Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was re-seeded but the seed was drowned out last autumn and difficult weather conditions in the spring means that it has to remain fenced off and unusable for this year 's show . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It was re-seeded but the seed was drowned out last autumn and difficult weather conditions in the spring means that it has to remain fenced off and unusable for this year 's show . ’ |
| 3 | Unix System Labs has decided to hold off announcing a Destiny branding programme at Unix Expo ( UX No 401 ) : we have a sneaking suspicion they 're trying to put together a deal with 88open for compatibility test suites . |
| 4 | Everybody says that 's what 's going to happen , but erm when it 's been done in the past I 've not had any figures produced that indicate that the service provision has had to fall off because of increased charges . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm afraid our regular chap has had to cry off . |
| 6 | Nula , 32 , of North London , has had to fight off an attacker at a bus stop and survive a nightmare ride with a sinister mini-cab driver . |
| 7 | Well the light has got to come off and you 've got to drop a perpendicular so that you know , cut the paper straight , it helps if you put it up straight instead of wonky . |
| 8 | Fire has to consume to give off its light . |
| 9 | Unemployment grew rapidly to 1982 and has tended to level off since then . |
| 10 | Since taking over as Brazil 's manager on 6 January , Sebastiano Lazaroni has attempted to pull off a transformation that has hitherto seemed impossible in Brazilian football . |
| 11 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 12 | But , despite such efforts , the technology has refused to take off commercially . |
| 13 | Secondly , a dear friend of mine has gone wandering off with a person I 'm fairly sure is addicted to a very nasty personality altering drug . |
| 14 | Fearing that any investigation into this anti-communist network might be a prelude to his own eviction from the presidential palace , Mr Cossiga has tried to fight off all attempts to question him about Gladio . |
| 15 | To prove she has n't she has started leaving off her trademark scarves to reveal a beautiful , swan-like neck . |
| 16 | Grima says that he is simply grateful that he has started to work off his eight-match suspension . |
| 17 | For example , O supplies a car to P on hire purchase terms and P , before he has finished paying off his instalments , sells the car to a bona fide private purchaser , Q , who is unaware of the hire purchase agreement . |
| 18 | SPAIN 'S King Juan Carlos has vowed to fight off any attempts by the EC to ban bull fighting . |
| 19 | SKY 's live satellite soccer has failed to lift off with viewers according to official figures released yesterday . |
| 20 | The Dowty group has failed to fight off a hostile bid by T-I , one of Britain 's largest engineering firms . |
| 21 | Bobby Fowke has managed to shake off his injury and plays … |
| 22 | An aerospace company will hear tomorrow whether it has managed to fight off a takeover bid . |
| 23 | One of the region 's independent breweries has managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid — at least for the time being . |
| 24 | If you heard that someone had taken an amethyst to bed with them , you 'd probably think that they 'd forgotten to take off their jewellery . |
| 25 | We only caught her because she 'd forgotten to take off one of the tags . ’ |
| 26 | It had been ever since he 'd dropped Hitch off . |
| 27 | I 'd avoided stopping off to see mum and dad . |
| 28 | Instead of having to cancel a trip to the Blue Mountains , she 'd had to put off a trip to the Blue Danube . |
| 29 | Now she was visible again , she 'd had to take off her shoes in order to walk on the glass floor without slipping , and she could n't feel her feet . |
| 30 | He 'd had to break off for lack of an English verb that he remembered as soon as Bacci pronounced it . |