Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , at 7pm , I set off on the drive south to San Francisco . |
| 2 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 3 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |
| 4 | Sedum spectabile " Autumn Joy " has boldly fleshy shoots with butterfly — attracting pink flowers in late summer which dry off on the plant to orange/brown heads useful for winter decorations . |
| 5 | Oranges that are to be peeled and eaten should also be washed , because the fungicide is contained in a wax layer which comes off on the hands during peeling and then contaminates the fruit . |
| 6 | I 've encountered Arena -reading Young Conservatives who get off on The Smiths and Sex Pistols : I knew a girl whose favourite group is The Jam but who claims to be apolitical and whose one great desire in life is a Mercedes . |
| 7 | Yeah you 're going on as if , you started off on the fact that you do n't think we 've got any fear of them cos their kids are running round on the street and now all of sudden you say we have because they 've got nuclear weapons you say . |
| 8 | Of the 133 RAF aircrew who took off on the night of May 16 , 56 failed to return . |
| 9 | For example : A : You start off on the ring road … |
| 10 | So you start off on the basis that you will be entitled to a new lease under the 1954 Act provided you take the necessary steps within the time scale set out in the Act . |
| 11 | Did you get off on the energy of that fantastic place ? |
| 12 | Did you get off on the energy of that fantastic place ? |
| 13 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
| 14 | And then Saturday , it meant they got off on the Sunday and the Monday , they got their long weekend you see , when they reached the Saturday . |
| 15 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 16 | He rides off on the bicycle , my bicycle , which is too small for him . |
| 17 | He denied UI would be doing this to appease SunSoft and others reportedly unhappy about the situation , and refuted suggestions that SunSoft wants UI 's commitment to use other suppliers and non-USL technologies as a pre-requisite for it signing off on the ABI effort . |
| 18 | He volunteered and bravely sat in the middle of the sales office to have it shaved off on the day . |
| 19 | At the age of only nine , he set off on the London coach , and said a sudden and bewildered farewell both to his family and to his Devon childhood . |
| 20 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |