Example sentences of "[verb] off in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trains time her life , crashing through fitful dreams at night , slackening off in the early hours . |
| 2 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 3 | We started off in the old days , just tuning the top string down to D. It 's funny , but we used to do that before we 'd tune the bottom ones down . |
| 4 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 5 | Could I also ask a question which you might be completely clear on , but I 'm not , when we do back checks on files and make sure they are all up to date and so on , we come across maybe a research approval which has n't been signed off in the right places , how far back in time do we need to get that signed off . |
| 6 | You start off in the dank dungeons and your aim is to work your way to the top . |
| 7 | Being sent off in the Metropolitan Police five-a-sides |
| 8 | Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday . |