Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flight originated at Navy Dallas , Grand Prairie , Texas , for an IFR cross-country flight to Washington , D.C. The flight crew could not rotate the aircraft for lift off during the takeoff roll on Runway 17 , 8,000 feet in length . |
| 2 | Unlike the demands for time off from the farm , which is normally at short notice , the request for release for training courses could be made well in advance . |
| 3 | ‘ On a 500 you 're really only washing a bit of speed off with the front . |
| 4 | A crash of musketry off to the right flank betrayed that the farms to the west were under attack , but here in the centre , where the road led enticingly to the crossroads , the enemy was still hidden . |
| 5 | There do exist ways of identifying the boundaries of stretches of discourse which set one chunk of discourse off from the rest . |
| 6 | These do not seem like promising beginnings : English was merely to be an extra accomplishment for young middle-class women — a ‘ convenient sort of non-subject to palm off on the ladies ’ as Eagleton puts it ; and a substitute for a classical education for the discontented working classes . |