Example sentences of "[vb past] off [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the bloodiest day in two and a half years of Arab protest against Israeli protest against Israeli rule , triggered off when a twenty one year old Israeli machine-gunned seven Arabs to death on a sandy road embankment outside Tel Aviv . |
| 2 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 3 | This lasted but a little while , for those on the fringes , both forward and aft , drew off as soon as they had room and control , and sought firmer ground and more elbow-room . |
| 4 | Darkling they drew off as best they could , dragging their wounded with them , carrying them when they dropped . |
| 5 | She bounded off as though over stepping stones , from one object to another that would scarcely hold , old tyres , old boots , the ribs of crates from which the seagulls were dislodged in resentment . |
| 6 | Two of the three moved off as he arrived , with unconvincing references to waiting papers , but Bruce Davidson stood his ground , enquiring heartily how Francesca was and had she been helpful ? |
| 7 | If they did consent , and accepted the money — it was good pay for this area — they wandered off before he had half finished , not wanting to be classed as figures of fun like him . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Da Silva , the quiet , arch-backed Portuguese man , who had suffered such ill treatment , wandered off when nobody was looking . |
| 9 | He wandered off when we were n't looking and we never saw him again . |
| 10 | I Dreamed the mess under our wheels into tissue paper and drove off before the rest of the place could go up . |
| 11 | She patted him on the shoulder and he drove off as she plumbed her bag for a ring of keys which would n't have looked out of place at Balmoral . |
| 12 | Drove off as I went past . ’ |
| 13 | But he drove off when her husband appeared . |
| 14 | We dried off as best we could at the expensive on-site tourist hotel and , as the mist rose and a pale sun came out , paid our money and entered the site itself . |
| 15 | The psychiatrist who buggered off while listening , |
| 16 | One instructor paddled off while the other stayed to help me get the canoe out and empty it . |
| 17 | He was man who was always on the point of launching some immense enterprise , a few of which indeed came off while others ended disastrously . |
| 18 | I always wore clogs , and if an iron came off while I was cycling to town I could take it to him , go off somewhere like the pictures , and it would be ready and waiting for me straight afterwards . |
| 19 | The plaintiff pedestrian was struck on the leg by a part of the wheel of the defendant 's lorry , which came off as it was being driven along the road . |
| 20 | It 's thought Becky Blandford 's hat came off as she fell and it 's not certain whether it had a chin strap , like the one she 's wearing here . |
| 21 | The end came off when your mother was playing a round with me . |
| 22 | Originally , the Middlesbrough man 's death was treated as suspicious and the pub sealed off as police questioned teatime drinkers . |
| 23 | Well it would be I suppose it would be possible that that they could start their time together and work right through for years together , but invariably er that did n't happen because people were picked up and laid off as the boat progressed , er and if er Y you may get a a run for the one yard would need , say , six squads of of riveters , in a hurry . |
| 24 | and er , it was thirty six pound , but she knocked another three pound off cos there was a little mark on the front which just sponged off as soon as I got home . |
| 25 | Someone grabbed her bag and made off before she had time to see who it was . |
| 26 | The gunman had stopped shooting and made off after a passing motorist arrived on the scene , the court heard . |
| 27 | With that the three of them made off as best they could . |
| 28 | The Brigadier was red in the face : Things are n't as they should be … ’ he began again , and tailed off as the Captain indicated that he should sit down . |
| 29 | Her whisper tailed off as he approached the bed . |
| 30 | Her voice tailed off as , opening out the letter , he began to read . |