Example sentences of "off on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no point in sending them off on endless — no doubt excellent — courses if there 's no incentive for them to use up large slices of their spare time in teaching the game . |
| 2 | Just finishing off on electrical energy . |
| 3 | Shame about the result yesterday , but what a joy to see Hughes-less being sent off on live tv ! |
| 4 | They 're forever gadding off on expensive holidays . |
| 5 | Now let it rub off on greedy directors of other companies , especially those recently privatised , who have been giving themselves huge rises while keeping down workers ' pay . |
| 6 | After morning parade , those not required for any tests or interviews would go off on working parties around the camp . |
| 7 | ‘ Someone who gets off on slapping people around , ’ SHe 'd answered carelessly . |
| 8 | Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits . |
| 9 | If astronauts go off on long journeys , in any direction in three-dimensional space , they 'll get to the boundary of our universe . |
| 10 | He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained . |
| 11 | It would only be if somebody was off on long term sickness or |
| 12 | He 's into fun and games in bed , all the horny things that I get off on like spankings and Polaroid pictures . |
| 13 | It is still touch and go whether Americans will go into the election feeling better off than four years ago or whether they will still be blaming their President for keeping them comparatively poor — that 's to say , better off on average than anybody else in the world but not by as much as before . |
| 14 | As soon as they set off on separate duties , they both visibly relaxed . |
| 15 | Every day the Prince and Princess went off on official business , to look at churches , visit hospitals and meet people , and the minute they were back on board the royal yacht , Charles would quickly change into some comfortable clothes and sit on deck with his sketchbook and teacher , until the very last minute before the bell for dinner . |
| 16 | In the experience of the author , the idea of the scheme is catching on very widely , and the theories running through it are rubbing off on traditional conveyancing practice in the commercial area . |
| 17 | It can then be set off on new cases . |
| 18 | If everybody was just gon na get off on weird sounds , there 'd be no words . |
| 19 | Aide got off on wrong foot |
| 20 | Then back they go to continued breaking off on match-winning fish with their totally inadequate lines . |
| 21 | She receives more complaints , she said , from those who are in work but feel they would be as well off on supplementary benefit ; her aim is to increase the gap between those who are working and the non-working . |
| 22 | While transit passengers went off on local tours , Ellerman & Bucknall were busy co-ordinating the delivery of 80 tons of supplies and 2,500 tons of fuel to be taken on board . |
| 23 | He also claimed that there was " no independent constitutional authority for Congress to go off on investigatory frolics of its own " . |
| 24 | They were altogether sharper and funnier , liable to dash off on little fantasy runs . |
| 25 | ‘ Now you are setting off on mad expeditions . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm sure it 's twenty six weeks off on full pay and then you go on |
| 27 | Still with the chap in the lightweight , knee-length anorak of French origin , very popular with bearded prannies who wear ethnic shoes , get off on Olde English folk music and have girlfriends called Ros who run encounter groups where you can find your true self and be at one with the cosmos . |
| 28 | Presently a remark of Elizabeth 's started him off on capital punishment , because it emerged that Ivy was rather a friend to hanging . |
| 29 | Finally the young woman stated , ‘ I 'd be better off on Social Welfare ’ . |
| 30 | This view seems to have rubbed off on foreign , non-Marxist interpreters of the passage of NEP , who as a whole are inclined to think that a cultural policy of laissez-faire was pursued throughout NEP . |