Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] off at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The princess , in a royal purple suit-dress , pushed on in front to sign the visitors ' book while the prince wandered off at the end , leaving his wife in his wake . |
| 2 | Erm now Alton for example started off at the beginning of the year with four and they 're now at thirty three very s very impressive how much they , them will succeed I do n't know but some other good news on that front is that erm the average age of our consultants overall is now thirty one , whereas three years ago it was twe below twenty one . |
| 3 | The truck took us to where the Imlil-Toubkal road branched off at the market town of Asni and there we swapped to the normal ‘ shared taxis ’ into Marrakech for a merry night at the Hotel Ali — famous for its buffet dinners and the starting point for many adventures . |
| 4 | Thomas Hardy described ‘ the Bollard ’ as ‘ the cliff rounded off at the top in vegetation like a forehead with low-grown hair ’ . |
| 5 | She had been strangled and her long fair hair shorn off at the scalp . |
| 6 | Now Faldo and his European colleagues can only wait and see if the hard work and application pays off at the weekend . |
| 7 | A TEENAGER had his arm ripped off at the shoulder by a cement mixer yesterday . |