Example sentences of "[verb] off part " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writer/director Raimi continues that gruesome trend here , with Bruce Campbell slicing off part of his right arm with a chainsaw in the opening moments as he is attacked by a force of darkness . |
| 2 | Cuts into the cylinder reveal the structure by slicing off part of the engulfing glass and steel . |
| 3 | Knock off part of them , they 're set apart are n't they ? |
| 4 | Three of these had let off part of their land , and five others had rented some themselves . |
| 5 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 6 | The travellers were not told why the military had cordoned off part of Salisbury Plain and were arresting anyone who strayed into the exclusion zone . |
| 7 | JIM BAKKER , the fallen televangelist , was convicted yesterday of swindling followers of his Praise The Lord ministry out of more than $150m ( £90m ) and syphoning off part of the money to fund his extravagant lifestyle . |
| 8 | And they er adopted a scheme last year when they cut off part of the high street from traffic . |
| 9 | As the animal grew it secreted a wall ( septum ) between the body chamber and the chamber immediately behind — walled off part of its home as it were . |
| 10 | Attention focused on the bond market after the Government raised Pounds 1.3bn by selling off part of its debt in BT and the privatised utilities . |
| 11 | You could partition off part of the tank for the other fish but this would detract from the overall appearance and may not necessarily work . |
| 12 | Alternatively , you could partition off part of a large bedroom to create a small en suite bathroom or shower room . |
| 13 | It still maintains the main architectural design of the original , although there have been some alterations — for example , cutting off part of the north bulwark and the covering of the Manueline towers . |
| 14 | If an owner dwelt in the township where his land was situated the logical inference is that he occupied it himself , although there was nothing to prevent him letting off part or all of it : the Langley Marish man Richard Collis features as ‘ tenaunt to ye Queene , in landes the yerely rente , vs ’ . |
| 15 | Mother licked cream from the ice-cave interior of the meringue , then broke off part of the superstructure with her fingers and popped it into her mouth . |
| 16 | However , it is the first time that ICL has split off part of its business to the extent of actually forming a new subsidiary . |
| 17 | Seeking to print the problem of a correspondent whose small son had , " taken a little girl behind the settee and pulled her knickers down " , she found her sub-editor had deleted the latter part of the quoted sentence and substituted , " taken off part of her underclothes " . |