Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 2 | Pierce finishes off with a ghostly version of the great Skip James ' ‘ Hardtime Killin' Floor Blues ’ , one last acoustic cry before the tape runs out and proof positive that the blues has never been in better hands . |
| 3 | The mammalian heart starts off as a straight tube and then bends , folds , and , together with further growth and subdivision , gives the four chambers that pump the blood . |
| 4 | In the Godfather , Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy . |
| 5 | An unborn child starts off as a tiny sphere , soon begins to look like a minute hamburger ( complete with bun ) , and finally adopts the form of a large-headed , small-limbed human being . |
| 6 | The first is a surface sore which starts off as a red mark . |
| 7 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 8 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 9 | The ideal LAN workstation starts off with a worthwhile degree of poke ( fast 386 with 4Mb of RAM ) and is upgradeable ( OverDrive socket or daughterboard , spare SIMM slots , easily uprated video ) . |
| 10 | The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching . |
| 11 | The event tees off with an 18-hole game , followed in the afternoon by an 18-hole medal competition for the Campbell Dawson Trophy . |
| 12 | Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth . |
| 13 | Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace . |
| 14 | Before she is finally arrested , she shoots a number of them , and lobs a grenade into the wings , where it goes off with a loud report . |
| 15 | So if your mains goes off through an electrical storm or something |
| 16 | Have you ever noticed the response when a car alarm goes off in a busy street ? |
| 17 | May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians . |
| 18 | PREMIER LEAGUE KICKS OFF WITH A BIG RIP-OFF |
| 19 | Channel 4 are showing a season of eight of his films , starting tonight with the superb Oscar-nominated Cyrano de Bergerac ( 9pm , see Today 's Highlights and the Film Guide ) , and that kicks off with an hour-long look at the man , his private life and his celluloid career . |
| 20 | The first part of the walk kicks off up a private road gliding beneath a fabulous railway viaduct , the very one from which I had gazed in my bike-less train down the length of Loch Shiel for the first time some ten years earlier . |
| 21 | The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course . |
| 22 | Myself ’ trips off into an extended Twin Peaks -ish slither of pacifying , blissful techno-tasting house . |
| 23 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 24 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 25 | The groundswell in ‘ Chopin ’ is more urgent than usual , more truly agitato , the final march takes off at a cracking pace , and earlier Cortot , in common with Rachmaninov , includes ‘ Sphinxes ’ , a witty addition and an amusingly dour presence among the clowns and dreamers of Schumann 's masked ball . |
| 26 | The situation in the traditional poem , as exemplified by Sidney , is an I — She one , where the pronouns reveal the gap between the lover and his mistress ; in Donne , as I have shown elsewhere , l it is an I-Thou , and above all a We/Us/Our relationship , where the lovers exist , after the consummation , as a unit , a model to others , from which point Donne 's wit takes off in a brilliant sequence of rhetorical strategies . |
| 27 | The lottery will create at least 52 new millionaires each year , and possibly more if the weekly draw takes off in a big way . |
| 28 | Olympia 's new ‘ Belorussian Series ’ gets off to a cracking start with a pair of discs , one featuring the music of Dmitry Smolsky ( ) , the other , Yevgeni Glebov ( ) . |
| 29 | SAGITTARIUS- THE year gets off to a cracking start for Sagittarians : The eclipse on December 9 , 1992 was the first of four to exert a powerful effect on your life — especially if your birthday falls between November 22 and December 11 . |
| 30 | That way , the conference gets off to a good start because people are raring to go and in the right frame of mind . |