Example sentences of "[coord] then [verb] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To measure a ship 's speed , medieval sailors used to throw a log on a length of knotted rope over the side and then count off the knots . |
| 2 | His grandfather had explained that the only true way to bake bread was to burn it black and then rasp off the burnt extremities with a coarse file . |
| 3 | The correct way to shut the machine down is to type EXIT to return to Windows , quit Windows and then switch off the machine . |
| 4 | The aim of the game is to gas as many Jews as possible and then sell off the residual gold teeth . |
| 5 | The borrower gets the amount of this loan , minus the unpaid balance of the original one , as cash in hand , and then pays off the full number of instalments needed to pay off the full sum . |
| 6 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 7 | That was his Sunday ritual : over to Harry 's for cards as soon as lunch was eaten , and back at exactly a quarter after six , to read the Sunday papers and then sleep off the drink . |
| 8 | The Woman gave him one look and then switched off the light and Doyle settled himself in the chair and sat silently in the shadows . |
| 9 | He drove a few miles out of the village and then pulled off the road to wait for dusk . |