Example sentences of "[vb base] off [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I leap off my spot and down into the cabin where it sits in a predominant place . |
| 2 | But in recent weeks , Joey had seen Seth drunkenly leap off his balcony into his pool . |
| 3 | Two fiesty little Yorkshire terriers leap off his lap and hurl their combined body weight of two grapefruits against my legs . |
| 4 | Her pulses were racing madly as he watched him tug his tie undone with a rough impatience , shrug off his jacket and begin to dispose of his shirt in the same cool , determined style . |
| 5 | Now , four weeks after their wedding day , she lay in bed and watched him peel off his undershirt , revealing a mass of dark ginger curls over his back and chest . |
| 6 | When you peel off your fleecy top from your fuchsia thermal underwear , the static electricity is sufficient to heat and light Linlithgow for a week . |
| 7 | But they 'll have crossed that place off their list . ’ |
| 8 | BELOW Training is a sequence of lessons , and at this stage , you can move back towards the dog and slip off its leash . |
| 9 | At last we are going aboard a tank-landing craft : I slip off my rucksack , assemble the bagpipes , a couple of minutes to tune up , then on with the rucksack and we march on to the craft to the tune Highland Laddie . |
| 10 | To join the Party Club , send off your child 's name and birthday date in good time to : Party Club from Stockingfillas , Tennant House , London Rd , Macclesfield , Cheshire SK11 0LW , and you 'll receive the two books and an order form six weeks before the big day . |
| 11 | Simply send off your entry form and you could soon be celebrating your success with , naturally , a glass of Champagne ! |
| 12 | As soon as I arrive home at night I wash off my make-up and pull on my scruffiest clothes . |
| 13 | They 'd taken the plug out of his boiler just the same and let off his mill-dam without a thought for what it was going to cost him — and them , he 'd see to that — in the long run . |
| 14 | While this is going on ( and it can last several days ) the pair occasionally break off their courtship ritual and return to their chosen spawning site . |
| 15 | ‘ They cut off her hair , her beautiful hair . |
| 16 | But the light no longer poured out of their house and onto the street ; the power cuts , although they supported them passionately , cut off their power somewhere . |
| 17 | If you cut off your nose and ears before we perform , I shall not complain , so long as it does not mar your ability to dance . ’ |
| 18 | Do n't wear clothes that cut off your circulation . |
| 19 | This being that you cut off my head at the same time . ’ |
| 20 | They accidentally , on purpose , cut off my water or the electricity ? ’ |
| 21 | The student who killed his tutor and then cut off his head . ’ |
| 22 | I come in and put the bedside light on , and he lies there with his eyes half-open , conscious but immobilized , as if he were under some strange paralysing drug , unable to tell me what the trouble was , unable to nod or smile or shake off his dream . |
| 23 | Put off your cloak and draw near the fire . |
| 24 | At least that is something to be thankful for , something I shall not have to explain a tenth or fifteenth or hundredth time , one worry off my mind . |
| 25 | Londoners for four generations , they went back triumphantly each year to the village in Italy from which they had sprung to buy wine and show off their wealth . |
| 26 | Pan 's People show off their winter wardrobe |
| 27 | From the left : Proprietors Gary Nicholls and Neal O'Leary of The Old School House Restaurant , show off their award . |
| 28 | All we lack now is the mechanism to turn these highly decorative cadavers into walkie , if not talkie , zombies , to enable them to give a truly remarkable mannequin parade and show off their mortuary gowns in white polyester and cotton , trimmed with lace and ruffles for ladies and satin quilting for the gents ! |
| 29 | Play Bodin in the position you bought him for and show off our defence that otherwise will leak goals like two seasons ago . |
| 30 | show off your tan this summer in this cool little number comprising a cream jersey tunic vest , 50% cotton , 50% viscose , |