Example sentences of "[vb past] off the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN PERKINS , the Pontypool coach , got off the players ' bench at Rodney Parade to have a ‘ quiet word ’ with some rowdy fans during his side 's 10–10 draw with Newport . |
| 2 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 3 | ’ He checked off the targets as they flared . |
| 4 | Woolley checked off the names all the way down her spine . |
| 5 | So when , when they sold off the buildings , they made us no inclination that the was gon na farm it , he was in another job ? |
| 6 | Operation ‘ Winch ’ was launched on 3 April when two Skuas led off the Hurricanes in two flights of six each . |
| 7 | FIVE people were killed and 33 injured when a packed train skidded off the rails and spun into trees yesterday . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As the floor levelled off the lights flickered and came up , the engine noise settling down to a steady background roar . |
| 10 | The noise of conversation from the hall below bounced off the walls around them . |
| 11 | The rest of the session , including Summerchild 's confession , or his heroic refusal to confess , has broadcast itself about the little attic room , bounced off the walls , been absorbed in the carpet , faded to silence and passed out of history . |
| 12 | Liverpool captain Wright lunged into a tackle but the ball bounced off the legs of Spain 's masterful midfield star Martin Vasquez . |
| 13 | Rain bounced off the steps at the café 's doorway . |
| 14 | White burst clear , but his shot cannoned off the legs of the experienced Barcelona keeper Zubizaretta . |
| 15 | She drew off the boots and put them , lolling side by side , as it were breathing together , before she stuffed them full of tissue-paper to keep their shape . |
| 16 | All the biggest words rose off the stones towards him : mother , love , father , memory , son , heaven . |
| 17 | ‘ I warded off the blows that were struck at me and Sir Oswald did the same . |
| 18 | Loyalist opposition was minimal ; Major Ronald Bunting 's Loyal Citizens of Ulster had threatened a counter-demonstration but this was banned by Minister of Home Affairs William Craig , and the RUC sealed off the stairways to the top of the walls and erected barriers which would prevent any clash . |
| 19 | Yeah oh yes he oh and he was erm being better educated than the majority of people in the Pleck he used to stand outside the Brown Lion to read the newspaper out to them cos they could n't read , and he attended all the weddings , all the funerals and er made the wills out and he almost was the father confessor for the Pleck , and when the old steam tram came off the lines down in the Pleck , when there was a steam train coming through there , he was the man who put it on the rails again . |
| 20 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 21 | Medieval travellers usually had to pick a way over boggy ground as they came off the hills . |
| 22 | And that was where er , a train came off the railways when it hit a van on |
| 23 | The ball came off the studs on his boot . |
| 24 | It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England . |
| 25 | Yeah , erm I er , I 'd given up erm about se seven weeks ago , and I was told that it was an anti-depressant and when I came off the cigarettes it was just terrible ! |
| 26 | The only problem was the stitch each side of the tucked stitch came off the needles at the same time . |
| 27 | They drove off the parliamentarians they scattered across the field . |
| 28 | ‘ Really , I played off the monitors . |
| 29 | So I just played off the monitors . |
| 30 | Giving herself a mental shake , she threw off the thoughts . |