Example sentences of "[vb -s] off and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost invariably , when that happens , its blue tail drops off and lies wriggling on the rock with such vigour that the aggressor 's attention is diverted to it , often for sufficiently long for the skink itself to slip free and escape . |
| 2 | his , his nob drops off and then he dies , he has the bees equivalent of a cigarette ? |
| 3 | his nob drops off and he dies |
| 4 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 5 | She communicates basically by using a cannon communicator which types out what she wants to say onto ticker tape which she then tears off and hands to the person to whom she wants to talk . |
| 6 | One gripes and holds off and bangs the pillows and thinks the real thing is to come , and then one starts to lose the thread . |
| 7 | I do n't know how the end starts off and we have n't singed it properly , one , two , three , four , five , six , we have six , six |
| 8 | One advantage of Chinese celebrations is that they do not linger on , as everyone knocks off and goes home to bed at about 9 p.m . |
| 9 | Confidence rubs off and pays dividends . |
| 10 | Well as I told you at you used to clip them that damn short and we when I was knocking them off , I had to keep dodging down , let the wag and keep knock clips off and chuck the one side and then the wagons came down They went down the hill like that , and then up here there was a hook line to stop them . |
| 11 | And eventually you you either do and he drives off and nearly runs into rams into a lamppost or something like that on his way when he 's finally given up , or else sometimes as I say they get together and er everything 's hunkydory . |
| 12 | This dopant layer sets the voltage at which the transistor turns off and on . |
| 13 | All of a sudden , one of these ideal mothers goes off and leaves her children . |
| 14 | But the platform general alarm goes off and everybody goes to their master stations by the lifeboat . |
| 15 | She goes off and Stuart , who has his own special tiny motor car , drives off to the north on her trail . |
| 16 | The cabin light goes off and I feel some connection again with the dark desert . |
| 17 | The man will then , at least have to get the consent of the woman before he goes off and sells their joint property . |
| 18 | I will send you a copy before it actually goes off and read it and ring me aft if if there 's anything you do n't understand or you do n't agree with okay ? |
| 19 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 20 | On reaching the city centre the generator goes off and the bus runs on in virtual silence . |
| 21 | so er , he goes off and he comes back with three samples then , well one of them , it has been in the window as well , but it 's a very definite diamondy shape |
| 22 | it , it cuts down like that , then it goes off then it starts again , then it goes off and then goes |
| 23 | If you tell him sternly , he does understand the tone of your voice if he goes off and sulks for a while , well so be it you 'll have to sulk till you get used to it , there you are . |
| 24 | three of them come out , now what happens if there are Right you fire this snooker ball into one uranium nucleus , it splits off and then three snooker balls come flying out and there 's more uranium about what 's gon na happen ? |
| 25 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |
| 26 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |
| 27 | But as time wears on , the novelty wears off and dissatisfaction results . |
| 28 | I think that the rain makes it come and the paint wears off and you can see it . |
| 29 | As with all stimulants , depression sets in when the initial stimulant effect wears off and a further dose of stimulant is required to counteract the depression . |
| 30 | And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ? |