Example sentences of "[verb] off at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 2 | The Government can not be unaware that women are frightened to travel alone at night in isolated places , to wait in bus depots where no staff are present , or to be dropped off at bus-rail links at isolated railway stations where there is no one to guard them against possible danger . |
| 3 | It starts off at zero voltage at |
| 4 | He loaded farmhands , ladders , rope and planks into a small lorry , and drove off at top speed towards Windmill Hill , Angela in the seat beside him . |
| 5 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 6 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 7 | The encounter can break off at any stage in the process of escalation . |
| 8 | Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building . |
| 9 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 10 | She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed . |
| 11 | Now Robson 's jeered off at Sporting Lisbon for losing a UEFA Cup tie . |
| 12 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 13 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 14 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
| 15 | I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place . |
| 16 | Cara nodded and smiled at the pork butcher as she passed him by , being fond of the pies he would sometimes sell off at half price before closing his shop on a Saturday night . |
| 17 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 18 | On the new album , Bring it on Home to Me stands out : mean Tyneside vocals and Irish pipes gloriously underpin the moody soul structures of Sam Cooke 's classic , the pipes taking off at one point as if on a Claptonesque guitar solo . |
| 19 | Any information the client is interested in can be printed off at any stage during the search . |
| 20 | But my idea would be to meander up and down the country , stopping off at interesting towns like this . |
| 21 | She was pissed off at missing Triste at the bar , but there would be other jobs . |
| 22 | When the same thing is attempted deliberately , however , one turn is usually enough to send the model shooting off at great speed in some totally unexpected direction ! |