Example sentences of "off [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expenditure is then either written off or transferred to tangible fixed assets . |
| 2 | It is easy enough to see how someone , especially someone who has suffered a childhood of poverty , can be led to a fear of emptiness , of not getting enough to eat , of starvation itself , and so in later life to stave off or compensate for such a fear . |
| 3 | Replacement with a new car without making any deduction for depreciation if your car is written off or stolen within twelve months of purchase as new . |
| 4 | ( b ) the RFL is struck off or suspended in any of his or her home jurisdictions — in this case the Society has a discretion to terminate the suspension , thus re-instating the RFL , on application by the RFL . |
| 5 | The curtilage of a building will include the ground that is used for the comfortable enjoyment of that building even though it has not been marked off or enclosed in any way ( Sinclair-Lockhart 's Trustees v Central Land Board ( 1950 ) 1 P & CR 195 ) . |
| 6 | It is her that energies are restored , sparked off and fed into different aspects of her survival as a woman and as an artist . |
| 7 | They just took off and left for good . |
| 8 | Harry tore the dressing gown off and flung on some clothes . |
| 9 | I better back off and wait for another day . ’ |
| 10 | Rumour in Adelaide suggested he will take a year off and return in 1994 to head a new team run by Honda , which will make its own chassis as well as engines . |
| 11 | " Now as soon as Rabscuttle got inside the King 's palace , he scurried off and went into one of the dark burrows ; and here he hid all day . |
| 12 | It was unlikely therefore that this idea would be dusted off and applied to German city neighbourhoods without considerable modification . |
| 13 | He was booted off and landed on some fencing , causing great damage to his testicular region . |
| 14 | In addition , declaration forms were missing in some cases in the departmental libraries , or older forms had been torn off and replaced by new forms when full rather than being retained , thus losing the evidential value of the forms . |
| 15 | Then I took my bag into a loo and took everything off and changed into clean clothes . |
| 16 | Sam wants the plane and all the coke in it and Dwayne and the rest can fuck off and die for all he cares . |
| 17 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 18 | Now here 's something to argue about this weekend … what would you say is the hardest … or toughest race to win in sport … football 's league title … formula one … the olympic marathon … how about the jockeys championship … they 've been off and running for six months and leading the chase is Oxfordshire ’ s Richard Dunwoody … we 're riding with him for this week 's Friday Feature |
| 19 | And that volcanic streak was responsible for his rash announcement last December to retire after he was sent off and banned for four games at his last French club , Nimes . |
| 20 | The incident was highlighted on Sky TV and spotted by the club 's committee when they watched a video of the clash between John Devereux and Keith England in the same match which resulted in both men being sent off and banned for two games . |
| 21 | This is important because if you do get infected , you can be sure that there are no viruses resident in memory by turning the PC off and rebooting from this disk . |
| 22 | It 's said to last for days even this great high that they get when they jump off and leap off these bridges or something on a bit of elastic . |
| 23 | I use two fingers after a while , then I 'm hard again ; I pull the first condom off and put on another one , then I spit onto my rubber-sheathed prick and , guiding it with my fingers , ease it slowly into her rectum . |