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 .
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