Example sentences of "throw off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Natural History of Nematodes it is unfortunate that George Poinar Jr does not throw off the armour of nomenclature which prevents the general student from getting to grips with these creatures . |
| 2 | Marx started out as a Young Hegelian in the early 1840s and never threw off the underlying presuppositions of Hegelian rationalism . |
| 3 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 4 | This came when the satellite threw off the cover that had protected the sensitive detectors during the launch and afterwards , while the team at the operations centre at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory checked that the telescope was pointing correctly . |
| 5 | Thomas threw off the question lightly . |
| 6 | He threw off the pau and stood there over her , naked , seeing how eagerly she watched him now . |
| 7 | The Dalriadic Scots and the Britons , probably of Strathclyde , whom Ecgfrith had almost certainly driven into alliance with the Picts in 685 through his claims to supremacy over them ( see above , p. 100 ) , regained their independence , and the Picts threw off the overlordship of the northern Anglian king and recaptured territory formerly held by the Angles ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 8 | In doing this , Carvajal and his colleagues finally threw off the disguise of Roman Catholicism , which by then must have worn very thin . |
| 9 | Giving herself a mental shake , she threw off the thoughts . |
| 10 | Without thought , Theda threw off the covers and swung her feet to the floor . |
| 11 | Then , almost overnight it seemed , Oxfordshire suddenly threw off the mantle of winter . |
| 12 | Often needed in the first stage of high grade inflammations , fevers and congestions with great anxiety , heat and restlessness ; tosses about , throws off the covers . |
| 13 | The earth throws off the heat it can not accommodate . |
| 14 | ‘ Never is here , Den , ’ says George , then he throws off the lid of the Monster 's bin and heaves it up on his shoulder . |
| 15 | In the 1989 party conference , Ken Livingstone was thrown off the NEC . |
| 16 | The minorities have thrown off the Pashtun yoke , largely thanks to the military prowess of Commander Ahmed Shah Massoud , a Tajik from the Jamiat-e-Islami ( Islamic Society ) opposition group . |
| 17 | Dallas is dull by comparison , at last Scottish football has thrown off the mantle of miserable weather and abortive pies , the glamorous dynasty of soap-opera management had arrived . |
| 18 | Strangely enough , we actually opened for Argent back in 1974 on one of our first big tours in America , and were promptly thrown off the tour for behaving like rude Americans … which all Americans are anyway . |
| 19 | Long after America had thrown off the yoke of colonial rule , Americans still held such a poor opinion of the perfidious English that such a pool shot was also described as Putting on the English . |
| 20 | It was the list of undesirable aliens who were banned from entering the Bahamas , and if my name was put on that Stop List , and if I was then thrown off the islands , I would probably never see my boat again . |
| 21 | ‘ Report him , and you 'll be thrown off the islands before the week 's end ! |
| 22 | Earlier that night he and a friend of Mr Patterson were thrown off the premises for fighting because Sharpe allegedly spilt beer over the other man 's girlfriend . |
| 23 | He studied at the University of Oxford at a time when Colet had thrown off the old method of scholastic teaching , which consisted of repeating the comments of previous interpreters of the Bible , and instead , in his lectures on St Paul 's Epistles , was explaining their historic background and expounding their spiritual truths . |
| 24 | Dennis Skinner , savage critic of Labour leaders , standard bearer of the Left , the old darling of the constituency parties , was thrown off the National Executive . |
| 25 | And at last they appear to have thrown off the similarities with Daisy Chainsaw ( which stemmed from their singers being sisters ) to adopt a Hazel O'Connor/Sugarcubes approach . |
| 26 | Today we went to a fair in the morning and Loz from Kingmaker won a goldfish in a plastic bag and Bobby Gillespie got thrown off the bumper cars for saying he was Marc Bolan in a Mini and Polly Harvey was a tree . |
| 27 | I had been thrown off the cricket team at school for making daisy chains on the boundary . |
| 28 | The universe which men will create for themselves , after they have thrown off the tyranny of Phil Schaffer , Roy Chase , himself , and the rest of them , will be a very different sort of place . |
| 29 | Fishing gear was thrown off the deck and two of the crew were pitched violently backwards into the hold . |
| 30 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |