Example sentences of "be [verb] off [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two creditors , the consultant engineers on the project and the architects involved , have applied for a court order that the convent should be sold off to meet the debts . |
| 2 | Two creditors , the consultant engineers on the project and the architects involved , have applied for a court order that the convent should be sold off to meet the debts . |
| 3 | The rubbish stuck to the bottom of the wax , and could easily be scraped off to leave the scented fawny cake clean and pure . |
| 4 | Often , the end of their beaks may be cut off to stop the hens pecking each other out of sheer boredom and neurosis . |
| 5 | During excitation , samples are heated and begin to outgas , producing more ions and concomitantly increasingly the electron beam current , which if unchecked will reach a preset level within the power unit and cause the high tension to be switched off to protect the gun . |
| 6 | In previous years the competition cakes had been auctioned off to benefit the Belltower Restoration Fund — and that had been the intention this year , too — but there would be no bidders , now . |
| 7 | The lights were turned off to keep the mosquitos away . |
| 8 | ‘ But why , Karim , especially as you pretended to me you were going off to take the damn exams . |
| 9 | Ukrainian sources claimed that ninety-two wagons of grain were collected from starving Ukrainian gubernii , of which thirty-six were sent off to feed the hungry in the Volga-Ural area . |
| 10 | If any pieces of gold leaf have been chipped off to reveal the white base , there are various shades of gilt waxes which can be rubbed on with a soft cloth and then buffed up to a fine lustre . |