Example sentences of "off [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , how many times have you seen your ball deviate off course at the last moment due to someone not repairing their pitch mark ? |
| 2 | It is not very clever to spray and fight off enemies from the front door , while letting them take up residence outside a wide open back door . |
| 3 | The Special Fund shall be empowered to raise loans : ( i ) to pay off debts of the Special Fund , ( ii ) to cover due interest and loan procurement costs , ( iii ) to purchase debt titles of the Special Fund for purposes of market cultivation . |
| 4 | Either he had perfected the performance over the years to ward off sympathy from the able-bodied , or he was hiding something far worse than a self-destructive youth . |
| 5 | Queen Victoria , whom she made perpetual coarse jokes about in a way that struck people as uncalled for , had put her off marriage in the same way that she had put her off Scotland . |
| 6 | Skip the chat if you prefer to bomb on catamarans , zoom in Lasers , potter on Toppers or totter off Windsurfers in the local area . |
| 7 | Authors at the conference , in social and business sessions include Shirley Hughes and Aidan Chambers , who round off conference at the Random House Breakfast on Wednesday , Anthony Sampson , Terence Blacker and Terry Pratchett , the guest of honour at the annual dinner dance . |
| 8 | Pulling off her bright headscarf , tossing off her jacket , she threw off apologies at the same time . |
| 9 | The draft document on declaring the party independent says this would not mean breaking off relations with the Soviet party , but would establish a new relationship of partnership instead of subordin-ation . |
| 10 | Before his birthday the trustees paid off all of his considerable personal debts , so that he could start afresh , but the Earl was not impressed by their suggestions that thrift was required and as soon as he took control he began to sell off parcels of the ancient family lands , all to finance his expensive tastes . |
| 11 | Daak could make deep incisions in places round the edge , but he did n't have enough leverage to cut off slices of the strange metal . |
| 12 | In return the National Sports Congress , which had organized a campaign against the tour , agreed to call off demonstrations at the remaining four games . |
| 13 | The right solution is to auction off slots to the highest bidder . |
| 14 | E/A turned and made off East at the same time as we sighted him . |
| 15 | She found herself next to Petion , who was trying to pick off men on the nearest freighter . |
| 16 | Like Camdessus , Conable urged creditor nations to write off debt to the poorest nations [ see also p. 37731 for LDC conference in Paris ] and claimed that a 10 per cent cut in military spending by members of NATO would free enough resources to double development assistance . |
| 17 | Eubank looked as though he was going to finish off Thornton in the ninth round — and should have done so in the tenth . |
| 18 | The exercise shaved off $4bn from the 1990 target , but it raised the 1989 deficit by an equal amount . |
| 19 | Tory of course will have to fend off inquiries about the continued viability of the operating system and the re-prioritisation going on inside OSF . |
| 20 | It also asks customers to refrain from talking to the press about Pentium-based machines or product prices until May 20 and warns that it might cut off supplies of the new chip to transgressors . |