Example sentences of "off in this " in BNC.

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1 Peter Reid , the Manchester City manager , yesterday tried to take some of the heat out of the aftermath of the derby by defending Pointon , who became the first player to be sent off in this series of fixtures since 1974 .
2 A harem owner may have several sets of daughters creamed off in this way .
3 That Kevin is certainly growing into a fine young man , he has been working with his shirt off in this weather and you can see he is going to be just as much an athlete as his father was .
4 The Liverpool manager was seething with rage after his defender David Burrows was carried off in this Coca-Cola Cup tie with a severe knee injury that will keep him out for at least three months .
5 The traditional concept of religion as insurance on the next world which might or not pay off in this one is exactly reversed .
6 Knitters who have not practised the partial shaping may be casting off one stitch at a time as they were first taught to do or casting off in this way to retain a firm shoulder seam .
7 These doubts , hard to pin down , because reason easily disposed of them all , crystallised around the fact that Comrade Andrew too often smelled of drink ; she could not bring herself to criticise him for his partiality to the goose-girl , because she had learned so long ago and so thoroughly simply to switch off in this area .
8 But it 's never really taken off in this country !
9 Now the sport the Americans call their summer game … baseball is beginning to take off in this country … the city of Gloucester has just launched its own team … the Meteors …
10 The gunmen made off in this VW Polo .
11 The gunmen made off in this VW Polo .
12 ‘ I told the police I would take them off in this country , but that I could n't give confirmation I would n't use them abroad . ’
13 So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction
14 Jeremy , I , I said it was a , a particularly bad problem , er we , we are worse off in this area for homelessness that a lot of other places are n't we ?
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