Example sentences of "[verb] off in the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave Weatherley strips off in the line of duty to put seven seriously warm bags to the test . |
| 2 | He then grabbed all her feathers and threw them in the gutter before storming off in the direction of the Black Bull . |
| 3 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |
| 4 | He headed off in the direction of the kitchen , and she made a feeble effort to straighten her leg , wincing in pain . |
| 5 | We moved off in the direction of the crossroads , the scene of yesterday 's action . |
| 6 | He touched the American 's elbow and moved off in the direction of a single Ming vase standing on a pedestal nearby . |
| 7 | Each of these alter egos is unaware of the others , so that he is untroubled by his derivation from the common ancestor he unwittingly shares with the many other Polkinghornes who branched off in the course of some quantum mechanical act of measurement . |
| 8 | He gave my passport to the Corporal who put it into his pocket , then we got into the car and drove off in the direction of Lille . |
| 9 | U-turning , he drove off in the direction of the distant city , without so much as another backward glance . |
| 10 | Meetings could be banned and the townships sealed off in the event of new disturbances . |
| 11 | I touched my cap and strolled off in the direction of the Old Kent Road . |
| 12 | The goodwill was fully written off in the year of acquisition and has been excluded from the calculation of profit on disposal ( see note 28 ) . |
| 13 | Detectives believe the thieves made off in the direction of Barnwell Place and are eager to hear from anyone who might have seen them . |
| 14 | They squelched off in the direction of Geoffrey 's rooms and a bottle of Rémy Martin . |
| 15 | Shorter wavelengths are felt by us as heat , and are also given off in the warmth of our bodies . |
| 16 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 17 | ‘ You poor thing , ’ said Moynihan , promptly jogging off in the direction of Hove . |
| 18 | What Ken , as technically-minded as ever , did n't notice was that all the clocks had been set to go off in the middle of the night — which , needless to say , they all did . |
| 19 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 20 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |
| 21 | Compositional autonomy is closed off in the sphere of avant-garde negation , while commodity musical production takes on an increasingly standardized character , coupling formula and fetishized effect in both ‘ serious ’ and ‘ popular ’ markets . |
| 22 | It does have the advantage of the computer not going off in the heat of the moment and hurting some innocent bank clerk , though . ’ |
| 23 | Sparked off in the city of Timisoara by Lazlo Tokes , a Hungarian priest , the uprising spread to Bucharest and triggered the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime ending 40 years of communist rule . |
| 24 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 25 | He likes these contacts with the more substantial world and happily hurries off in the direction of his stationery shop and fax bureau , where I know he will encounter many difficulties . |
| 26 | The first solo , tabbed last month , was in the key of E. This second solo takes off in the key of F , although the two-note pickup is played over the last beat of the final bar of E. |
| 27 | ‘ You 're not fucking likely to get that ! were Sid 's last words as he walked off in the direction of the latrine . |
| 28 | ‘ Have a nice time , and behave yourselves , ’ he concluded , and walked off in the direction of the garden . |
| 29 | So , not wanting to hurt Sam any more for this ill-thought-out gesture of his , she broke his grip on her wrist and , turning on her heel , walked off in the direction of Trouville . |
| 30 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |