Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [v-ing] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 2 | It is a smart little tag , conjuring up images of Monie bootling off to the library . |
| 3 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 4 | The sound of wheels turned in her ears again as she thought of Maman driving off to the railway station as if on some brisk pursuit . |
| 5 | The idea of a small group of men setting off into the desert to travel hundreds of miles behind the enemy lines was not such a hare-brained scheme as might be thought . |
| 6 | In his wake trailed the baptist preacher , his words of comfort drifting off in the wind . |
| 7 | What I saw was principally field upon field rolling off into the far distance . |