Example sentences of "[verb] off in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mitchell cooled off in September , Clark came into his own , to the delight of his manager . |
| 2 | We climbed a little further and Arthur cooled off in the tarn . |
| 3 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |
| 4 | At that time there were two or three hundred Viscounts flying in various parts of the world , and to have grounded all Viscounts because the wings had come off in flight in this accident would have contributed nothing to air safety . |
| 5 | Cooling off in a Scottish loch : riders from the Castle Riding Centre , Argyllshire . |
| 6 | Dave Weatherley strips off in the line of duty to put seven seriously warm bags to the test . |
| 7 | In this case the soil tends to come off in flakes . |
| 8 | Suddenly , somewhere off to the rear , came an yell of alarm and the roar of a shotgun going off , followed by three more blasting off in quick succession . |
| 9 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 10 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 11 | She was eventually dropped off in Northampton seven hours after her ordeal began … |
| 12 | She was eventually dropped off in Northampton . |
| 13 | Every few seconds , it stops , executes a pirouette with its head lifted and then dashes off in another direction . |
| 14 | He then grabbed all her feathers and threw them in the gutter before storming off in the direction of the Black Bull . |
| 15 | The best and longest-lasting tans are acquired slowly — quick tans are usually fast burns and peel off in a trice . |
| 16 | After stripping off in a Levi 's ad and Thelma & Louise , Brad Pitt has been hailed as the new James Dean , a sex symbol for the Nineties . |
| 17 | The East Belfast man ca n't put a foot over the door of his Cregagh Road home without first stripping off in the garden . |
| 18 | Mr Szuluc says his parents are pensioners who ca n't afford to clothe him , so in frustration he decided to stage a protest at his local DSS office in Stroud , stripping off in front of the other bemused claimants , and handing his borrowed clothes back to his brother . |
| 19 | The previous year to my visit a sizeable chunk had cracked off in a storm . |
| 20 | She charged off in search of her mother . |
| 21 | Many of these mature offspring of the root form work their way to the surface and those which are winged fly off in search of new vines . |
| 22 | Workers observing it and about to leave on their own foraging , immediately fly off in the direction indicated . |
| 23 | and fly off in a shower , airily |
| 24 | The Liverpool manager was seething with rage after his defender David Burrows was carried off in this Coca-Cola Cup tie with a severe knee injury that will keep him out for at least three months . |
| 25 | He placed his own mantle on Elisha 's shoulders , who said his farewell to his parents , and became Elijah 's companion and understudy , following him faithfully on a journey of farewells , and finally inheriting the mantle which fell off Elijah 's shoulders as he was actually or mystically carried off in ‘ ’ a whirlwind into heaven ’ . |
| 26 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 27 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 28 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 29 | WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ? |
| 30 | However it was , the one he had aimed at did not get out of the way in time and a last-minute attempt to slink off in the wind failed . |