Example sentences of "off on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 2 | Ironically , the hostel was charging so much in rent that while I did have to stay there , I was better off on the dole with the housing people picking up the bill than in cleaning work and having to pay it myself . |
| 3 | Later , when I was a city detective in the early 1960s , we again used clothing to mark off our separation and dirty , ragged tramps shuffling off to shelter in rubble-filled dens under the Tyne Bridge would become a referent to our despised neighbours : ‘ look [ we would point ] there 's a Gateshead detective hurrying off on the scent … |
| 4 | Varnishes can be used direct from the container if the diameter is large enough for the brush being used , but it is better to pour the varnish into a paint kettle which has a wire stretched across the middle , so that excess varnish can be scraped off on the wire . |
| 5 | That privilege , and the airs and presumption that went with it , are still resented ; and some of the resentment has rubbed off on the poet . |
| 6 | It happened shortly after 500 athletes set off on the Rowntree Athletic Club 's 10-mile road race at the weekend . |
| 7 | THIS MORNING at 7am , 1,250 pairs of arms will churn the warm blue water of the Pacific into foam as the competitors set off on the first , swimming stage of the 11th Ironman Triathlon on and around the little resort of Kailua-Kona here . |
| 8 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 9 | I used to rub it off on the way to school . |
| 10 | Especially when you 're starting off on the right foot like you and Marilyn . |
| 11 | He 's stopping off on the road , he 'll be in in the morning , I … ’ |
| 12 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 13 | I 've encountered Arena -reading Young Conservatives who get off on The Smiths and Sex Pistols : I knew a girl whose favourite group is The Jam but who claims to be apolitical and whose one great desire in life is a Mercedes . |
| 14 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |
| 15 | He and Pam had taken off on the very day the fair ended — a fact that did not go unnoticed by the locals . |
| 16 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 17 | Those who could not escape put in a token appearance , showing themselves before the delegates from their local constituency association and then scuttling off on the first train back to civilization . |
| 18 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 19 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
| 20 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 21 | Try to get off on the right foot ? ’ |
| 22 | I thought I was off on the usual , rather tedious type of assignment ! |
| 23 | Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer . |
| 24 | He stood up abruptly , and without explanation or offer of assistance , set off on the descent to the factory floor . |
| 25 | Too often his reputation as an architect has been written off on the basis of very late works which were more the work of his nephew , MacVicar Anderson , and his chief clerk , Colling , under his direction . |
| 26 | Constantly at war with my vertigo , I decided not to be pathetic and strode off on the flat , step-like slabs that top the crest of the ridge . |
| 27 | However , Jacques Etienne never forgot his Hebridean origins and in 1826 set off on the long , difficult journey to his father 's home at Howbeg . |
| 28 | He stupidly took off on the outside of a wave when someone else had already established priority on the inside . |
| 29 | Liam McNamara ( a North Shore surfer riding a Willis Phazer ) took off on the first , followed by Tony Moniz ( another local ) on the second and Carroll on the third . |
| 30 | The Land Rover dropped me off on the edge of the town , surprisingly on a tarmac road , and I arranged to meet the lads nine miles further on . |