Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could follow my example and hitchhike out of Miami airport , but only if you 're prepared to risk being picked up by a religious maniac , or dropped off in an impenetrable jungle of freeways close to the cocaine-dealing centre of America , or both . |
| 2 | A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) . |
| 3 | Or shovelled off into the Old Folks like me . |
| 4 | She bounded upstairs , her bare feet silent on the cast-iron staircase , and pushed open one of the three identical wooden doors that led off from the galleried landing . |
| 5 | The entrance to her own flat was down one of the narrow corridors that led off from the rectangular landing , and as she stepped towards it she noticed with sudden uneasiness that one of the wall lights halfway down the corridor had gone , plunging the passageway into semi-darkness . |
| 6 | But , there comes a time in every painting when a clean , new brush has to be used to add detail or to control a passage of the work that started off as a spontaneous accident , or alternatively to lay on a clean glaze . |
| 7 | I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant . |
| 8 | At the sound of gunfire the refugee ship turned away and made off round the southern counties and up towards Liverpool , where it was finally recognised as a friendly vessel . |
| 9 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 10 | Darlington was only the second date on the tour and got off to a bad start with a trip from Manchester through freezing fog arriving late and cold . |
| 11 | Duncan had been appalled to find that women had the vote ‘ down South ’ and got off to a shaky start in the motor trade when one of the local spivs conned him into thinking a Pina Colada was the latest model Ford built in Spain . |
| 12 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 13 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 14 | At some point Kāli and I had stopped climbing and branched off to the left : but this was too narrow , an animal track . |
| 15 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 16 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 17 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 18 | She raised her hand as a dubious Herr Nordern forced the car into almost the right gear and drove off with a curious jerking motion , then turned and went into the Centre with a look on her face which boded ill for anyone who crossed her path that day . |
| 19 | He thought she meant she was going straight home and drove off with a sulky smile . |
| 20 | Sean gathered up the reins and drove off at a smart pace . |
| 21 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 22 | As she started back to check if he was hurt , Dan scrambled back on his bike and cycled off with a final red faced look over his shoulder . |
| 23 | " I 'm off home , She waved and cycled off down the High Street . |
| 24 | But alas , alack , someone in Dover took a can-opener to their trusty Sherpa van on Sunday 22nd November and waltzed off with the following : a purple sunburst ESP Horizon 5-string bass in flightcase ; a 1982 Stratocaster in faded cream with ciggie burns on the headstock , also in a flightcase ; a sunburst Telecaster , also with ciggie burns and in a black moulded Fender case ; a 100-watt Marshall Hi-gain Dual Reverb head ; a Roland R-5 drum machine ; an Aztec wireless system in case with Studiomaster mic ; two bags — one ex-army , one sports bag — containing a large assortment of leads , strings , tuners , power supplies etc. , and a home-made pedal-board with a BOSS Stereo Chorus , an Ibanez bass compressor and an Aria stage tuner . |
| 25 | Bank overdraft Flexible borrowing up to a certain ceiling for people with bank accounts , usually without security , and paid off over a few months , but can be extended over several years ; interest , calculated each day on how much the account is overdrawn that day , fluctuates in line with bank base rates ( usually about two per cent higher ) . |
| 26 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 27 | Waggoner quietly got to his feet and walked off down the 17th . |
| 28 | He stood up , flexed his powerful shoulders and having pulled on a jerkin and breeches , went through to the kitchen , ate a hunk of fresh-baked bread and walked off down the steep narrow hill that led between stone cottages to Mother Russell 's alehouse , where the Pascoe girls earned their living . |
| 29 | And then with a final glance to either side he turned and walked off towards the main gate . |
| 30 | Parts are placed into decarbonising tanks and finished off with a compressed air agitated ‘ rinse ’ . |