Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noel has cleared off with the one-man tent . |
| 2 | Two years later , his dedication to keeping the show on the road has paid off with the new £8 million film The Muppet Christmas Carol , which opens in Britain this week starring Michael Caine as Scrooge . |
| 3 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 4 | ‘ Contacts at professional and academic level , seminars , familiarisation with techniques , will build up a rapport which tends to pay off in the long run , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The cliffs themselves are banted back in order to make them safe from rock falls and so forth , but they , they do still suffer from weathering attack by rain , by frost , and the combination of salt from spray and frost is quite damaging , so that anybody who walks along the undercliff knows that in winter , for example , you tend to get a sludge of erm white erm finely divided wet chalk which sledges off erm cliff , particularly those people in recent years who 've walked behind the marina , where it no longer gets washed off by the high tide erm where Brighton Corporation have to keep trying to remove it . |
| 6 | Although Simmel is quoted , there is none of the subtlety of his analysis of the necessary contradictions of industrial society , and the emphasis on goals of happy homes and cohesive families appears cut off from the wider realms of social action . |
| 7 | In a cross wind it almost always pays to turn off to the down wind side first . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's got off by the blonde one in the wig , anyway ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's gone off to the High Court , sir . ’ |