Example sentences of "[v-ing] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 2 | Midst a lot of no-balls , which helped no end , they picked their way though the furious gunfire , finding the odd boundary , encouraging each other , and finally seeing off the follow-on a ball before tea . |
| 3 | Jockey Ron Treloggen 's only problem was seeing off the unwelcome attentions of a loose horse , Forest Ranger , who stuck to him like glue all the way from Becher 's Brook to the winning line . |
| 4 | The concern of the authorities is that a dominant firm will price aggressively in those markets where it faces actual or potential competition with the intention of seeing off the competition . |
| 5 | As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’ |
| 6 | After the interval the all-female Mix-ups team moved into top gear seeing off the challenges of Martin 's Babes and Coshquin Exiles . |
| 7 | And his question , making Anna laugh , drawing off the poison , sealed the success of his courtship of her . |
| 8 | A narrow lane branching off the village street led to it . |
| 9 | The northern fork , branching off the Royal Road , runs along the east front of the Bull 's Head Sanctuary . |
| 10 | In 1939 , when the new double tubes were constructed , branching off the Bakerloo system , Ernest spent much time away from the school watching the digging of the new Metropolitan Lines under buildings at Finchley Road . |
| 11 | In a series of experiments in which people were asked to describe their flats , Linde and Labov ( 1975 ) found that almost all subjects followed the order of describing the entrance , and then rooms branching off the entrance , returning to the hallway when they came to a dead end . |
| 12 | In April the protective mound of soil safeguarding the grafting wound is ploughed back , burying the manure applied in the winter and levelling off the ground between the rows of vines . |
| 13 | Starting with an end between stem and stake , wrap the rose stem twice , snipping off the excess at the same point opposite the stake . |
| 14 | For some icing work , it is possible to make a small disposable bag out of a cone of non-stick paper , snipping off the very tip for a tiny nozzle ( see page 22 for details ) . |
| 15 | Frankly , the only people I can think of who need to go as low as 850 calories a day in order to achieve a pacey weight loss on the F-Plan are small , rather sedentary women , only a few pounds overweight , and those struggling off the last few pounds of excess weight after a prolonged dieting campaign . |
| 16 | And after the game , struggling off the pitch , Wilson replied to glowing praise with a modest quip . |
| 17 | Correct me if I 'm wrong , but I never saw the likes of ‘ Doyler ’ sneaking off the pitch for a quickie , unlike , say , Jimbo Morrison or the boys in Led Zep who considered such interludes to be an amusing challenge to their versatility as artistes . |
| 18 | However I notice that Wyre Borough Council workmen are now fencing off the area immediately around the swings etc . |
| 19 | Below him , Fleury raced along outside the churchyard wall under the bayonets of the galloping sepoys , touching off the trains to the fougasses . |
| 20 | Until 1986 , the steeply graded banks of one river in arable country were regularly sprayed with the approved chemical 2-4-D amine , in order to reduce the nettles , which were less good at holding the banks than slow-growing grasses , but for which perfect conditions had been established by abundant nitrogen leaching off the fields . |
| 21 | Both Mac and Morrissey were well known for slagging off the entire rock world outside their own small circles . |
| 22 | I could , I could really throw the dirt at them by saying that I 'll , you know , if there is a conspiracy there 's , a person here who 's been involved in a very iffy part of the budget , who all of a sudden after ten years of slagging off the town clerk , all of a sudden he 's totally on the town clerk 's side , together with Councillor . |
| 23 | We 've got a few er right conversations with Barry as well , slagging off the management so er we 're gon na use that for |
| 24 | but what I 'm saying is , awareness now , I 'm just slagging off the awareness . |
| 25 | Yeah I 'm like that but we had a erm conifer type tree it was only so big but and then I and when we we was unloading off the van , this come off and I dug a hole and stuck it in the garden , in the front garden just by the pathways right that 's that but I was washing the car one day , a nice hot day got my shirt off when I come in course I 'd brushed past it I 'd got patterns of the leaves on my on my back . |
| 26 | The sun was reflecting off the window . |
| 27 | She lifted her glass , the light striking the ring , reflecting off the diamond . |
| 28 | Stepping off the concrete path onto gravel was a new sensation and he felt himself slide and stumble . |
| 29 | For this writer it began when , shortly after stepping off the plane in Johannesburg , it became apparent that a few stitches sustained by the All Black winger Terry Wright in a training accident was deemed as worthy a front page news story as the continuous blood-letting in the Natal townships between rival ANC and Inkatha factions . |
| 30 | She had almost given up hope when she saw Meredith arm in arm with Grace and Bunny stepping off the kerb outside the Women 's Hospital . |