Example sentences of "off [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Markets shrug off rise in inflation |
| 2 | International : Army tries to fend off blame for shelling |
| 3 | What the apparatus ‘ sees ’ is the decay of the Z o into an electron and a positron ( an antielectron ) flying off back to back from the point of the collision . |
| 4 | Antibodies beat off rejection of blood cells |
| 5 | He watched them go off hand in hand , and then he wandered away across the quarry , heading for the old manager 's office . |
| 6 | CUT SHORT is a book that could put you off hospital for life . |
| 7 | An official decision by the authorities to switch off electricity to student dormitories at 11 p.m. led to unrest on campus . |
| 8 | Detaching his fifty Dalwolsey men to add to Moray 's two hundred , he said farewell to the Regent , Douglas and the others , and set off north by east , up Liddesdale . |
| 9 | To this the tiger agreed , and having tied their tails together in a reef knot , the pair set off arm in arm . |