Example sentences of "[noun] off [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 2 | The unraced Rockawhile , Henry Cecil 's first runner of the 1992 Flat season , can get the Newmarket trainer off to a flying start in the Bluebell Fillies ' Stakes ( 4.30 ) . |
| 3 | Having done everything in your tank preparations to avoid new tank syndrome , you can still set in motion some of the attendant problems if you start your new stock off on the wrong fin . |
| 4 | Although Dragon is only about half the size of Drayton Asia , its superior investment performance has got the bid off to a good start . |
| 5 | ‘ If he blows his mouth off before the Wee GP , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm for castration . |
| 6 | She dropped a sulky David off at the Grand Hotel . |
| 7 | At this year 's Reading Festival , Smashing Pumpkins came in slightly below par , perhaps due to the rigours of touring , but , a few nights before , in the more intimate setting of Newcastle 's Riverside , they clean blew the roof off with an energetic gig that showed that some members had an appreciation of heavy metal but knew how to drag it breathing heavily into the '90s . |
| 8 | " They 're always like that , gassing their heads off in a public shop . |
| 9 | You can never be too early starting your kids off on the right foot — in fact , it 's essential |
| 10 | The eastern bank between Chepstow and Monmouth gets Offa 's Dyke walkers off to a flying start — there 's superb walking high above the river with sensational views . |
| 11 | DeFreitas and Malcolm finished Pakistan off with the new ball , Botham bagging his 120th catch and spoiling his chance to go ahead of Cowdrey when Waqar ( 0 ) edged Lewis . |
| 12 | The easiest cure is to knock the snow off with a regular tap with the axe shaft . |
| 13 | Entering the room in a confident and relaxed manner is very important for getting the interview off to a good start . |
| 14 | In defence of the faith , in defence of his crown , he had no choice but to stand rigidly upon the law , but every cutting off of the least citizen was a maiming of his own nation and his own body , and he found no remedy against the grief and horror into which his own procedures cast him . |
| 15 | The Bush Administration sent the whole issue off to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) in December last year . |
| 16 | We will discover whether there is a real commitment or whether it is simply words which they hope that the Scottish public will forget were ever uttered so that in the fullness of time they can shunt the companies off to the private sector to do with them as it will . |
| 17 | IRELAND 'S defending featherweight champion , Paul Griffin , got his European championship campaign off to a winning start in Bursa , Turkey last night with a hard fought 6–5 win over Lazlo Bagnar of Hungry . |
| 18 | The other frustration of watching on TV is hearing the low rumble of chatter , unexplained laughter , heckles and shouts , like the noises off in a Russian drama , but being unable to see the source . |
| 19 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |
| 20 | McFarland and Adams got the visitors off to a good start putting on 35 for the first wicket . |
| 21 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 22 | The players will be keen to get their season on the East Region circuit off to a good start in the 36 hole Senate Charity Open which starts tomorrow , and the man they will all be out to beat is European Tour regular Paul Curry . |
| 23 | Another letter in The Times , from Sir Robert Robinson , drew attention to Florey 's work and set enquirers off on a new tack to Oxford , but their journeys turned out to be unrewarding . |
| 24 | This , thanks to the trainers and N.D.O. , is all in the pipeline , with Taster Days and leaflets distributed to get a new training course off to a good start in Cambridge , this September . |
| 25 | Never wipe Rosie and Jim off for a long time . |
| 26 | By 1980 , with the IPC ‘ H ’ line to Haifa long since closed , there remained the 1.4 million b/d ‘ T ’ line to Tripoli on the Lebanese coast , with its branch off to the Syrian port at Banias . |
| 27 | Scamp maybe said something to himself then , like ‘ Damn ’ or even ‘ Blast ’ , the sort of thing you would say to yourself when you 'd just missed blowing a policeman 's goolies off with an illegal weapon . |
| 28 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 29 | Even before kick-off Rangers got the afternoon off to an unexpected start . |
| 30 | Even before kick-off Rangers got the afternoon off to an unexpected start . |