Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age , when the pace of life was slow , when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers , in vast numbers , worked that land . |
| 2 | ‘ But why so many British ladies ? ’ asked the young German student bemusedly as 60–odd enthusiasts of all ages tumbled off the coach at the Medau College in Coburg . |
| 3 | Jenjin paced off the new line , marked it , and offered his bow to Yuan . |
| 4 | He sat down suddenly as the truck bounced off the bank again . |
| 5 | ONE man was killed and another seriously injured yesterday when their car skidded off the road and plunged down an embankment into a tree at a popular beauty spot . |
| 6 | Woolley checked off the names all the way down her spine . |
| 7 | In the final confrontation between Willard and Kurtz , the latter contends that the Viet Cong are more successful because they are more ruthless , citing an incident ( also unsupported by evidence ) where the Viet Cong lopped off the arms of children who had been inoculated by the Americans . |
| 8 | Jekub bounced off the track and rolled over the cold grass . |
| 9 | Four were hurt when their car crashed off the A66 on the westbound carriageway near the Elton turn-off just outside Stockton . |
| 10 | All the biggest words rose off the stones towards him : mother , love , father , memory , son , heaven . |
| 11 | The car bounced off the wall and came toward me . |
| 12 | If none of the light bounced off the electron into the microscope there would be nothing to see . |
| 13 | The light bounced off the river and dazzled her . |
| 14 | It was over in a second , Barnett cannoned off the flattened front of the vehicle then tumbled down the road coming to rest in an inert heap . |
| 15 | Lights blazing , their car cannoned off the kerb , tyres squealing in protest , then they were roaring along the alley . |
| 16 | She 's only just gone down , after givin' me her life story and what 'appened at her granddad 's funeral when a wheel came off the 'earse . |
| 17 | A tractor and trailer was being driven across the bridge , when a wheel came off the tractor and it veered through the stone parapet . |
| 18 | At their first major encounter , Emperor Yazdegird came off the better . |
| 19 | I managed to hold the aircraft straight for a short distance , running on the nosewheel which , luckily , had escaped damage , but as the speed came off the aircraft slewed sharply left and I came to a slithering , steaming halt about 200 metres the other side of the dyke , well off the runway . |
| 20 | The following year Edward warded off the papal demand for payment by invoking his obligation — in matters affecting the crown — to consult his parliament , the meeting of which on this occasion was unavoidably delayed . |
| 21 | When Scott came off the ship , a newspaper man walked up to him . |
| 22 | The only problem was the stitch each side of the tucked stitch came off the needles at the same time . |
| 23 | Then , shortly after the British Task Force arrived off the Falkland Islands , there was another reference to the Santa Maria del Sud : |
| 24 | How Brazil 's new president turned off the money |
| 25 | As Kevin Brown and his agent slithered off the rim of the high ground and into the woodland , he drew a small radio from his pocket and spoke quietly and urgently for several seconds . |
| 26 | Electricity supplies were disrupted and scores of cars slithered off the roads . |
| 27 | In addition , they promised , we 'd at last learn the real reason why Bobby Orton walked off the field against Burnhope . |
| 28 | Ever since the record industry walked off the dancefloor , disco has been in a constant state of revival . |
| 29 | But they 're not , but over next ten seasons they only pay , they get hundred pound knocked off the season ticket . |
| 30 | When Levi walked off the 15th green , somebody told him , ‘ Watson 's gon na get you . ’ |