Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faithful readers will recall that , despite being bottom of the Banks Group Northern Youth League , the lads had played the entire season without a booking or sending off until the catastrophic 82nd minute of the final game . |
| 2 | Rather than starting off with a blank sheet towards all class members , it may be that because of natural assertiveness , boys dictate a particular kind of response from teachers , quite independently of the details of the situation . |
| 3 | And in fact prices would seem now to be levelling off somewhat throughout the country , slowing down in the North and levelling off at the current levels in the South . |
| 4 | Interested nurses may be invited to an informal gathering over coffee , or to a structured recruitment day addressed by speakers and rounding off with an open session devoted to local job vacancies . |
| 5 | Up to 50 images can be stored at once and if that is not enough , you can always transfer the images to an Apple Powerbook to make more space — a bit of a culture shock for anyone used to filling up a camera bag with film and dashing off to the nearest photo lab . |
| 6 | Basinger evaded reporters and cameramen as she left the courthouse Wednesday , leaving by a sidedoor and rushing off in a black sedan . |
| 7 | But still it is very carefully structured with a setting verse , a narrative verse and finishing off with a reflective verse and 10 syllables in each line and Futility has the same feeling of careful planning and construction . |
| 8 | In a kind of skipping movement he shifts his weight to the forward , leading right leg , scooping the left foot in front of the right knee and jumping off with the right leg so that it passes the left foot again . |
| 9 | The Keraing had told us that in the 1950s a military scouting party from Makassar had angered the village by entering the caves with special equipment and making off with a good deal of valuable porcelain — indicating it had also been used as a burial-chamber by early visiting Chinese mariners . |
| 10 | There had also been recent newspaper reports of Bugis prahus putting into the atolls east of Celebes , burning the villages to the ground , and making off with the whole year 's harvest of copra the oil-bearing coconut husks — which was the inhabitants ' sole source of income . |
| 11 | We were there to witness William getting to grips with his brand-new Jet Ski ; this process seemed to consist largely of getting on , powering away , trying to turn too fast and falling off in an extravagant splash . |