Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] [art] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon John Sinclair is Gregory , a gangling , amiable misfit who falls in love with Dee Hepburn but eventually cops off with the infinitely more desirable Clare Grogan on a balmy evening in East Kilbride — which looks like heaven . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , RUC 's bid to capture one of the few trophies to have eluded them in junior soccer got off to a much more convincing start as they trounced Harland and Wolff Welders in the first round of the cup competition . |
| 3 | The expense of necessary heating and drying is not only considerable , but is ultimately hopeless — it is not a tax which in any way augments a person 's living standards , but , like protection money , merely staves off for a little longer an absolute loss . |
| 4 | Heralded by a deafening midnight firework display and a cacophony of ships ’ hooters and truck horns , P&O 's Pride of Kent , the first ferry arrival of the New Year , docked in the port 's Number Two berth and the first trucks rolled off onto the otherwise virtually empty quayside . |
| 5 | It was n't until dawn that she finally drifted off into an all too brief and fitful sleep . |
| 6 | So if we hear any screeching noises or bells , which er do n't turn off after a very very short period of time , we are to er make our way in an orderly fashion to the er base of the staircase of the fire escape , following the fire escape er signs . |
| 7 | Edward , resentful , set off in an even more dour frame of mind than usual . |