Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] off [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also has three good , markedly dissimilar towns in Bayonne , Biarritz and Saint-Jean-de-Luz ; and a little inland , mercifully , a motorway from France into northern Spain which drains off from the coast the nuisance of merely transient cars and people . |
| 2 | Keep to the bottom of the small valley rather than following the track which goes off to the left . |
| 3 | The result is an oxygen linkage and a molecule of water which goes off in the sap . |
| 4 | Tepilit is led by the askaris out of the small police station to a waiting van , which drives off down the track in a billowing cloud of dust . |
| 5 | Although well furnished , the annexe rooms , which led off from the rear of the bothy , lacked cosiness because they were so cold . |
| 6 | Almost opposite this is a road which turns off to the right down to Rabaçal ( 64km ) at a height of 1,070m . |
| 7 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 8 | The fourth and fifth relate to a long-standing debate about the purpose of RE — this is the " confessional " approach which starts off from the assumption of the truth of a particular religious viewpoint and seeks to nurture pupils within , or strongly encourage them towards accepting , that viewpoint . |
| 9 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |
| 10 | By his technique , by the force of words and theme , by the disciplined speed of his narrative , he draws us into a fiction which takes off from a foundation of known fact and recognisable truth . |
| 11 | But they also have the possibility of taking a spectacular minor road which branches off to the left , ie south , at Wiggen . |
| 12 | We 'd get to one poem four or five days into the war , or after The Belgrano or Sir Galahad , and then you have ‘ Lie Still ’ … which is sombre , like a tribute , and then the others , like ‘ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ’ , which started off as a camp throwaway as a tango ; but the poems put together with an orchestra gives them much more depth . ’ |
| 13 | It reproduces by releasing single-celled spores which drift off in the sea and grow into new plants . |
| 14 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 15 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |
| 16 | Puzzling over this , I nearly miss a water rail which scuttles off down a drainage ditch towards the loch of Westsandwick . |
| 17 | Sedum spectabile " Autumn Joy " has boldly fleshy shoots with butterfly — attracting pink flowers in late summer which dry off on the plant to orange/brown heads useful for winter decorations . |
| 18 | What starts off as a bit of a laugh could quickly turn into an embarrassing muddle . |
| 19 | Back in January Dallas performed what started off as the demolition and ended up in the annihilation of the Bills ' hopes of making it third time lucky at Superbowl . |