Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] off in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 2 | The friendship broke off in the 1880s . |
| 3 | Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London . |
| 4 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 5 | This might explain why the universe started off in the big bang in almost perfect thermal equilibrium , because thermal equilibrium would correspond to the largest number of microscopic configurations and hence the greatest probability . |
| 6 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | The bomb went off in the public gallery , destroying the visitors ' area and blowing a hole through an external wall . |
| 8 | In Europe the craze for motoring took off in the twenties and thirties , helped in 1931 by the launching of the first cross-Channel ferry specifically designed to carry cars and their passengers . |
| 9 | The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses . |
| 10 | Said Jolosa : ‘ It is bad being the first player sent off in the new league , but I was a marked man from the start . |
| 11 | Professor Breen has suggested that the American consumer market took off in the 1740s . |
| 12 | ‘ Plancius ’ was anchored some way offshore because of shallow water and reefs , so when the first party went off in the inflatable , we could see no land at all and had to steer by compass . |