Example sentences of "off that " in BNC.

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1 But then again , how is the individual management to know if it happens to be one of those which ought to acknowledge a responsibility to maintain or lower prices , or whether it is one of the lucky ones which can be let off that responsibility ?
2 You can take that rubbish off that chair and wipe it , will you ? ’
3 But also I think he rips off that culture .
4 The church took its name from that of an older church a little way off that was demolished to make way for the ramparts of the Porta Romana in 1532 .
5 ‘ If I 'm not mistaken , I pulled a pissed up matelot off that blonde piece on V.E. night .
6 There 's always a chill wind blowing off that river . ’
7 I 'll never forget how th'near slaughtered that feller — or the five golden guineas th'won for me off that dozy dago as set the Creole on thee .
8 Walk off that , and you create one marked ‘ 2 ’ …
9 ‘ Do n't say anything , but I saw Bob Lamb going along the beck , so I sent her off that way , too .
10 Indoors he can get through almost half a show with one guitar — but then I try and get him off that , so that we do n't have the problem of breaking strings . ’
11 So get those hipster strides on , polish your Chelsea boots , dust off that old black polo-neck , comb the fringe and get down to Brandoni 's place in Wembley ( call them first , though , please ) .
12 Labour did n't work hard enough at prising off that glove ; at challenging Thatcher 's theology of individual self-sufficiency ; instead it rejected the radical compassion of international socialism for the gloss and shine of Thatcher-style politics .
13 Here is the prop 's definitive advice : ‘ If you concentrate on the scrum and get your own put-in right without being shoved back and disrupted , everyone from the back row through to the threequarters can work off that .
14 ‘ And you let them use the income off that ?
15 Jesus , if you knew how hard we tried to get her off that damned powder . ’
16 From these pits such an appalling stench was given off that scarcely anyone dared even to walk beside the churchyards . ’
17 He himself , wounded , had been led off that bloody hill by his own esquire .
18 I could n't see why , because apparently the kid is looked after by a local nursemaid , who had taken it off that day to visit her own family .
19 Graham finished in a time of 10hrs 07mins 40secs , not bad considering the terror canoe section , but this season he is convinced that he can knock as much as an hour off that effort with more intense training and kinder weather .
20 A vague command where the child does not understand the meaning behind the statement , e.g. ‘ Be careful ’ instead of ‘ Please come down off that wall ’ .
21 The goings on and comings off that stunned the world this week .
22 The 6 pm timing of the rate cut announcement lumbered investors who 'd sent their cheques off that day .
23 ‘ I was always pissed off that , intellectually , we were looked down upon .
24 Remember the other month , it was in the papers , was n't it ? about them tearing the clothes off that one who tried to queer their pitch ?
25 ‘ Come down off that !
26 Come down off that !
27 And all for £2,325 , though if you replace the luxury of a VL-bus super-fast VGA card plus SuperVGA colour display ( that came with the review model ) with a more suitable mono VGA system , you 'd knock around £250 off that price .
28 You missed a couple off that proactive I think is the buzz word it 's called seem less production so .
29 For it was , in truth , as if his legs followed a route from which he could not turn them back — along the sales signs in Oxford Street occupied by a bedraggled army of Christmas bargain hunters , and off that up to the grandiose frontage of the hotel .
30 Twisting into the first side street and then a smaller street off that and along its full length he ran and ran as fast as his legs would carry him .
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