Example sentences of "off [prep] high " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having delivered his ‘ tough ’ message , Mr Kinnock turned to prime targets of the Conservative record — topped off with high interest rates , which he likened to a policy of assassination for mortgage-holders . |
| 2 | Many start off with high hopes but there is a lot of hurt . |
| 3 | On that first day we set off with high hopes of finding out what the foxes were doing and to work out where to concentrate our filming efforts . |
| 4 | He says that his data showed that those businesses with low investment intensity did indeed start off with high ROI , as the earlier cross-sectional studies discovered , but that this often led managers to over-invest . |
| 5 | The day was rounded off with high tea and a tour of Edinburgh 's hostelries ! |
| 6 | Let Trudi Pacter 's latest book sweep you off into high society |
| 7 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
| 8 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 9 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 10 | Anyway , she drove off at high speed , ignoring all senso unicos , and finally crashed into a bollard by the ospedale . |
| 11 | When approached by Central news Mrs Gee drove off at high speed . |
| 12 | He appeared to be asleep but when he saw officers he took off at high speed . |
| 13 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 14 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 15 | However , stability demands that the gain falls off at high frequency ( see next section ) . |
| 16 | Differences soon arose between Reagan and , in particular , Helmut Schmidt , on a growing crisis in Poland , where a series of strikes , sparked off by high prices and food shortages , had broken out during 1980 . |