Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The walk follows a winding road out of Ballycastle for a short while , but it is worth branching off at the sign for Kinbane Castle . |
| 2 | And before you know it you 're packing your case and ironing your spotty frocks , ready for jetting off into the sun . |
| 3 | The small swimming pool is perfect for cooling off under the force of the midday sun , and the snack bar serves a great range of food into the early hours of the morning . |
| 4 | After stripping off in a Levi 's ad and Thelma & Louise , Brad Pitt has been hailed as the new James Dean , a sex symbol for the Nineties . |
| 5 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
| 6 | The dog he had raised from a pup went missing 31 days ago after running off on a country walk . |
| 7 | A MAN was killed when his hanglider plunged into the sea after taking off from a 100ft cliff at Holywell Bay , near Newquay , north Cornwall . |
| 8 | DEVASTATION The hellish scene faced by emergency services in Amsterdam last night when a huge El Al jumbo jet ripped through suburban apartment blocks after losing two of its four engines soon after taking off from the city |
| 9 | Cairns , convinced an earlier declaration could have given Notts a chance of victory , at one stage squatted in mid-pitch with his head in his hands and was only directed back to the middle after setting off for the pavilion . |
| 10 | A yachtsman has been reunited with his wife — five months after setting off on a voyage which should have lasted just four weeks . |
| 11 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 12 | Seedlings of Platypodium elegans ( Leguminosae ) also in central America die of damping off as a function of distance from the mother in their first year , when the mortality rate can be up to 81% . |
| 13 | I think of dashing off to the loo to drink it but I decide to wait . |
| 14 | In charge of flying off on the carrier was Wg.Cdr . |
| 15 | ‘ My lady , you are n't thinking of running off with a pedlar ? ’ |
| 16 | If she had had any sense she would still be in London , planning her next social function with her friends , instead of slinking off to the south of France because she had felt claustrophobic , because she needed to formulate a way of telling her fiancé that their engagement was off . |
| 17 | Do you often feel like dozing off during the day when you need to be awake ? |
| 18 | But before he thinks about drifting off to the sun , Biggins wants another taste of cup glory . |
| 19 | Make a hitch with the tarred string around the stake adjacent to the top of the sacking collar , lock knot it between stake and stem , and leave 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) hanging ( you will need this for tying off at the end ) . |
| 20 | Go past High Close youth hostel before branching off to the right on to a path which goes around the lower slopes of Loughrigg Fell to Rydal village ( 2.5 miles ) . |
| 21 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale completed two key close season signings before jetting off for a week 's break in Greece yesterday . |
| 22 | He then grabbed all her feathers and threw them in the gutter before storming off in the direction of the Black Bull . |
| 23 | Slide both thumbs apart and , when you reach the temples , finish with a little circular flourish before gliding off at the hairline ( see Fig. 13 ) . |
| 24 | How will we keep food from going off without the use of refrigerators ? |
| 25 | There was no point in going off like a stone from a catapult . |
| 26 | You can express your concerns before heading off to the pop concert . |
| 27 | But more to the point she also hopes her children will be able to get a good education before heading off into the world . |
| 28 | Four of the Night Owls Swimming Club , based at Templemore Avenue Pool , were having a ‘ splashing ’ time before heading off on a club trip to Donaghadee following a successful fund raising effort recently which brought in over £1 , for a local charity . |
| 29 | After Peter Russell had slotted over a neat dropped goal on the Dungannon 22 , McGarry , before going off with a nose injury swung the game again in Dungannon 's favour with his final penalty of the match . |
| 30 | I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front . |