Example sentences of "[v-ing] 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 ’ .
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