Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] off [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy .
2 yeah but they 've got fucking , just fuck off with the dust
3 ( The detection of lines , hooks and resistance is probably the reason why most other fish usually bolt off with the bait . )
4 I , I mean you usually start off with the boy everybody has to start at the bottom , .
5 Well that , that 's what I 'm saying is that , I think what we have to start doing and I 'm not suggesting you 're not doing , but I just want to talk about this in , before we practically kick off on the course proper , I think what , I mean that comes off , and then the oil starts dripping out of it , and the minute the oil starts dripping out , then we become quite a good artist are n't we ?
6 Now get off at the centre , just in
7 Many pilots quite unwittingly take off with the stick right back , not realising that if the launch fails when they have just left the ground , an accident will be inevitable .
8 Workers observing it and about to leave on their own foraging , immediately fly off in the direction indicated .
9 Oliver was close behind as she ran towards the pedlar , then cut off to the side .
10 There were plenty of Garda around , and there ought to have been plenty more , as I saw a group of wild children steal chocolates from a shop and then run off down the road .
11 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 .
12 A nurse will bring a white-wrapped bundle which I shall cursorily inspect for gender , then pack off to the nursery for six years .
13 Champion let Aldaniti take the last fence in his own time and then set off up the run-in which the jockey later described as ‘ the loneliest place in the world ’ .
14 I nip down to Engineering and borrow a remote ( must keep tabs on things in London ) , then set off for the circus .
15 We ate a hearty breakfast and then set off for the moor .
16 I went home to the cottage , had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office .
17 ‘ By making your legs do the work instead of your poor over-used mouth , ’ he returned drily , then set off across the field before she could reply .
18 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 .
19 Next morning we again set off beside the river .
20 Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days .
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