Example sentences of "off [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | MARILLION singer Steve Hogarth was left red-faced when a fan tried to rip his trousers off during a sell-out show . |
| 2 | The public impression was that seamen had become substantially worse off during a period in which real wages fell by at least 4% . |
| 3 | And the occasion will be given more spice by the fact that Dorahy played at full back and stand off during a spell at the Boulevard . |
| 4 | They can be so noisy that they are often switched off during an autopsy , increasing the level of air pollution and the risk of acquisition of air-borne infections . |
| 5 | He declined the offer of a lift home , wished me an interesting journey , and set off through a light Prague drizzle . |
| 6 | He thought about the dignified posture of Elinor and Elinor 's mother , about how good they looked in black , about how they retained their composure even as the oblong box containing Derek slid off through a gap in the crematorium wall . |
| 7 | After trailing her for over two hours Poppy flopped down , but when I approached her she just got up and dived off through a hole in the fence . |
| 8 | She flew around , looking for Prince William , found him in the kitchen , grabbed his arm and ran off through a side door . |
| 9 | He cantered back and forth on the gravel beach , then rode off through a corn field . |
| 10 | It sprang down off her lap and prowled off through a flower bed . |
| 11 | This increase did not account for almost £200 million written off through a change in accounting practices . |
| 12 | Once pasta is cooked , strain water off through a colander and , using the same pan , add two to three tablespoons of olive oil ; heat the oil and drop in one to two tablespoons of pesto . |
| 13 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 14 | So if your mains goes off through an electrical storm or something |
| 15 | Then someone tipped me off about a US material used for bow and kite strings . ’ |
| 16 | Sailing as corporate hospitality took off about a decade ago , with companies looking for a new way of hosting events . |
| 17 | He was pissed off about a cameraman who kept stalking his every move ; filming for use on the large video screens positioned on either side of the stage . |
| 18 | Even if someone else comes up to us and tips us off about a possible shoplifter we can only act if we see the person steal again , ’ she adds . |
| 19 | The better things presumed to be in store for Glasser when he went off as a scholarship boy to a glamorous university in the South of England are , in a sense , the subject of Gorbals Boy at Oxford , his second volume of autobiography . |
| 20 | Practise opening more airbrake during the hold off as a means of getting the glider down fully held off , but without such a long float . |
| 21 | We 'd get to one poem four or five days into the war , or after The Belgrano or Sir Galahad , and then you have ‘ Lie Still ’ … which is sombre , like a tribute , and then the others , like ‘ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ’ , which started off as a camp throwaway as a tango ; but the poems put together with an orchestra gives them much more depth . ’ |
| 22 | Lawyers acting for Ferranti concede that there is no chance of getting back the full £215m which the company is being forced to write off as a result of the International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 23 | Everyone laughed it off as a typical piece of board-room exaggeration . |
| 24 | Terence Trent D'Arby-Neither Fish Nor Flesh ( CBS 1989 ) IT WO N'T do to write D'Arby off as a pathetic Prince impersonator , because his roots are rather different-more Sixties London than Detroit funk . |
| 25 | But after Commodore cut the price by £100 , and threw in the £25 add-on TV adaptor , the Amiga took off as a games machine . |
| 26 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 27 | It was the most successful tour England had ever made , all the more satisfying as it began with them being written off as a bunch of no-hopers . |
| 28 | Would Britain be better off as a theme park ? |
| 29 | She passed it off as a joke , furious that she had given herself away . |
| 30 | He proceeded , unchallenged , to the shuttle docks where he 'd previously concealed the identity backup so that he could pass himself off as a human shuttle-worker . |