Example sentences of "off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously eventually if people keep on leaking blood their pressure will fall but you could have a situation where there 's not a single drop of blood yet lost to the system and yet the person 's in shock because the blood 's not being circulated properly off the heart , not a drop of blood lost to the system , but insufficient pressure , so shock can be caused by either of those two things , failure of the circulatory system because the pressure of the volume drops dangerously low , okay , you did a lot of work on what the person looks like , yes you as the casu you as the first aider will see this person in front of you , what will they be like ? |
| 2 | Philip was mad at himself for not taking the cutters off the boy . |
| 3 | The newspaper was slipping off the boy 's naked body . |
| 4 | These weaknesses were exploited by the Bolsheviks in 1917 when Vikzhel , the old railway trade union , threatened to cut off the capital and the government from the rest of Russia unless Lenin listened to its political demands . |
| 5 | When cutting off the nozzle of a new bottle of pva glue , the contents will eventually dry out unless the hole is sealed again . |
| 6 | As we approach the site , coming off the freeway , we get caught up in a four mile tailback , as there 's only one entrance to the fairground . |
| 7 | Once off the freeway , the stretch-limos are quick to show their limitations . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want to sound sinister , but it could equally well be used to trigger off the detonator in an explosive device being carried by an American Air Force bomber . ’ |
| 9 | The cabin was entered via a door on the starboard side , off the wing-walk . |
| 10 | I 'm still here ! ’ spoken by McQueen when he finally escapes on a craft made of coconut shells — an attempt to round off the story as a paean of praise to survival . |
| 11 | A lot of things are yet to happen from where we 've just left off the story . |
| 12 | The selection is right if it truly works for the competing student , and it is the quality and force of the imagination that will carry off the performance of the piece . |
| 13 | ‘ I got a present for Ana , ’ she said suddenly , shrugging off the foreboding that threatened to sweep over her . |
| 14 | The setting sun — it was now mid-August , so the sun just dipped below the horizon — would round the headland of Flakstad village and dance over some tiny skerries off the shore . |
| 15 | One such barge went with the office of the Lord Mayor of the City of London and that barge was quite frequently moored off the shore at Strand-on-the-Green , close to an inn which became known as ‘ The City Barge ’ . |
| 16 | An old woman gutting hens told him , ‘ That 's the lass took Marion Aluinn , bad cess to her , up off the shore yesterday ! |
| 17 | They did n't hear Lachlan stop his father , as the old man returned after seeing the last visiting galley off the shore . |
| 18 | The Chesapeake 's 5 million hectares of shoreline marshes buffer the eroding influence of waves and act as sediment screening sieves for water running off the shore . |
| 19 | She has given $7,000 ( £4,400 ) towards the cost of a new fire engine , which is housed at the Old Saybrook Fire Station just two miles away from her home in Fenwick off the shore of the Long Island Sound . |
| 20 | Caught by an airborne Nick Veronico on October 15 was the awesome Hughes HK-1 Spruce Goose on the deck of an enormous barge heading north off the shore of Pacifica , California . |
| 21 | Argyll and Bute district council did post warning notices at Loch Awe advising people to keep children and pets off the shore , but these were recently removed after the hot weather which had made the problem worse was over . |
| 22 | Foxes , stoats , weasels and other predators are all happy to get a proportion of their diet off the rabbit population and this is a very great protection for our stocks of game birds — pheasants , partridges and grouse — and indeed most other bird species . |
| 23 | The net bellies out and , if the quarry is running into it downwind , the net can be blown off the rabbit . |
| 24 | The mainsheet traveller tore off the deck and began a chain reaction : next to go was the boom vang , and this caused the boom to fracture at the gooseneck , overloading the mast check-stay which parted . |
| 25 | ‘ Keep it off the deck , ’ he ordered . |
| 26 | Its benevolently smiling head fell off and bounced with a sickening crunch from the beam projector into another of the statues , knocking it off the deck of the float and into the canal . |
| 27 | At their feet the edge of the net began to shift off the deck . |
| 28 | It was already off the deck and bearing them smoothly upwards . |
| 29 | Fishing gear was thrown off the deck and two of the crew were pitched violently backwards into the hold . |
| 30 | At other times I chipped rust off the deck , painted the boats and , in harbour , helped to repaint the ship 's side or check the discharge of cargo . |