Example sentences of "able [to-vb] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will not , though , be able to work off the remaining seven games until he joins a new club . |
| 2 | What he meant was they might be able to come off the building sites , and fall into a featherbed job , one in which they could wear nice suits and drive fancy cars , in return for looking after one very rich old man 's ‘ interests ’ . |
| 3 | Shares in Thames slipped on fears that the company may not be able to shake off the jinx which has dogged so many American acquisitions by British foragers . |
| 4 | He reasoned that , if he could establish a new , older identity with them , he would be able to shake off the persona of faded juvenile . |
| 5 | They will be able to set off the tax credit against part of this liability . |
| 6 | Just as he had the ability to compartmentalize his life , so he also seemed able to slough off the weight of the past and begin again . |
| 7 | The book 's central part , represented by " Socrates and Greek Tragedy " , had already been well worked and , apart from some reordering , was left virtually as it was ; the rest required more attention , but on 12 December he was able to send off the final portions of the manuscript , including a new , short , preface to Wagner . " |
| 8 | Without our help they might not have been able to fight off the Germans as they did . |
| 9 | If only he 'd been able to finish off the plastic swan and the weeping-kid picture there 'd have been some hope for the flat . |
| 10 | Now that I have time again I shall also be able to finish off the other articles that were put on one side during the museum work . |
| 11 | Though his downy feathers were beginning to strengthen , he felt weak and vulnerable , for he never seemed to get enough food , or be able to beat off the brutal and painful pecks of his sibling from whom , by some ancient lore of eagles , his parents did not protect him . |
| 12 | The Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter . |
| 13 | Commenting on its reduced second quarter loss ( figures , page seven ) , Data General Corp said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future ; the Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter . |
| 14 | And while Jo 's able to shrug off the speculation , she can understand why Craig , who 's just as down-to-earth , might shun the limelight . |
| 15 | The purchase and sale of the land was carried out at fixed 1945 prices at a time of rampant inflation , which meant that landlords were virtually expropriated and farmers were able to pay off the purchase price and own their land outright in a year or two . |
| 16 | If you can find out when they feed you will be able to take off the cover at that time and watch them feeding . |
| 17 | If one of these have become bent , the linker can not work properly and will not be able to link off the stitch close to it , hence it drops . |
| 18 | Yet being able to step off the treadmill and stop judging yourself for a while is the only way to begin to take stock and to start to unwind from the stress spiral . |