Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes we made shelters with leaves and branches to keep off the rain . |
| 2 | It was only after the collapse of peace in Europe that radicals could begin to envisage ‘ such a weakening of all the Great Powers of Europe as shall enable the more backward nations to throw off the yoke fastened on them by the Cabinets and financiers of ‘ civilised ’ States . ’ |
| 3 | THE GOVERNMENT faces controversy over plans to sell off the spectrum of radio frequencies . |
| 4 | He gained a lot of brownie points , for example , when the company announced its record interim losses of £45.1m and then revealed plans to sell off the majority of is leisure division . |
| 5 | Fun , magic , music and mime will give you a breather before digging out your dancing shoes to round off the evening with a turn on the nightclub floor ! |
| 6 | When driving at speed , the engineers noted that headwinds and crosswinds caused the blades to lift off the windscreen . |
| 7 | Allow twelve hours to sleep off the kill , and that left thirty to study the area and make certain there were no surprises . |
| 8 | I bought the sandwich and carefully peeled away the Cellophane , but just as I lifted it to my mouth the train lurched violently over a siding , making the bottles clatter in the drinks trolley and causing all the meatballs to jump off the bun , like sailors abandoning a burning ship . |
| 9 | He says they have a few pounds to trim off the engine but that will be achieved by Imola . |
| 10 | There are no votes in plans to pension off the Queen , and the House of Windsor has achieved a stability which would have surprised some previous royal households . |
| 11 | They wore large cotton hats to keep off the sun , and gloves to protect their hands from the corn . |
| 12 | They are also working on ways to turn off the gas supply in men who produce too much of it and , as a result , suffer from priapism — painful and embarrassing erections in the absence of sexual desire . |
| 13 | It is seen at Harman 's Cross waiting for passengers to arrive off the train to take them on to Corfe Castle . |
| 14 | The president , knowing that this foretold more terrible violence , asked the chiefs to call off the protest , thereby depriving his army of a further excuse for slaughter . |
| 15 | ‘ What ? ’ cried the great dragon , his deep brass-gonged voice ringing out and causing several of the gems to tinkle off the jade pagoda . |
| 16 | The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work . |
| 17 | The ability of donors to turn off the tap is often cherished as a means of enforcing economic discipline , or more specifically the sets of policies now associated with structural adjustment . |
| 18 | Carol 's uses , using sponges to take off the gel . |
| 19 | And with Speak overcoming a nervous start -he took 33 minutes to get off the mark to hit a string of boundaries , the pair put on 141 in less than 30 overs . |
| 20 | It can take 10 minutes to get off the train . ’ |
| 21 | His acute political and personal crisis was increased by a direct attack from Michael Heseltine , who said the Chancellor 's attempts to shrug off the trade deficit smacked of ‘ socialist naivety ’ . |
| 22 | The Individual Programme Plans of Elizabeth and Helen , which took two attempts to get off the ground because of staff changes and inadequate training , have been virtually suspended — even before the first reviews — because of the latest staffing upheaval . |
| 23 | Children will have great fun choosing which sweets to pick off the house first . |
| 24 | She also ordered police to cordon off the area and to begin arresting those responsible for the disturbances . |
| 25 | Old couplings usually stick tight , and the easiest way to remove them is to take them apart , using one or two small screwdrivers to prise off the end cover ring , which releases the pressure , and then remove the barrel , synthetic seal and cover ring . |
| 26 | Reports suggested that the demonstration , which had led police to seal off the city centre , had followed a series of unsanctioned rallies in Frunze against high local unemployment . |
| 27 | It was the punters who remained in the stand that ‘ persuaded ’ the invaders to get off the field , by the simple expedient of throwing bottles and pies at them , beer-cans not yet having been invented . |
| 28 | These enabled his pupils to get off the ground and many began imitating the set of motifs he introduced into his illustrations . |
| 29 | ‘ The ASB recently tabled proposals to close off the acquisition accounting loopholes and this heightens the need to tighten up merger accounting rules now , ’ said . |
| 30 | The robbers would have needed at least 16 large suitcases to carry off the cash , said bank spokesman , Jean-Claude Bach . |