Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] off [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Savanna animals cool off with a kind of organic radiator by evaporating water from the moist linings of the nasal chambers . |
| 2 | The devout and those with a full itinerary hurry off to the Abbey as the bell tolls for communion . |
| 3 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 4 | 156 cars set off on the rally on Sunday . |
| 5 | For example , this is a passage of interpretive description of a Van Gogh self-portrait : ‘ … his emaciated , luminous head with its burning eyes set off against a whirlpool of darkness . |
| 6 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 7 | Sometimes quite large ‘ solid ’ blocks break off from the flow , with the same kind of clean fracture , and then , since they are still very hot , continue to flow slightly ! |
| 8 | The huge ammunition wagons set off for the crossroads , their massive iron-rimmed wheels digging great gouges into the road 's surface . |
| 9 | and Hereford are back in action tomorrow night … they 're playing Torquay at home in the Coca Cola cup … while Swindon kick off at the County Ground against Oldham on Wednesday … |
| 10 | and Hereford are back in action tomorrow night … they 're playing Torquay at home in the Coca Cola cup … while Swindon kick off at the County Ground against Oldham on Wednesday … |
| 11 | People pushed and shoved , stared at his madder lake suit , trousers cut off at the knee . |
| 12 | The two groups set off across the desert westwards towards Ghadames . |
| 13 | Five minutes after letting the freelined bait drift off in the tide the big shark struck . |
| 14 | He drew him another map and watched Blunset wander off into the darkness . |
| 15 | And aeroplanes take off without a sound |
| 16 | So that when they sit facing each other on either side of their fire-place , both grins take off in the direction of the mantelpiece , as if drawn by the draught . |
| 17 | Jeez , it looks like all the players and wives nip off down the bank for a quick gas up north . |
| 18 | Tolkien was not by any means cut off from the mainstream of English poetry , though the qualities he valued were not surprise , the mot juste , verbal complexity , but rather a slow probing of the familiar . |
| 19 | It was the material that first started Crystal Clear off as a company . |
| 20 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 21 | ALDWYCH Group staff set off on a treasure hunt — only to find they had to visit 15 pubs en route ! |
| 22 | When people set off in a boat to prove whether the Earth was round , they did not fall off so that proves that the Earth is flat , but people just say it is round . |
| 23 | It happened shortly after 500 athletes set off on the Rowntree Athletic Club 's 10-mile road race at the weekend . |
| 24 | A nearly full complement of 673 passengers cast off from the city dock this day , dark with continuous rain . |
| 25 | Sales take off for the jet lag store |
| 26 | Harriers take off around the clock from hastily constructed hides . |
| 27 | Swindon Robins take off at the Abbey Stadium against Exeter … |
| 28 | Act 2 is the object of loud acclaim as the curtain falls , but when Minnie and Dick ride off into the sunset at the end of the opera it seems that the audience has melted away too , and the final ‘ addios ’ fall into silence and emptiness . |
| 29 | Seismic stratigraphy is a technique whereby seismic waves generated by.small explosions set off at the surface are reflected or refracted from discontinuities in the underlying sediments which represent changes in sediment properties . |
| 30 | Almost as hard to credit , the figure for the number of nuclear explosions set off by the French in the Pacific since 1975 was said to be 52 . |