Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] off [prep] the [noun] " 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 patch of lights off to the right revealed the presence of a town which slowly orbited them and disappeared into the darkness . |
| 3 | There do exist ways of identifying the boundaries of stretches of discourse which set one chunk of discourse off from the rest . |
| 4 | Er all the clothing you had was provided by yourself , boiler suits , boots er there there was no protective clothing at all , there were no protection for your hearing , er there was no what we called leathers as such for er to save you from getting burned with scales off of the rivets , with burning machines etcetera , there were n't there was absolutely no er protective clothing at all , unless you happened to be able to buy it yourself somewhere . |
| 5 | The flight originated at Navy Dallas , Grand Prairie , Texas , for an IFR cross-country flight to Washington , D.C. The flight crew could not rotate the aircraft for lift off during the takeoff roll on Runway 17 , 8,000 feet in length . |
| 6 | And this policeman , I were coming down Lane off over the hump back bridge . |
| 7 | I asked her to slack off on the ginger a bit |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Unlike the demands for time off from the farm , which is normally at short notice , the request for release for training courses could be made well in advance . |