Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next afternoon , then , they set off , a cheerful host , for this was the sort of venture that appealed to most , not any long campaign or set warfare but a raid , a dash into enemy territory , a showing of the flag , a swift paying off of old scores — and with the prospect of booty . |
| 2 | However , that did not stop the sense of adventure to a 20-year-old going off in 1933 in a very strange vessel called the Somersetshire , of which a very famous Air Force song will be sung for evermore . |
| 3 | If one is a woman one is often surprised by a sudden splitting off of consciousness , say in walking down Whitehall , when from being the natural inheritor of that civilisation , she becomes , on the contrary , outside of it , alien and critical . |
| 4 | Apparently , so the bloke on Sky said , Wilko gets a major slagging off in it , and Cantona even says stuff like Wilko sold him cheap to the Scum just to piss him off . |
| 5 | Then back they go to continued breaking off on match-winning fish with their totally inadequate lines . |
| 6 | The danger is of a breakdown , in the disorientation of excess of information , the compass needle going wild as multiple pulls drag it hither and thither , and then a self-defensive shutting off of information and lapse into irrationalism . |
| 7 | He wo n't believe it was a trick , but everyone here knows it was , ’ he said.A spokeswoman for Sizewell B said : ‘ We believe it 's not a wind-up , but if it is his friends will get a good ticking off ! ’ |
| 8 | There had been , he explained in answer to questions , a great falling off in traffic . |
| 9 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development plc . |
| 10 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development Plc . |
| 11 | The sporadic shutting off of town centres by selective use of barriers is already under way to stop the bombers . |
| 12 | I 'll do it , but at present I 'm very busy finishing off Australia , working on China , the Vatican , Portugal and the Balearics . ’ |
| 13 | Lee Turnbull got the header … the United defence a severe ticking off from manager Greg Downs … |
| 14 | She was busy taking off a back-slab and replastering a fracture when Jack appeared , sticking his head round the door and grinning . |
| 15 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 16 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 17 | After a suitably stern telling off from Mr Grovey ( whose bald head always got redder the angrier he got ) the lesson moved on to the next phase . |
| 18 | Hence the more complicated backing off formulae are not necessary . |
| 19 | ‘ See he 's able to breathe and do n't move him , ’ I said , to no-one in particular pulling off my hat before half-diving , half-crawling , into the upturned car . |
| 20 | Of course , she had come up against death , or the prospect of it , many times in the course of her work , but somehow she had never acquired the sort of immunity against emotional involvement , that almost instinctive shutting off , as so many of her colleagues had seemed to do . |
| 21 | Vested interests have defended the status quo with great skill and determination and they 've had their axes sharpened using er sharpeners energised by the oxygen of Labour 's irresponsible backing off . |
| 22 | Visitor numbers at the museum also saw a sharp falling off under the Fuchs administration : of the 200,000 expected in 1991 , only 124,000 materialised . |
| 23 | And after two or three years of ‘ what seemed like free fall ’ in the early 80s , there has been a significant levelling off in the sales graph and the cost base has been radically improved . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just Bony showing off again . |