Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] off [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
| 2 | But as the complex and delicate process unravelled , with hormones triggered off like the unlocking of a set of combination locks in a vast bank vault , it emerged how unlike a precious gem the ovum is . |
| 3 | Meetings could be banned and the townships sealed off in the event of new disturbances . |
| 4 | He shuddered and looked away , his eyes going off to the horizon . |
| 5 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 6 | 156 cars set off on the rally on Sunday . |
| 7 | The Shah had made a showplace of his country with his colossal purchasing of weapons , and look what it had all come to : ‘ If you drive from Shiraz to Isfahan even today you 'll see hundreds of helicopters parked off to the right of the highway . |
| 8 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 9 | Sometimes quite large ‘ solid ’ blocks break off from the flow , with the same kind of clean fracture , and then , since they are still very hot , continue to flow slightly ! |
| 10 | Shoes came off in the water . |
| 11 | Mortimer did n't answer , however , and he and the Marines trotted off down the tunnel , bayonets fixed and rounds in the chambers . |
| 12 | I thought it a bit extreme to take the unit off as I 've found a much simpler way of stopping this problem of the springs sounding off in the back . |
| 13 | The huge ammunition wagons set off for the crossroads , their massive iron-rimmed wheels digging great gouges into the road 's surface . |
| 14 | Performance has to be exciting enough to make the boat attractive , but it has to be something that lighter and less experienced crews starting off in the class can handle . |
| 15 | But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources . |
| 16 | The anniversary of that incident was ‘ celebrated ’ on May 9 last month when firebombs went off in the shopping mall of The Galleries shopping centre at Bristol , at the opposite end of the country . |
| 17 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 18 | WHAT with car-jackings , smash-and-grab raids and bombs going off in the car park at the World Trade Centre , no wonder American motorists are turning to Bill O'Gara . |
| 19 | Can he assure me that the woodlands sold off by the commission will be accessible to all walkers , especially as after the next election a lot of Scottish Labour Members will have a lot of time to do a lot of walking ? |
| 20 | People pushed and shoved , stared at his madder lake suit , trousers cut off at the knee . |
| 21 | When the noise died down a signal gun was fired and five boats pushed off from the shore and began the race . |
| 22 | The Ruff-stuff 's tracks swept off to the right so we kept walking to the left . |
| 23 | The two groups set off across the desert westwards towards Ghadames . |
| 24 | I just do not know what aircraft this was , I had never seen such a type before , but he made a very cautious circuit and then to my amazement an approach to land despite the red Very lights pooped off from the control tower . |
| 25 | The dots represent the angles at which pigeons flew off from the release site : the direction home is straight up ; straight down represents 180° away from home . |
| 26 | And she sang a few bars into the mouthpiece , swaying a little , watching the lights go off in the theatre . |
| 27 | So that when they sit facing each other on either side of their fire-place , both grins take off in the direction of the mantelpiece , as if drawn by the draught . |
| 28 | Jeez , it looks like all the players and wives nip off down the bank for a quick gas up north . |
| 29 | In other words , these are ritualised displays triggered off by the stimulus of ‘ predator-near-nest ’ . |
| 30 | On these occasions the gloves came off as the Service most adversely affected sought support in Parliament , in the media , from industry , and from the electorate , in what it saw as its fight for survival . |