Example sentences of "off in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw you lasht night an' … ’ he began to sing a romantic song from our courting days , but was cut off in mid warble as he tripped over my hiking boots and crashed into the wardrobe head first . |
| 2 | Amid the resumption of trade and consular relations with various East European countries , diplomatic relations with Hungary , which had been broken off in 1973 , were resumed on Jan. 11 , 1990 , and with Czechoslovakia , East Germany , Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union on March 11 . |
| 3 | Deciding they had n't spent enough time talking to industrialists ( Marks and Spencer was the favoured analogy ) , she killed it off in 1983 . |
| 4 | In both methods the light source is either varied in intensity , as an analogue of the signal , or switched on and off in digital code . |
| 5 | The 1991 amateur circuit will kick off in traditional fashion with the Roehampton Gold Cup next month , while established tournaments like the Astor , Wentworth and Critchley Salvers , the St. Rule and Helen Holm Trophies , plus the ever-growing list of 36-hole ‘ open ’ tournaments , make life as an amateur a carefully planned operation . |
| 6 | But nothing prepared the 14-year-old for the shock when Tony ran off in real life with Tracey . |
| 7 | The average pensioner is 32% better off in real terms than the average pensioner in 1979 . |
| 8 | As a result of the Government 's policy , the pensioner 's widow is more than £17 per week less well off in real terms than she was when the Government came to power . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the government admitted that most people would be around 30 per cent worse off in real terms . |
| 10 | He started off in 1962 fronting the satirical show That Was The Week That Was and later made headlines for his hard-hitting interview with impeached president Richard Nixon . |
| 11 | While the Association will never pursue members with the determination of a Time-Share salesperson , it does n't like to lose members , particularly those who are just too forgetful to get subscriptions off in good time . |
| 12 | NICK FALDO and Severiano Ballesteros both signed off in good heart from the Freeport-McMoran Classic at English Turn yesterday , each having final rounds of 69 to ensure top 10 finishes as they head for Augusta and the Masters . |
| 13 | Remember to get requisitions off in good time after your investigation . |
| 14 | Lotus 's engineering consultancy began to take off in 1981 under Rudd 's guidance . |
| 15 | The provision of horses was unexpected , but curiously cheering , because it seemed to show that the giants were sending Floy and Snodgrass off in reasonable style , as if they expected them to return . |
| 16 | Every time his plane touched down at Nice airport and he saw palm trees and tanned porters in white , short-sleeved shirts , Adam enjoyed afresh the glamour of a life where one stepped on to a plane in bleak winter weather and shortly afterwards stepped off in warm sunshine . |
| 17 | Provided the provisional calculations are reliable ( which is a topic for another day ) , farmers can be forgiven for some confusion in any debate about whether they were really better off in 1992 than in 1991 and whether they ‘ felt ’ better off ! |
| 18 | The horse jumped forward a few paces with his limbs bunched up and then , holding himself for a brief moment in a static rear , galloped off in sheer terror down the path . |
| 19 | Sky TV 's broadcast put the whole incident in the public eye , even though Goulding was formally cited after the Disciplinary Committee watched a tape of the game last Thursday when dealing with two men sent off in that match . |
| 20 | Further off in that direction , on the site of the modern village of Makroteichos , there were Minoan houses and traces of Minoan houses have been found as far north as Palaiomilo , some 600 metres north of the temple precinct : beyond this area was the northern cemetery of Zafer Papoura . |
| 21 | There 's no value in it , do n't start it off in that position as though there 's an integral in it , all the |
| 22 | I thought you 'd taken off in that spaceship of yours . ’ |
| 23 | Well it could start off in that . |
| 24 | Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area . |
| 25 | Morpurgo precious near writing us both off in that bloody car crash . |
| 26 | I saw the way you had to fight him off in that first dance — the bastard 's hands were everywhere ! ’ |
| 27 | He realised this would be Springfield 's cordon of beaters driving the escaping sect heavies towards the highway , and he moved off in that direction himself . |
| 28 | if we can kick things off in that , er from that sphere . |
| 29 | Is there any way the gun could then go off in that ? |
| 30 | Well he does get killed off in that does n't he . |