Example sentences of "[vb -s] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say , ‘ A Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta … ’ and with that he drops his book and stomps off the tee . |
| 2 | This action brings pin 3 of IC2 down to near zero and shuts off the drive to the switching transistor TR1 . |
| 3 | A special toughened , smoked glass lid with a ‘ Shut-Off Valve ’ that immediately shuts off the gas when the lid is closed . |
| 4 | Sliding the on/off plate back to on triggers the heating element and also shuts off the water inlet , preventing drips . |
| 5 | A wall — also red-ochre — shuts off the view , and is topped only by a violet and yellow-ochre hill . |
| 6 | That stone curtain will not descend which now shuts off the inmates of prison from the free world outside . |
| 7 | In addition , a cylinder thermostat can be strapped to the cylinder either to turn the boiler off or to operate a valve which shuts off the flow from the boiler to the cylinder when the stored water is hot enough . |
| 8 | Well this this of course erm shuts off the freezer that thing . |
| 9 | Rallying : Auriol flies off the track in Tuscany |
| 10 | Provided he acts with good faith and all due care in the context outlined above , the doctor who turns off the ventilator does nothing to warrant criminal sanction . |
| 11 | Provided the ultimate prognosis were one of improvement or recovery , it is submitted that anyone — doctor , medical attendant , or other — who turns off the ventilator with knowledge that death will result and an intent to bring this about is guilty of murder . |
| 12 | At a roadside cottage at the end of the village ( a former toll bar ) , a narrow lane turns off the main road to the left and continues beyond a crossroads and the old railway track to start a long climb on the side of Casterton Fell and ultimately come to an end at Bullpot Farm . |
| 13 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 14 | Do you have easy access to the stop cock that turns off the water ? |
| 15 | This definition is clarified when Sadat turns off the road through an entrance discreet enough to admit the car with only a centimetre on either side . |
| 16 | Backing off the Drive rotary turns off the LED next to it ; this indicates that the GX-7 is in clean mode . |
| 17 | On a modern system this may have been replaced by a safety device called a residual current device ( RCD ) , which turns off the supply if it detects current leaking to earth , and so protects the system and its users against the twin risks of fire and electric shock . |
| 18 | Crilly turns off the telly and puts on a Billie Holiday record . |
| 19 | He turns off the main drag . |
| 20 | He turns off the engine , comes out of his car , walks round it on to the pavement , then tells us to turn and face the wall . |
| 21 | But as the chill of doubt takes hold , underpinned by Lincoln 's development from an enchanting small boy into an adolescent from hell , Carroll 's novel abruptly veers off the rails , lurching from an interesting and astute study of an ordinary man faced with a monstrous moral dilemma into a considerably less interesting fantasy about ( I think ) cyclical existence and reincarnation . |
| 22 | The mathematical probability of any family producing a chess Grandmaster was thought to be relatively low ; the mathematical probability of producing three in a row goes off the chart . |
| 23 | International : Michelin goes off the boil |
| 24 | If the spin is " up " the electron goes off one way , if it is " down " the electron goes off the other way , as in the figure . |
| 25 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 26 | and he goes off the big city ma ma , like this and he 's got a fucking flying helmet and a flying bucket |
| 27 | And she actually goes off the it 's on e every hour at least |
| 28 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 29 | In this case one male drives off the others when the nest is completed . |
| 30 | It whistles off the stars |