Example sentences of "off [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Burtons let off part of the house and lived in the rest . |
| 2 | He pulled off part of the officer 's jumper and pulled it tightly across the back of his neck . |
| 3 | If you do well , some lenders will allow you to pay off part of the loan before the end of the original term — a huge bonus . |
| 4 | However , how many times have you seen your ball deviate off course at the last moment due to someone not repairing their pitch mark ? |
| 5 | In the pilot we go off mine-detecting on the Isle of Wight and discover some lizards . ’ |
| 6 | Either he had perfected the performance over the years to ward off sympathy from the able-bodied , or he was hiding something far worse than a self-destructive youth . |
| 7 | Queen Victoria , whom she made perpetual coarse jokes about in a way that struck people as uncalled for , had put her off marriage in the same way that she had put her off Scotland . |
| 8 | 20 day later , while he was doing some finishing off work on the bungalow , he recklessly made a false statement , i. e. he told the purchaser that the bungalow was covered by the National House Builders Registration Council 's 10 year guarantee . |
| 9 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 10 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 11 | So everybody got back round the table , fended off panic about the deadline galloping towards them — the image had to be in place for next week 's programme launch — and tried to figure out what next to do . |
| 12 | Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy , god of the Nile , a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head ; Taurt , a hippopotamus goddess , connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth ; and Bes , an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion 's mane and tail carrying knives , who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child . |
| 13 | Authors at the conference , in social and business sessions include Shirley Hughes and Aidan Chambers , who round off conference at the Random House Breakfast on Wednesday , Anthony Sampson , Terence Blacker and Terry Pratchett , the guest of honour at the annual dinner dance . |
| 14 | Glumly we returned to Wick on one engine knowing that it would probably be a pay off job in the middle of our tour . |
| 15 | Also her parents hated John and Yoko , switching off Top of the Pops , saying they were sacrilegious : Christ , you know it ai n't easy ! became her silent song . |
| 16 | Smooth the top edge into the white icing evenly , smooth over the joins and trim off excess around the base . |
| 17 | The Humber has been a barrier which cut off trade to the south . |
| 18 | There I am on the neatly mown grass that says Keep Off Grass with the pigeon pinned under my armpit trying to bend its neck double and it smacking me in the face with one wing , when all of a sudden there 's this : ‘ Oi ! ’ |
| 19 | E/A turned and made off East at the same time as we sighted him . |
| 20 | The star systems , right or wrong , are only there to provide the right atmosphere ; to set the mood ; to spark off communion with the spirit or energy force . |
| 21 | Like Camdessus , Conable urged creditor nations to write off debt to the poorest nations [ see also p. 37731 for LDC conference in Paris ] and claimed that a 10 per cent cut in military spending by members of NATO would free enough resources to double development assistance . |
| 22 | In a US property , a guest let off steam to the bartender because his room was not ready and it was already late . |
| 23 | This is a major cause of physical handicap , but the insertion of valves which drain off fluid to the heart have reduced the risk of brain damage . |
| 24 | Stories on video tap the interest most of us have in the lives and predicaments of other human beings and can be used to spark off discussion in the classroom . |
| 25 | They were getting the best of it , too , for there were only serving-people left and a few armed men , since the rest went off north with the courier . |
| 26 | The fifteen hundred men who had set off north from the Forth directly after the first struggle with Siward and who must be less than two hours away at this moment , marching up Strathallan by the way he had come himself , passing Dunblane and Forteviot . |
| 27 | Break off yarn at the end . |
| 28 | There are many plants that give off scent during the day but which seem to take on fresh strength in the evenings . |