Example sentences of "then [vb base] 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Go to the plant pot and spray it , then jump off the ledge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then turn off the heat and ‘ rest ’ the joint in the oven with the door ajar for 25–30 minutes . |
| 10 | Then turn off the heat and ‘ rest ’ the joint in the oven with the door ajar for 25–30 minutes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Then turn off the power to the circuit concerned so you can safely inspect socket A's wiring . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Rock back into a cat stance and block , then fire off a back fist with your leading hand . |
| 16 | The correct way to shut the machine down is to type EXIT to return to Windows , quit Windows and then switch off the machine . |
| 17 | Remove as much damaged wood as possible , then dry off the remaining timber with a hot air gun |