Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] off [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 2 | Bradshaw himself got picked off by a thirty-footer and lost his board . |
| 3 | Now you 'll see him in a moment , he this guy driving he wants to go off on a slip road . |
| 4 | PETER Kennedy 's tongue-in-cheek shot at his latest creation , ‘ The Widow or Bust ’ , has come off with a bang at the Arts Theatre this week . |
| 5 | Trouble yeah , trouble I got put off for a fortnight , on the dole , then he , I was on the dole for a week and er he cos at that time you had to appear in front of the erm , what they call the Court of Referees at the Labour Exchange , that was their Committee . |
| 6 | United got off to a flyer with Richard Hill giving them a lead after just eight minutes . |
| 7 | The Tema Russo Finale can hardly be said to go off like a rocket either . |
| 8 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 9 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 10 | It would n't be so bad if he 'd gone off with a beauty , but I 'm damned if I 'll form part of a collection which includes someone bandy . ’ |
| 11 | I mean , if he 'd gone off with a humped-back , three legged dwarf I would have felt pretty unattractive . |
| 12 | When the end of a glass rod is heated in a flame the glass softens and tends to round off into a blob because surface tension remains active long after permanent mechanical resistance to deformation has disappeared . |
| 13 | When told to sod off by a man well over six feet tall , about fourteen stones in weight , with a four-iron in his hand , and known to be of uncertain temperament , even the most hardened reporter will do just that . |
| 14 | It tends to die off after a year unless the side shoots are removed . |
| 15 | now we 're going to finish off with a sport that enjoys itself in the summer … grass track racing … thousands were out over the weekend to watch the midland finals in Worcestershire |
| 16 | Where the line of stones breaks , lines of energy could be detected moving off at a tangent . |
| 17 | On the bedside table , he was in the act of placing a Bible , so that he may have dropped off into a doze while reading it . |
| 18 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 19 | Experts said that if the bombs had penetrated any part of the cigar-shaped cylinders they would have gone off like a rocket , smashing into nearby homes . |
| 20 | Something must have come up , and she must have gone off in a hurry . |
| 21 | The universe would have started off with a period of exponential or " inflationary " expansion in which it would have increased its size by a very large factor . |
| 22 | And if I had to play them today , I 'd have to get off in a room with a record player , probably for a couple of hours and learn them . ’ |
| 23 | DAVID Rocastle aims to get off to a flier with Leeds today by chalking up a hat-trick in the Makita Tournament . |
| 24 | ROS : You march in here without so much as a by your leave and expect me to take very lunatic you try to pass off with a lot of unsubstantiated |
| 25 | Secondly , a dear friend of mine has gone wandering off with a person I 'm fairly sure is addicted to a very nasty personality altering drug . |
| 26 | lets finish off with a roundup of the rest of the news … starting over at swindon speedway … the robins will be singing … roaring again this season … the team has been re-instated to division one |
| 27 | ‘ But Maurin had gone roaring off in a taxi and I 'd had to find the bus stop and so I did n't seriously expect to . |
| 28 | Somebody or something seemed to be trying to speak to her but she felt cut off like a prisoner in a sound-proof box . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'll get flung off in a minute , but keep it up as long as possible . ’ |