Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He staggered off towards a nearby Black Maria ( preferring , at this point , arrest to sudden death ) , jumped in the back and was greeted by one of the officers with the words ‘ fascist scum ’ and a ‘ boot in the face ’ . |
| 2 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 3 | As she moved off with the other mounted followers , Artemis determined that if her father thought it was time for her to stop riding ponies and learn to hunt on a horse , then so be it . |
| 4 | Then the line of vehicles pulled away one by one , forming a loose convoy as they moved off along the deserted main street , heading for the edge of town . |
| 5 | At this point an Irishman among the raiders unaccountably chose to dash off through the still sleeping streets to raise the alarm . |
| 6 | An area of cleared moor was cordoned off with a wind-powered electric fence to allow heather regrowth , a method which could be repeated elsewhere ; next year 's plans for the estate , five miles north of Pateley Bridge , include protecting and encouraging the spread of bilberry , the indigenous upland plant which disappeared from large tracts of moor when bracken moved in . |
| 7 | Then to the accompanying curious twitch of a dozen net curtains , and a wave and smile from Josey and Charlie , they were gliding off down the narrow little street , rather like , Lisa thought , a ship gliding across water . |
| 8 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 9 | At Ullapool the midday early November sun was low in the sky , white gold fanning down into the sea beyond Scoraig peninsula ; An Teallach hid its snow caps , cut off by a cool indigo-grey cloud . |
| 10 | Mr Hodge remembered the seas had been very rough as the crew attempted to rescue the couple , who had been surprised and cut off by a fast moving tide at Huntcliff . |
| 11 | Cut off from the only social contact and emotional support he had known , he went downhill and ended up being arrested for stealing . |
| 12 | On her lonely perch , cut off from the amiable mindless warmth of the mob , Jess shifted , taking a cautious step back towards the edge of the counter . |
| 13 | Divested of their natural homes and hunting grounds , cut off from the renewable natural resources on which they depended , observing the continuing slaughter by visitors licensed to kill and construct , and disinherited from the financial or other benefits of these exercises , they became party to the most misguided and cynical game this century : the over-exploitation and destruction of the natural environment for the benefit of a few . |
| 14 | In my discussions with the police , it was one of the buildings we offered them , and I went with erm , the new inspector to look at that , and I still said they were somewhat put off by the cold austere sort of feeling of the place . |
| 15 | Therefore , under SSAP 24 the shortfall of £30m would be written off over the average remaining service life of the employees in the scheme . |
| 16 | He now travelled in disguise from St Malo on 18 December 1715 , to Dunkirk , from where , after a six-week wait , he was at last able to set off on a small eight-gun 200-tonner , for Scotland . |
| 17 | CREAMY : Cool off with a Vivoli special |
| 18 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 19 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 20 | We have already encountered Baden-Powell in his romantic — progressive mode of address , but before the First World War he was more usually to be found singing a different tune : Here he is again , sounding off to the Royal United Services Institute in 1911 , in a typical Edwardian Tory response to the Liberal government 's programme of welfare reforms : |
| 21 | They wend off across the dully shining floor of the ballroom , heading approximately for the stairs . |
| 22 | There was a healthy balance for nineteen ninety three and this was mainly due to members supporting raffles and the fact that we have not put the show stand off at the British Aquarist Festival for a couple of years . |
| 23 | Shortly afterwards Cinzia turned off along an unpaved minor road . |
| 24 | This was sparked off by a federal Collective State Presidency order on Jan. 9 , apparently aimed principally at republican-controlled forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which required that all " unauthorized " armed units should surrender their arms within 10 days to the JNA . |
| 25 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 26 | But once his novelty value had worn off among the blasé Viennese , his audiences declined , while jealousy and court intrigue combined to deny him the court appointments and lucrative commissions he so desperately needed . |
| 27 | He stood up , flexed his powerful shoulders and having pulled on a jerkin and breeches , went through to the kitchen , ate a hunk of fresh-baked bread and walked off down the steep narrow hill that led between stone cottages to Mother Russell 's alehouse , where the Pascoe girls earned their living . |
| 28 | Tomorrow 's top temperatures , 10 Celsius , 50 Fahrenheit , but it will drop off to a cool 7 celsius , 45 Fahrenheit , accompanied by quite a strong north westerly wind . |
| 29 | So we set off down the steep easterly flank of the mountain , alongside a spectacular waterfall that incredibly was still partially frozen in June . |
| 30 | Within ten minutes the shark was visible but it then set off on a strong deep dive taking 100 yards of line despite a heavy drag setting . |