Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the event resumed in September 1989 it was expected to finish off the closing submissions which had already started and then gently fade away into history . |
| 2 | First thing next morning I was going to fire off a letter , I thought , when I heard something . |
| 3 | Now he was insisting that she should give him the dress she was wearing to pay off the debt . |
| 4 | The Star takes a similar line : Smith ‘ tore up the party 's election manifesto ’ , but ‘ he was set to touch off a left-wing backlash by hijacking Tory policies . ’ |
| 5 | The UN was forced to call off an attempt to evacuate Muslims from Srebrenica by helicopter on Wednesday after Serb artillery shelled the landing zone . |
| 6 | IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves . |
| 7 | Walsh kept him company for 45 minutes for 27 runs , Patterson for an hour for a partnership of 62 until the second new ball was required to finish off the number eleven . |