Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he bent down and licked off the jam . |
| 2 | The auburn-haired equestrienne delivered herself of a pithy speech , gave the young man , now scarlet beneath his whiskers , no chance to reply , put out a hand and thrust him physically aside with such force that he staggered back and bounced off the door of Woolworth 's behind him , and strode on . |
| 3 | Ellwood filled up and parked off the forecourt behind some store-rooms . |
| 4 | It was actually , I nearly creased up and fell off the chair at that stage . |
| 5 | Well , in the end the inevitable happened — Illtyd got fed up and called off the engagement , and thereafter ‘ Jilted by Illtyd ’ became a byword in Hut 4 . |
| 6 | That means breaking up and selling off the state-owned monopolies . |
| 7 | To keep this depth and spread without using chorus I just left the chorus switched on and backed off the rate and depth controls to 0 ; switching the chorus off again put the sound back in the middle of the speakers and sounded quite boring by comparison . |
| 8 | And the crunch comes next month when the company has to face the possibility of closing down or selling off the whole business — although this will be a last resort and an acquisition or joint venture may be more likely . |
| 9 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |
| 10 | Most of the advice Kenneth Clarke 's receiving is to cut rates , his job now is to decide whether Britain 's economy is more in danger of boiling over or going off the boil completely . |
| 11 | I reached up and flipped off the light and lit a cigarette . |
| 12 | Quickly he reached out and turned off the night lock . |
| 13 | Mandy reached out and turned off the light , and Charity felt grateful for the blessed darkness . |
| 14 | Midway through the fourth song , Yorick gave up and stumbled off the stage . |
| 15 | NHS hospitals were notorious for getting papers mixed up and cutting off the wrong leg or arm . |
| 16 | Mrs Sweet stood up and stripped off the housecoat . |
| 17 | Sandy stood up and dusted off the seat of his shorts . |
| 18 | G.P. jumped up and turned off the player . |
| 19 | She stood back and peeled off the shirt with a nonchalance only a trifle marred when a button caught in her hair . |