Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] off [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
| 2 | Women 's increasing commitment to the labour market does not appear to pay off in the way that would be expected if people were actually rewarded according to their ability and effort . |
| 3 | I can literally push the bird out of the tree into a net or a box so I can take it home , because it ca n't see to fly off in the dark . |
| 4 | I would have to go off to the lavatory , come back and start the same scene with a variation . |
| 5 | And if I had to play them today , I 'd have to get off in a room with a record player , probably for a couple of hours and learn them . ’ |
| 6 | It is possible to predict therefore , given the funding pressures of the late 1980 's and early 1990's , that the numbers of successful graduates in the field will start to level off under the influence of market forces , until the next major theoretical advance , or the next rise in the value of those resources which geologists can be of assistance in exploiting . |
| 7 | It is possible to predict therefore , given the funding pressures of the late 1980 's and early 1990's , that the numbers of successful graduates in the field will start to level off under the influence of market forces , until the next major theoretical advance , or the next rise in the value of those resources which geologists can be of assistance in exploiting . |