Example sentences of "off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fuller appreciation may result from a short or a long article , even occasionally some unexpected insight or well-phrased judgement ; but it will not come from a brief comment off the cuff , an item of gossip , or a mere listing . |
| 2 | One day I would write it — and them — off the face of the earth … ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk . |
| 5 | But what I want to know is this — how come a Pakistani hot off the banana boat can get a mortgage when a decent cop with 25 years service in the force can not ? |
| 6 | However , in the interests of Western European stability and its own financial position , the British government is perhaps still putting off the final offer — either British withdrawal or some form of power-sharing with catholic nationalists — in the hope of loyalists coming round to what is seen as a more reasonable position . |
| 7 | They took what was left after the church schools had creamed off the more academic pupils and the upper classes . |
| 8 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 9 | It is advisable to leave the bucket loosely covered and not to skim off the yeast head . |
| 10 | Saw off the tap from the large plastic screw cap , insert the bung and the airlock . |
| 11 | The remote island of Pantelleria , off the coast of Sicily and more than halfway to Tunisia , produces a superb dessert wine . |
| 12 | One way of putting off the day of replacement is to take more care of existing cutlery . |
| 13 | Her winning entry , grillade de rouget , St Jacques et langoustines aux asperges vertes , huile d'olive et basilic , came straight off the carte at Les Abesses . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , she ca n't get off the island , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Had an enemy completely unknown to Peggy travelled to the fête in Little Tuckett with the express purpose of bumping off the fulsome Phipps ? |
| 16 | He stood , scarlet-cheeked , as she moved towards the screen , throwing off the kimono as she went . |
| 17 | On his knees he took off the slipper , slid the white high-heeled sandal on to her foot . |
| 18 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 19 | Set to kick off the programme at MAC on Saturday 29 September is the British premiere of MASALA an irreverent tragi-comedy set amongst Toronto 's middle-class Asian community starring Saeed Jaffrey . |
| 20 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 21 | Celebrated French director Bertrand Tavernier will be in Birmingham straight off the set of his latest film for a retrospective look over his career and films with the Guardian 's film critic Derek Malcolm . |
| 22 | She quickly left the room , took her coat off the hat-stand in the hallway and left . |
| 23 | Why should I let society off the hook by accepting rubbish when it 's more than within their means to treat me with dignity ? ’ |
| 24 | The idea of the hostel is just to get you off the streets , so to speak . |
| 25 | Each tree consists of just two branches , 2–3ft long , running along about a foot off the ground . |
| 26 | Take the guesswork out of watering growbags by raising the bags off the ground and providing a reservoir beneath them . |
| 27 | At this stage cut off the complete head and invert it in a paper bag , hanging these in an airy place for a few days until the seeds are quite dry . |
| 28 | This is when there is the greatest risk of the glider being lifted off the ground by the first strong gust . |
| 29 | Usually , the weight of a person on the extreme nose will prevent the glider lifting off the ground , but to be safe it is best to put a person in the cockpit . |
| 30 | A student at Lashan Gliding Centre was badly hurt once when the glider lifted off the ground and came down on top of him as he walked by the nose . |