Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 2 | But this year it was Cairngorm , further east , which got off to the flying start . |
| 3 | He 'll need a lot of breath for this lengthy stint , which heads off towards the new year . |
| 4 | The first is a surface sore which starts off as a red mark . |
| 5 | Col. and Mrs Travers in Shiplake had a team of thirty , or so , helpers for their Garden Party , which started off with a magnificent anonymous donation of £300 . |
| 6 | Hopefully Hereford are on the way up after beating Doncaster … good win this … a good performance which kicked off with an early goal from Owen Pickard … |
| 7 | For Scottish couple Annie and Lachlan Stewart , what started off as a fun Christmas exhibition in their London home has led to a flourishing tartan ceramics business and the relocation of their company , ANTA , to the north of Scotland . |
| 8 | What started off as a local sale ended up to prove very beneficial for all the Medical Services branches . |