Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the post office there is a clear indication for the turn off to the left , which very soon becomes a forest track that comes out on to a metalled road after 10 minutes walk . |
| 2 | In light of the prohibitive estimates received for the fencing off of the play area and the laying of rubber slabs around the sand pit the nursery staff have decided to go ahead with their own restricted plans . |
| 3 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |
| 4 | At one extreme underthrusting is seen as proceeding for up to 1500 km at the base of the continental crust through the peeling off of the lower part of the lithosphere of the Eurasian Plate ( Fig. 3.22(B) ) . |
| 5 | well they 've got a guest house where they rent , they let five of the rooms off in the summer to such millionaires |
| 6 | There were no lights near by or below him but he could see the lake stretching into the night off to the left , its surface catching the lights of the buildings and city sky over by the edge of the Park . |
| 7 | Your car is parked in the road off to the right . |
| 8 | Well I 've turned the one in the bedroom off for the moment cos if in the daytime if your mum 's up re resting |
| 9 | On this hypothesis one would expect the eastern spit , Sandbanks peninsula in the case of Poole Harbour , to be in a state of decay due to the cutting off of the supply of material by the breach . |
| 10 | She spoke quietly in Greek to the boy , soothing his annoyance at the turning off of the video . |