Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 2 | The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me . |
| 3 | ‘ A week last Wednesday I dropped off a load of wood here on my way to Windsor races . |
| 4 | Having made Winter Marsh from the Crouch I anchored off a shallow bay and rowed ashore in the dinghy . |
| 5 | I prised off a scab and gave it the tongue test . |
| 6 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 7 | Thus I Broke Off a Golden Branch , which incorporates Croatian folk melody , begins by seducing the ear with warm string tone and lilting piano colouring which grows , the rhythms becoming tougher and more insistent , the emotional tension mounting . |
| 8 | What I 'm sorry I switched off a couple of minutes ago |
| 9 | The third time I heard this trail ( as they are called ) , I dashed off a quick letter about my coffin difficulties , asking , at the same time , that if the producer considered my problem worth airing , could I be provided with a tape-recorder so I could get some of the more pompous prevarications dished out by the trade on permanent record ? |
| 10 | And in the dark , when we lay beneath a single sheet and I gave off a Calabrian sweat , when the middle stretch of the night was shorter but still hard to get through — then , as I turned towards that loose S beside me , she would , with a soft murmur , try to lift the lost hair from the back of her neck . |
| 11 | My home club is Coombe Hill in Kingston , Surrey , and I play off a handicap of 17 . |
| 12 | someone tugging off a pair of tights … |
| 13 | Nor could I shake off a feeling that Aunt Louise was sitting beside me , enjoying it too . |
| 14 | Someone set off a rocket over the green , and red and blue sparks hung for a moment against the thunderclouds then vanished into thin air . |
| 15 | There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed . |
| 16 | A brewery which fought off a hostile takeover bid last year has announced record profits . |
| 17 | Yeast extract e.g. marmite , some wines , vinegar and also cheese are all very rich in certain chemicals called amines , which trigger off a migraine headache in sensitive people . |
| 18 | El Niño is apparently triggered by the warming of ocean currents in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific , which set off a pattern of weather bringing drought to many tropical areas , but heavier than normal rain to the western American seaboard . |
| 19 | Shakespeare 's play has an arranged duel which miscarries , and which takes off a divided , gambling man who has wondered whether or not it might be better to end his life . |
| 20 | There was the debilitating link between Neath and Wales which carted off a team-load of Neath players to the Welsh squad and left them psychologically impaired ; when Wales stumbled , they tumbled from bad to worse . |
| 21 | He carries with him from childhood an unconscious guilt for his little sister 's death in a freak accident , a death which sets off a series of revenge killings . |
| 22 | In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs . |
| 23 | The bed itself had an old , lumpy mattress which gave off a faint odour of damp or rotting fabric — or perhaps it was the lingering smell of sheep . |
| 24 | After a while a flickering light appeared in the distance and drew steadily nearer ; a torch-bearer came into view , a girl , wearing a long white gown which left her arms bare ; she carried aloft a burning torch which gave off a great deal of tarry smoke . |
| 25 | He climbed the ladder , holding up a cord taken from the throat of Hell which gave off a red light as it smouldered . |
| 26 | Queen Margaret , white-faced and with dark-ringed eyes , nodded slightly and Catesby prised loose the lid to reveal white , gauze cloths which gave off a sweet fragrant perfume . |
| 27 | Underfoot , last year 's leaves had rotted into a soft mould which gave off a pleasant nutty scent , and small clumps of primroses nestled amongst it . |
| 28 | Mike Phelan looked like he may have discovered a passage into the second round with a fierce drive which spun off a defender with the goalkeeper stranded . |
| 29 | This is a good place , too , for the mat-like camomile ‘ Treneague ’ , which gives off a strong aroma as you tread it underfoot . |
| 30 | The match , which kicked off a few minutes later than its scheduled 10.15 start time , ended on a bizarre note seven minutes into injury time at 12.15am . |