Example sentences of "[adj] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | If you 're Pist Off by the ‘ Sell Out ’ , forget it . |
2 | Well Michael , right I 'm gon na turn this off for a bit |
3 | If we round this off to a new |
4 | If we round this off to a new |
5 | Shaking this off with a gasp and a struggle , I uplifted myself upon the pillows , and , peering earnestly within the intense darkness of the chamber , hearkened — I know not why , except that an instinctive spirit prompted me — to certain low and indefinite sounds which came , through the pauses of the storm , at long intervals , I knew not whence . |
6 | With sterling out of Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , Britons tend to write this off as a pipe-dream . |
7 | Take this off down the road . |
8 | Erm , we 've got to send this off before the first of November though . |
9 | the French might have advanced into the country south of Charleroi , but the Duke , as ever , brooded over the left-hand side of the map which showed the great sweep of flat country between Mons and Tournai. that was where he feared a French advance that would cut the British off from the North Sea . |
10 | So it goes on , with mentions of current ripples up to 10 feet and more in height , a gravel delta 200 square miles in area , the stripping off of the loess cover over an area of almost 2000 square miles and so on . |
11 | The very fact of unemployment cuts the wageless off from the resources of the waged working class and its labour movement . |
12 | There were fifteen minutes to opening time , which meant I might just be able to head Duncan the Drunken off at the pass . |
13 | ‘ And if you think you 're going to get all that off without a shower , you 're wrong . ’ |
14 | It 's bonded on tight to the surface and it stops any more air getting and oxidizing the rest of the aluminium , so we take that off with the acid and let the acid react with the aluminium nice hole in it |
15 | Anybody who saw ‘ Radio Radio ’ might have written that off as a rather self-indulgent film . |
16 | You could pass that off as the real thing . |
17 | I 'm not gon na cut it , hang on , listen cut that off at the top |
18 | Turn that off for a minute |
19 | Turn that off for a minute . |
20 | cos , turn that off for a minute |
21 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
22 | You might hear Dave switch that off in the morning . |
23 | That was the first of several epic desert walks carried out by both groups and individuals from the SAS who had become cut off during the campaign in North Africa . |
24 | Ziegler was now cut off on the wrong side of the Brussels road , but that predicament did not worry him . |
25 | And if I ring him we get cut off in the middle of the call . ’ |
26 | When the ice at last melted and the seas rose , Sri Lanka had not only drifted apart from its parent India , it had become cut off by an ocean gap of approximately 20 miles ( 32 km ) . |
27 | TWO anglers were winched to safety by RAF helicopter yesterday after getting cut off by the tide at Severn Beach , Avon . |
28 | Cushendall police requested further assistance in the Glengariff area at 1345 where more livestock had become cut off by the flood waters . |
29 | In addition rituals and procedures are laid down for those who have for a variety of reasons become ‘ unclean ’ , and so have become cut off from the rest of the community . |
30 | Thus a number of sections become cut off from the entrances and these might well not be reopened . |