Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] off in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some have even kept their tattoos hidden from their children and have been reluctant to explain why they will not peel off in the sun . ’ |
| 2 | It does have the advantage of the computer not going off in the heat of the moment and hurting some innocent bank clerk , though . ’ |
| 3 | It is useful to quote the size of the repeat when ordering fabric for curtains or blinds so that you do not cut off in the middle of a formalized pattern . |
| 4 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 5 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 6 | ‘ You poor thing , ’ said Moynihan , promptly jogging off in the direction of Hove . |
| 7 | Well , they always moved off in the end , though they often stayed a while , as this one did , whistling through their teeth , like standup comics about to risk another joke . |
| 8 | Shorter wavelengths are felt by us as heat , and are also given off in the warmth of our bodies . |
| 9 | A firebomb also went off in the Plaza shopping centre in Oxford Street , London , on Wednesday morning . |
| 10 | Given the general distrust of authority amongst the user population and the problems encountered in obtaining treatment and successfully coming off in the community , there is obviously a need for a service which is seen by users to be impartial . |
| 11 | The two submarines which had lain alongside Omega at the start of her watch now stood off in the loch , still as two sentries , awaiting Taureg 's arrival , and she wondered how any man could volunteer to serve in such a craft ; how he could live in quarters so cramped , with no privacy at all . |
| 12 | it does n't fall off in the soup , it never falls off , it 's only the ones you see on the advertisements that fall off . |
| 13 | Workers observing it and about to leave on their own foraging , immediately fly off in the direction indicated . |
| 14 | I stick on my coat and jam the hat on so it wo n't come off in the wind . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | The 25-year-old Dublin soldier had been virtually written off in the welterweight division . |
| 17 | Quite coherent and certain he saw his dad make a phone call from the instrument in the hall and then drive off in the car . |
| 18 | ‘ Mick sometimes takes off in the wagon , but he 's only too pleased to get back to Chigwell . |
| 19 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 20 | Scunthorpe 's Stevenson was cautioned and then sent off in the space of 60 seconds , and while Burnley tried to take advantage the visiting 10 seemed as vulnerable as green bottles . |
| 21 | The Fellow , a comfortable winner from Docklands Express in last year 's King George and twice touched off in the Gold Cup , has apparently thrived since finishing third in last month 's Hennessy . |
| 22 | Yeah , I worked with a voluntary group for a while and I remember helping one lady go through , she was raped , and go through the courts , and all her past life was brought up , I mean I was so upset for her and yet the fact that he had actually raped twice before was n't brought up , but her past life was brought up and the man actually got off in the end because she just could not cope with being on the stand and dealing with it all and it was just so terrible that , that , that the , the ina , |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Calm and svelte , stealthy as a cat in his movements , he seemed to approach sex as a form of research , favouring techniques of foreplay so subtle and prolonged that Robyn occasionally dozed off in the middle of them , and would wake with a guilty start to find him still crouched studiously over her body , fingering it like a box of index cards . |