Example sentences of "then [verb] off [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His grandfather had explained that the only true way to bake bread was to burn it black and then rasp off the burnt extremities with a coarse file . |
| 2 | The aim of the game is to gas as many Jews as possible and then sell off the residual gold teeth . |
| 3 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 4 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 5 | He held her there for two minutes , then paid off a further two degrees , again without adjusting the sails . |
| 6 | What you have to do in this case is to strip off the paint from the binding edge , then plane off a little wood before repainting — including the vulnerable top and bottom edges of the window . |
| 7 | The borrower gets the amount of this loan , minus the unpaid balance of the original one , as cash in hand , and then pays off the full number of instalments needed to pay off the full sum . |
| 8 | ‘ Wait until you see who 's here , ’ she 'd whispered excitedly , then reeled off a dizzying list of names that had drawn oohs and aahs . |
| 9 | Remove as much damaged wood as possible , then dry off the remaining timber with a hot air gun |
| 10 | He glanced at me , then tore off a tiny piece very quickly , and with a rapid ‘ Goodbye ! ’ rushed out of the cottage . |