Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a 500 you 're really only washing a bit of speed off with the front . |
| 2 | A crash of musketry off to the right flank betrayed that the farms to the west were under attack , but here in the centre , where the road led enticingly to the crossroads , the enemy was still hidden . |
| 3 | There do exist ways of identifying the boundaries of stretches of discourse which set one chunk of discourse off from the rest . |
| 4 | A patch of lights off to the right revealed the presence of a town which slowly orbited them and disappeared into the darkness . |
| 5 | These do not seem like promising beginnings : English was merely to be an extra accomplishment for young middle-class women — a ‘ convenient sort of non-subject to palm off on the ladies ’ as Eagleton puts it ; and a substitute for a classical education for the discontented working classes . |