Example sentences of "then [verb] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His grandfather had explained that the only true way to bake bread was to burn it black and then rasp off the burnt extremities with a coarse file . |
| 2 | The aim of the game is to gas as many Jews as possible and then sell off the residual gold teeth . |
| 3 | Then skim off the fat , pour the juices back into the roasting tin and bubble them up . |
| 4 | That was his Sunday ritual : over to Harry 's for cards as soon as lunch was eaten , and back at exactly a quarter after six , to read the Sunday papers and then sleep off the drink . |
| 5 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 6 | Perhaps the Minister could clarify the impression given by the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) , who believes that it is all right to buy from the public purse something for £2 million and then to sell off a fraction of it for £4 1 million a fortnight later as long as the proceeds of the sale go to buses . |
| 7 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 8 | To measure a ship 's speed , medieval sailors used to throw a log on a length of knotted rope over the side and then count off the knots . |
| 9 | He held her there for two minutes , then paid off a further two degrees , again without adjusting the sails . |
| 10 | Go to the plant pot and spray it , then jump off the ledge . |
| 11 | Norman Crawford then pulled off a master stroke , introducing McConnell , and he set up Mark Burns for a short corner strike in the 46th minute before adding two goals himself in the space of five minutes to leave Holywood 4–2 ahead . |
| 12 | He drove a few miles out of the village and then pulled off the road to wait for dusk . |
| 13 | The Woman gave him one look and then switched off the light and Doyle settled himself in the chair and sat silently in the shadows . |
| 14 | She turned the heavy , white porcelain door knob and pushed gently , then switched off the torch in case she was seen by someone at the back of the house , and entered the bedroom . |
| 15 | What you have to do in this case is to strip off the paint from the binding edge , then plane off a little wood before repainting — including the vulnerable top and bottom edges of the window . |
| 16 | Then turn off the heat and ‘ rest ’ the joint in the oven with the door ajar for 25–30 minutes . |
| 17 | Then turn off the heat and ‘ rest ’ the joint in the oven with the door ajar for 25–30 minutes . |
| 18 | Then turn off the stop tap on the supply to the feed-and-expansion tank , attach a hose to the lowest draincock on the system , and lead it to a gully or drain outside . |
| 19 | Then turn off the water supply for the feed-and-expansion tank , drain the system , and disconnect and remove the radiator and its brackets as described earlier ( see REPLACING A RADIATOR ) . |
| 20 | Then turn off the power to the circuit concerned so you can safely inspect socket A's wiring . |
| 21 | With the new fitting connected up and mounted , run the rest of the wiring along your selected route to the point at which it will be connected to an existing circuit , then turn off the power and make the final connections . |
| 22 | Rock back into a cat stance and block , then fire off a back fist with your leading hand . |
| 23 | The correct way to shut the machine down is to type EXIT to return to Windows , quit Windows and then switch off the machine . |
| 24 | The borrower gets the amount of this loan , minus the unpaid balance of the original one , as cash in hand , and then pays off the full number of instalments needed to pay off the full sum . |
| 25 | ‘ Wait until you see who 's here , ’ she 'd whispered excitedly , then reeled off a dizzying list of names that had drawn oohs and aahs . |
| 26 | Remove as much damaged wood as possible , then dry off the remaining timber with a hot air gun |
| 27 | He glanced at me , then tore off a tiny piece very quickly , and with a rapid ‘ Goodbye ! ’ rushed out of the cottage . |