Example sentences of "[noun] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To complete the back of the chair it only remains to insert the three vertical splats , once again marking the shoulders off from the upper and lower back rail . |
| 2 | She took just six months off with the birth of each of her sons , now 11 and 14 . |
| 3 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 4 | In Australia , players have four to five months off in the summer to prepare and they also play far less games . ’ |
| 5 | At the junction of the Pilgrims Road where one way leads to Birling and the other branches off into the woods there stands the remains of the old Free Chapel of St. Lawrence , which gives its name to the lane running by . |
| 6 | ‘ I think we must get that husband of yours to lop a few branches off outside the window before you go blind , ’ he says to Rose , to demonstrate the terms he is on with her . |
| 7 | I was thinking , oh yeah I 'll just chop my legs off at the knee shall I ? |
| 8 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
| 9 | You get the youngsters that hare off down the road . |
| 10 | The officers took the tot off to the station , gave her breakfast and put out the radio appeal . |
| 11 | ‘ On a 500 you 're really only washing a bit of speed off with the front . |
| 12 | Her friends pushed the boat off down the river and ran across the fields to get round to the bridge . |
| 13 | Instead , a bit of string was used to secure the bridle strap and Fred galloped the horse off to the start . |
| 14 | Secondly , the zone of tension between the Soviet Union and the West allowed national liberation movements to play one side off against the other : on the one hand , fear of ‘ communism ’ induced some colonial powers to make political concessions , while on the other the Soviet Union often provided political support , arms and training to these movements . |
| 15 | If you 're worried about electricity bills , turn the monitor off at the end of the day . |
| 16 | Having done everything in your tank preparations to avoid new tank syndrome , you can still set in motion some of the attendant problems if you start your new stock off on the wrong fin . |
| 17 | Well I 've turned the one in the bedroom off for the moment cos if in the daytime if your mum 's up re resting |
| 18 | I might add , very briefly , I mean this is a spin off of the traditional aircraft situation , where they 're being used |
| 19 | So the spin off on the electorate is perhaps well , does it really matter ? |
| 20 | There is another spin off for the estate agent of course |
| 21 | Erm but I do feel that there is likely to be some positive spin off for the factories . |
| 22 | They represent a viable spin off from the THORP project control and instrumentation activities . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If he blows his mouth off before the Wee GP , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm for castration . |
| 24 | She dropped a sulky David off at the Grand Hotel . |
| 25 | You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other . |
| 26 | You can never be too early starting your kids off on the right foot — in fact , it 's essential |
| 27 | BR hopes they 'll drop their kids off on the way to work . |
| 28 | I ca n't think of the name of the other German beer but the roll-on roll-off 'll be out in the dock , cos we had a roll-on roll- off in the dock at all |
| 29 | DeFreitas and Malcolm finished Pakistan off with the new ball , Botham bagging his 120th catch and spoiling his chance to go ahead of Cowdrey when Waqar ( 0 ) edged Lewis . |
| 30 | The golfclub head , large crop , strong breast muscles create these and they taper off to the tail with a harmonious unity . |