Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] off [prep] [art] [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 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 3 | Just piss off to a nightclub , dear , come back in the wee small hours . |
| 4 | yeah but they 've got fucking , just fuck off with the dust |
| 5 | You do n't have to remember any words or facts or anything difficult like that — you just go off in a sort of coma and think how wonderful you are . |
| 6 | Before I go to the supermarket , I usually stop off for a drink ; I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by . |
| 7 | ( The detection of lines , hooks and resistance is probably the reason why most other fish usually bolt off with the bait . ) |
| 8 | I , I mean you usually start off with the boy everybody has to start at the bottom , . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Most simply give themselves up , and , in the case of those who have done no more than poach the odd buck for a little bushmeat , are often let off with a caution . |
| 11 | Now get off at the centre , just in |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Workers observing it and about to leave on their own foraging , immediately fly off in the direction indicated . |
| 14 | He saw it break its flight over a dell between the dunes , soar vertically and then head off at an angle . |
| 15 | ‘ My mother will probably have a very genteel fit of hysteria , and my father will mutter something about it being a ‘ damn shame ’ and your not being ‘ the right kind of girl ’ , and then stomp off for a game of golf . |
| 16 | Oliver was close behind as she ran towards the pedlar , then cut off to the side . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I always join one shoulder seam before cutting out the front and back sections , then finish off with a sandwich neck-band that will stretch and look good . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A nurse will bring a white-wrapped bundle which I shall cursorily inspect for gender , then pack off to the nursery for six years . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | I nip down to Engineering and borrow a remote ( must keep tabs on things in London ) , then set off for the circus . |
| 23 | We ate a hearty breakfast and then set off for the moor . |
| 24 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
| 25 | I went home to the cottage , had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They then tail off to a level which , for the majority of the manual working population , is less than that enjoyed in their early twenties . |
| 29 | Next morning we again set off beside the river . |
| 30 | 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 . |