Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] off [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For example , my 10-year-old cupressus was busy stifling a display of daffodils , nicely set off by purple aubrieta . |
| 4 | I think we 'd better switch off at this stage . |
| 5 | I decided doubles was getting short-shrifted so went off on that tangent . |
| 6 | In Aquitaine , between 1451 and 1453 , French armies did indeed meet with resistance : but the fact remains that the battles of Formigny ( 1450 ) and Castillon ( 1453 ) only finished off in dramatic fashion processes which were all but complete when the opposing armies met . |
| 7 | Yeah I was really attracted to him but I just could not speak to him , it was awful , and like there used to be awful pauses and you 'd just go er right we 'd better get off with each other again because you ca n't bear the silence , it 's too uncomfortable so you used to , and then you go oh shit better get off with him again , it 's awful , he 's and he used to have such a , no personality at all . |
| 8 | I dug the idea of being free enough to just goof off from incessant maths homework . |
| 9 | The other alternative is just to go off in that corner over there . |
| 10 | So Western experts were soon jetting off to poor countries to run surveys and design massive family planning programmes . |
| 11 | It could stop the erosion of rights catalogued throughout this book , and for this reason such a document needs to be considered seriously by the socialist opposition in Britain , and not written off as mere attempts at electoral reform when instead it should be developing a radical heart along democratic socialist lines . |
| 12 | Just finishing off on electrical energy . |
| 13 | India was largely cut off for long periods , and its under-developed arms and textile industries were required to supply substantial quantities of ammunition and tents to British forces in the Middle and Far East . |
| 14 | Losing Out has argued that , since 1979 , a minority of the population has been progressively cut off from other people on low income , let alone those on average or high incomes . |
| 15 | This is normally run off with other effluents without difficulty , but care may be needed if the waste water contains soap , because insoluble lime soap may precipitate in the drains and cause blockages . |
| 16 | The influence had already rubbed off on former team-mate Ally McCoist , who was dropped from a vital old firm derby in 1991 for going on a prohibited trip to the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 17 | This does n't always work and older beginners are soon put off by this attitude . |
| 18 | Five five twelfths cos we started off with six twelfths take one twelfth away start off with six pigs and take one pig away got five pigs . |
| 19 | From inside the room it must have looked like he was just hopping off into empty space , say goodbye to Buck Rogers , a suicide leap over a thirty-foot drop . |
| 20 | — which begins and ends with his soliloquies ; and V.vii. , where he is finally chased off by another bastard ) . |
| 21 | It did n't just start off with human beings , they s started in sectors and it spread . |
| 22 | Along Downing Street ( which was not railed off in those days ) and on the thresholds of other public buildings , pickets from the four main Civil Service trade unions were noisily demonstrating their disdain for the authority of a Labour government that was already on the skids . |
| 23 | Suddenly , somewhere off to the rear , came an yell of alarm and the roar of a shotgun going off , followed by three more blasting off in quick succession . |
| 24 | She was calm , her breathing even , she had possibly dozed off at some time , a thought she found quite odd . |
| 25 | It can also spread to the neck , arm or jaw and does n't usually ease off for several hours . |
| 26 | I expect SHe hardly gets off on this stuff . |
| 27 | For basic shapes though , and it is better always to start off at that level , the paper pattern is the right approach . |
| 28 | And then when he died and she followed him so soon , you see , I was at once cut off from all example of domestic life between the sexes . |
| 29 | She 's totally cut off from other adults during the day , and when her husband comes home in the evening , all he wants is telly and early bed … . ’ |
| 30 | You do n't usually go off with strange women like that . ’ |