Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases , so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd . |
| 3 | He 'll need a lot of breath for this lengthy stint , which heads off towards the new year . |
| 4 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 5 | It starts off with the prayer-framed sequence of events up to the point in the narrative when Christ is crowned with thorns and condemned to death , but in a more compressed form . |
| 6 | Stan Bate , his worship the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent , drives off from the first tee to open officially the city 's new municipal golf course at Weston Coyney . |
| 7 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
| 8 | In Rugby Union , Chinnor and Swindon , they 'll be locked in combat in the first round of the Oxfordshire Courage floodlit Cup , and that match kicks off at the southern by-pass ground at seven fifteen . |
| 9 | Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth . |
| 10 | The pink of this species is generally verging on pale purple , and extends from the head in a wedge which tails off to the lower part of the back of the body . |
| 11 | Just why is unclear but follow it and , four miles before Gubbio , a road branches off to the beautiful region of Monte Maggiore . |
| 12 | There are signs of civilisation along here , with a scattering of crofts and farmsteads , and a narrow road branches off to the isolated community of Badluarach , a lonely outpost at the entrance to Little Loch Broom . |
| 13 | Joffe 's pious vision of man 's inhumanity to man all comes together in Pauline Collins ' clinic : it squares off against the local mafia , saves lepers etc . |
| 14 | It finally eases off on the very top of Rudland Rigg , a majestic shoulder of land running north to south , with views right across the moors . |
| 15 | HAMLET , however , continues the movement into an about-turn and walks off in the opposite direction . |
| 16 | Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences . |
| 17 | NEXT Thursday ( 21 February ) , an Ariane rocket lifts off from the European Space Centre in French Guiana to put the second Astra satellite into orbit at 19° East . |
| 18 | That done he lets her go , and with his head over his shoulder turned , he goes out backwards without taking his yes off her … she runs off in the opposite direction . |