Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to strip off the tape , but it was too tough and his fingers were numb and he could n't find where it began . |
| 2 | It tried to jump off the table and had to be held firmly so that Sophie could freeze the surrounding area before lancing it . |
| 3 | She tried to tear off the balaclava , but it was tied around the neck , so in her shame and fear she attempted to shield her body with her handcuffed arms . |
| 4 | When she hastily drew away and tried to wriggle off the bed he caught her wrist and pulled her back . |
| 5 | Bananas and apples helped to stave off the effect of raging thirst … |
| 6 | She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh . |
| 7 | An elderly man , who was walking his pet , collapsed when he tried to beat off the Rottweiler . |
| 8 | With her tongue she tried to wash off the blood that covered him . |
| 9 | They 'd set his hand and cast it , and then after a second set of plates a week later they 'd broken off the cast and operated . |
| 10 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
| 11 | They had to stop the machines because everybody was laughing see with Tara on the floor so Ann did n't even know she 'd fallen off the chair . |
| 12 | Witness Gordon Ansty , 27 , said : ‘ Something seemed to fall off the cockpit . ’ |
| 13 | The wind came whipping off the moor and bent the cypresses as if they were blades of grass . |
| 14 | Suddenly one name seemed to leap off the page from among the hundreds of unknowns — it was Dana 's , and it was followed by his address and telephone number . |
| 15 | The photograph seemed to leap off the page to hit her . |
| 16 | The entry seemed to jump off the page , twisting her stomach painfully . |
| 17 | The shock was so great that it brought tears to his eyes , and when he 'd turned off the tap and dried his hand , the tears did n't stop . |
| 18 | She was hungry and sorry she 'd turned off the radio . |
| 19 | His first day in 1924 watching his county , Sussex , convinced him that there is no greater moment than a big hit : ‘ As I walked into the ground a ball came bouncing off the Town Hall roof and nearly hit me on the head . |
| 20 | She 'd ringed off the date on the calendar in the kitchen . |
| 21 | In that time they 'd sealed off the room and the hotel . |
| 22 | Amanda had started massaging his shoulders ; he 'd closed his eyes and imagined a hot sun and someone rubbing oil on his back , and then she 'd slipped off the bed and had gone to have a bath with the other complimentary packet of foam . |
| 23 | A gaunt building , Roscommon 's former prison formed a wall that seemed to seal off the end of the town . |
| 24 | I laughed , and she 'd gone off the line before I could ask her about her health . |
| 25 | Dublin 's toe-job on the end of Brian McClair 's downward header lifted United off the bottom of the Premier League and gave Fergie his first reason to smile this season . |
| 26 | The trouble was that the paper never seemed to get off the ground , which was typical of the Big Flame and ‘ Beyond the Fragments ’ approach . |
| 27 | The breezes seemed to skim off the water like stones . |
| 28 | Some he 'd learnt off the Frenchman — whose name is such a household name it escapes me — Marcel Marceau — and Jack Birkett ( now known as The Great Orlando ) was Harlequin , who could also be Columbine . |
| 29 | Owen waved Cynan furiously onward , and turned to stand off the assault . |
| 30 | It made at least one of their co-defendants uncomfortable and risked ticking off the judge by appearing to play fast and loose with the legal system . |