble to get off the bed , because , in the next instant , Naylor was there with her , pinning her down with his body . |
| 4 | It was a simple matter to strip off the layers of spoil from the stages in the construction . |
| 5 | It would be a simple matter to saw off the shafts of the clubs and embed the heads in a dummy top . |
| 6 | After that , it 's a simple matter to send off the money order , together with the order form , and then await the return of the goodies . |
| 7 | There was always the real ale to stave off the effects of ageing for a while . |
| 8 | Although the loss would not have affected the landing , doubts about the Force 's navigation caused the senior naval officer to call off the raid . |
| 9 | It was the perfect way to round off the season , although Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna might not have agreed after crashing out while disputing the lead . |
| 10 | She had a sudden fearful vision of everyone in the world , the untold billions , including Gorbachev and Reagan , engaged in desperate meaningless activity to stave off the horror of death in life , the accident of life . |
| 11 | This was also seen by the coronameter , which registers the faint visible light scattered from coronal electrons , using an occulting disk to blank off the string visible emission from the surface of the Sun . |
| 12 | The wearing of breathing apparatus , although necessary , was known to be risky ; the trapped men were not accustomed to the equipment and anyone who has used it knows how alarming and claustrophobic the experience can be ; the effect can be a compelling desire to rip off the apparatus and if one of the trapped miners was to do so while passing through the gas in Bank mine , death would be almost instantaneous . |
| 13 | Britain 's best hope is David Holding , the third fastest entrant who , at 20 , became the youngest winner of the race in 1989 when he won a tight finish to beat off the challenge from the experienced pair of Canadian Ted Vince and Chris Hallam of Wales . |
| 14 | A visit to Castle Drachenfels could be the ideal way to top off the adventurers ' experiences in Hanike 's house ! |
| 15 | It 's unique ability to lift off the ground or land like a helicopter has thrilled crowds all over the World . |
| 16 | Using the numerous hollows and small rises unnoticed to untrained soldiers on a bare hillside , Turton and his men once lay hidden in this deadground while the Japanese moving to encircle them passed by , leaving the Australian patrol to come off the hill at nightfall . |
| 17 | The Friar broke off a young oak bough and waved it about his sweating forehead to keep off the flies that followed him in wavering clouds , a floating band of skirmishers that his ceaseless counter-attacks could not drive away . |
| 18 | She prepared for bed in haste , then got into bed without turning off the bedside lamp , willing the friendly glow to hold off the dreams which came with the night . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's taken a long time to throw off the illness and is still not fully fit , ’ said Sheppard 's Milngavie and Bearsden coach , Alex McNeil . |
| 20 | This is because such schemes are taking a long time to get off the ground and because employers generally recruit from non-local networks ( see also Ladbury and Mira-Smith in this volume ) . |
| 21 | They are grazing carnivores using a rasp-like tongue to scrape off the flesh of the unfortunate prey . |
| 22 | Even Wordsworth 's residence in the Lake District , a non-profit-making area compared to , say , Manchester , and his initial attempt to live off the profession of poetry , represent a challenge to the age . |
| 23 | ‘ I have a very important campaign to get off the ground . ’ |
| 24 | Apart from the metrical need to round off the stanza , there is no contextual requirement for Wilekin to suggest Dame Sirith buy animals with the money . |
| 25 | Mohammed Azharuddin was slightly hurt when struck on the elbow by a stone while fielding , prompting the visiting team to run off the field through a hail of rocks and oranges . |
| 26 | Diplomatic tension between the two countries grew steadily during October in the wake of threats by the Turkish government to cut off the flow of the Euphrates river unless Syria ceased its tacit support for the KWP , which was in direct contravention of the Turkish-Syrian agreement of 1987 . |
| 27 | The Senator also proposed an interim bureaucratic manoeuvre to head off the seminar : ‘ I genuinely fear that if the seminar is held the VEC will put itself at risk because you are giving a platform to people who are not sincere . |
| 28 | What it represents I would suggest , is the desperate attempt to trim off the margin to find every single last way in which we can follow the government diktat whilst preserving our full services . |
| 29 | The only team to hold off the accounts onslaught seems to be the well-respected Streatham team who drubbed them 5:1 before Christmas , though accounts admittedly had an under par team . |
| 30 | But that did n't stop Bush campaigning vigorously in six battleground states yesterday in a last-ditch effort to throw off the veil of defeat which looms over him — and warning Clinton to put his planned victory parade on hold . |