Example sentences of "the [noun] off on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're in charge , ’ I said , and turned the light off on him . |
| 2 | The most informal interview will be one where the interviewer , having once started the interview off on the theme in which he is interested , allows the informant to dictate the subsequent situation . |
| 3 | So the spin off on the electorate is perhaps well , does it really matter ? |
| 4 | She wiped the stiletto off on its fur and slipped it into the sheath in her boot , then sucked the warm , salty blood from the puncture she had made . |
| 5 | If he did n't , some clever lawyer would get the boy off on a technicality . |
| 6 | In desperation , Ari started marking the days off on a chart , just so she could see the rime they had left on the road diminishing . |
| 7 | You can see him pull the veins off on the way , hey ? |
| 8 | He paid the cab off on the east side of Etoile in the towering shadow of the Arc de Triomphe and took the pedestrian subway across to the west . |
| 9 | ‘ The brigade actually sets the fireworks off on the ramparts of the castle , ’ fire safety officer Denis Neads said yesterday . |
| 10 | Affecting boredom , she ticked the points off on her fingers . |
| 11 | He seemed tired and perplexed and , without invitation , began to summarise what had happened so far , ticking the points off on his fingers . |
| 12 | Mandeville leaned against the wall and ticked the points off on his fingers . |
| 13 | First , ’ he ticked the points off on his finger , ‘ Lady Eleanor Belmont was murdered . |
| 14 | Throgmorton glared once more at Millet , composed himself and ticked the points off on his fingers . |
| 15 | I ticked the points off on my fingers . |
| 16 | Benjamin leaned across the table , ticking the points off on his long fingers . |
| 17 | Several hours later Sten found a warden who sailed out to the island and dropped the guys off on the nearest bit of mainland . |
| 18 | Mahoney gets himself murdered and starts the police off on that painstaking system of theirs . |
| 19 | A chap was decorating his lounge , and he , he 'd locked the camera off on himself , but he had no clothes on . |
| 20 | Yes , we have , I mean other types of , of clips that we would n't show for different reasons , for instance we , we got one last week where a chap was decorating his lounge and he 'd locked the camera off on himself , but he had no clothes on , nothing funny happened , he was just decorating with no clothes on . |
| 21 | I phoned her up and she said they 'd started decorating lifting the tiles off on the kitchen wall . |
| 22 | If a Trekkie lost an item of clothing , they just marked the fact off on a sheet of paper . |