Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] off [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a light , airy room with some small paintings on the wall and two small clean bedrooms leading off on each side . |
| 2 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 3 | Stiffly , arm in arm , the Brothers walked off towards that place of deprivation which was in a dark gondola jutting below the fortress-monastery into the lonely void . |
| 4 | Motorbikes taking off with ear-shattering roar . |
| 5 | Feeling the pinch : chief executive Jane Tozer ( left ) and marketing manager Jill Warren ( right ) expect potential clients to hold off for some time . |
| 6 | Not all hairs come off in one go however , and you may need to go over sections again and again . |
| 7 | In the meantime the women 's liberation movement was changing rapidly ; expanding , feminists were becoming active in a whole range of trade union activities , setting up women 's centres , refuges for battered wives , all kinds of research , discussion … the group , although it continued to meet , give or take a member or two , for a further four years , was a friendship , a support group of women who had struggled through to political consciousness together , and whose own political allegiances sparked off in many directions : a gay commune , further teaching , trade union organising , membership of one of the numerous revolutionary left-wing groupings which flourished in the seventies , involved in producing feminist journals . |
| 8 | Bad debts written off in previous years but recovered this year amounted to £1,740 . |
| 9 | The US plans to start airdrops towards the end of this week with about two aircraft a day dropping key food and medical supplies to small communities cut off for 10 months . |
| 10 | The helicopters lifted off at 1030 hours . |
| 11 | Subtle metallic sheens and bold black spots and lines set off with red areas of finnage , combine to produce a truly pretty fish . |
| 12 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
| 13 | In their headlong rush they naturally tend to get their corners knocked off at each bounce , so they end up as peculiarly smooth , rounded lumps , the smoothness being the result of mechanical abrasion . |
| 14 | With quality technicians creamed off from other studios , he could make cheap films so that they looked good and brought in a respectable profit . |
| 15 | Lots secured by deposits must have their balances paid off within twenty-four hours . |
| 16 | That traditional patriarchy , two classes walled off from each other yet co-existent , is disturbed by the elevation of a farmhouse into a cottage ornee ‘ with its viranda , French windows , and other prettinesses ’ , for this contends with the great house for the traveller 's eye . |
| 17 | From the Friarfold Vein complicated branch veins run off in all directions in what is called a ribbon deposit . |
| 18 | There were numerous dirt tracks leading off from this road , but she did n't recall seeing it parked in any of them as she passed . |
| 19 | Even the most hardened empiricists start off with some idea of how the system might work . |
| 20 | Some are in a state of imminent collapse and in others , side passages branch off in all directions and shafts can suddenly appear at your feet dropping down hundreds of feet into the darkness . |
| 21 | From the large entrance hall , old oak doors and passages led off to other parts of the house , a large open staircase facing them . |
| 22 | From Scotland Yard , Nigel Cramer and six officers set off in two patrol cars , their sirens howling up Whitehall and down the Mall to pick up Park Lane and the road north out of London . |
| 23 | Although Moscow undertook a trade push in Latin America in the late 1960s ( offering credits of $100 million to Brazil in 1966 , $57 million to Chile in 1967 , $2 million to Colombia and $20 million to Uruguay in 1968 ) and saw its efforts pay off to some extent with a steady increase in turnover between the two regions during the 1970s , the true extent of the Soviet economic presence in Latin America is by no means as great as many observers claim ( see appendix for detailed figures on Soviet trade with Latin America ) . |
| 24 | It 's where you got the er the branch chains coming off of different positions . |
| 25 | Burglars made off with 75 rolls of roofing felt worth £2,300 from business premises on the Yarm Road Industrial Estate , Darlington . |
| 26 | The worst problem is that the combination of silt , moss and leaves , along with a few chippings washed off of flat roof , can cause soakaways to get blocked , thereby reducing the flow at times when it 's needed most . |
| 27 | But this was one of those large , Victorian houses than seem to have endless flights of stairs leading off from each level . |
| 28 | While transit passengers went off on local tours , Ellerman & Bucknall were busy co-ordinating the delivery of 80 tons of supplies and 2,500 tons of fuel to be taken on board . |
| 29 | ‘ A balance … ’ he said softly , then laughed and climbed up out of his seat , making his way down the short gangway , the three servants standing off to one side of him as he passed , their heads bowed low . |
| 30 | Bombs went off on six beaches at once . |