Example sentences of "have [verb] off [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN Ayrshire schoolboy 's shock at conditions in an East African secondary school has sparked off a remarkable effort to help the pupils . |
| 2 | She sees red , however , when the slogans and other aspects of her designs are copied and bowdlerised ; she has sounded off a great deal about suing the culprits , a litigious reflex often apparent in her career . |
| 3 | While Lady Chatterley outrages viewers on BBC1 , and Carlton Television invest in a major three-part drama called A Woman 's Guide to Adultery ( to be screened in the autumn ) Ray has pulled off a major scoop now . |
| 4 | TOG O' WAR ace Steve Churchill has pulled off the greatest prize — a world championship . |
| 5 | Morland 's has fought off the first attempt by the Suffolk based company Greene King to takeover it and its three hundred pubs … |
| 6 | After he has killed off the whole lot of them in various ways , he shouts in triumph , ‘ Jesus , I got 'em all ! ’ |
| 7 | Because MPs enjoy such low status , because the work is so poorly paid , because the upper classes have largely abandoned ideas of ‘ service ’ , and because the selection process has killed off the old boy network , there is less and less interest in politics in the Conservatives ' traditional reservoir of support . |
| 8 | We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time . |
| 9 | But Pompey have not had to fend off a serious inquiry about him for two years . |
| 10 | Normally his provocative question would have sparked off a fiery response , but now , feeling gloomy and depressed , Luce said nothing . |
| 11 | Would they have switched off the cold fountains in Trafalgar Square ? |
| 12 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |
| 13 | His meeting with Peters also seems to have sparked off the long voyaging section of ‘ Death by Water ’ in the Waste Land manuscripts , which would be united with the fate of the ancient Phoenician sailor , Phlebas , and details of which would find their way into ‘ Marina ’ and ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ . |
| 14 | Not to be confused with Pergolesi 's catalytic opera of the same name ( the one reputed to have sparked off the operatic ‘ Guerre des Bouffons ’ in Paris ) , Paisiello 's La Serva padrona ( ‘ The Servant Mistress ’ ) has enjoyed a less exalted fate . |
| 15 | Barker grew very quickly , and had to work off a tremendous amount of energy every day , and since Danny was much too young to take him out for walks , this duty fell upon Connor . |
| 16 | Credit must be given to the home keeper Alan Godden who had to pull off a few good saves . |
| 17 | Those Right-Ons who had written off the Labour Party for ever now began to chew humble pie , and were drawn to Livingstone 's GLC as though to a magnet . |
| 18 | This squad also exploded a store of mines which the Germans had not laid behind the beach — an extraordinary piece of dilatoriness for them , although they were probably complacent , in part at least , because their propaganda had written off the British . |
| 19 | Indeed , the author once took a phone-in for 100,000 shares in Leading Leisure , which netted him a substantial commission , although he had to fight off an unscrupulous colleague who had tried to seize the telephone receiver . |
| 20 | Almost every woman I 've known had to live off a perpetual menu of rabbit 's food . |
| 21 | They had fought off a spirited £1.1bn bid from the BTR conglomerate six years earlier when chairman Sir Antony Pilkington and his team argued the key lay in dedicated research and investment . |
| 22 | Even after she had switched off the small lamp beside the bed , so that the room was completely dark , it was hard to be sure if she was really seeing something , or if her eyes were just playing tricks . |
| 23 | A voder commentary accompanied the recording , but Rostov had switched off the auditory input to his chair so that he could converse with the Manchu technician who was running the session . |
| 24 | After ten minutes we were hot and had to take off a few layers . |
| 25 | Just as you have written off the 1991 vintage in France , a sample appears on the doorstep to confound you . |
| 26 | The proposals have set off a heated debate within the milk industry , whose outcome is likely to have important ramifications north of the Border , where the Scottish milk boards are facing a similar fate to that of their English and Welsh counterpart . |
| 27 | The Americans have pulled off a technological miracle to stage the US Cup game against Germany in Detroit 's Silverdome . |
| 28 | GARRYOWEN have pulled off a major coup with the appointment of former All Blacks captain Andy Leslie as coach for the next two seasons . |
| 29 | Once the poachers have killed off the big male tuskers , they turn to the younger males for ivory . |