Example sentences of "[noun pl] off [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " They 're always like that , gassing their heads off in a public shop . |
| 2 | The eastern bank between Chepstow and Monmouth gets Offa 's Dyke walkers off to a flying start — there 's superb walking high above the river with sensational views . |
| 3 | The other frustration of watching on TV is hearing the low rumble of chatter , unexplained laughter , heckles and shouts , like the noises off in a Russian drama , but being unable to see the source . |
| 4 | McFarland and Adams got the visitors off to a good start putting on 35 for the first wicket . |
| 5 | Another letter in The Times , from Sir Robert Robinson , drew attention to Florey 's work and set enquirers off on a new tack to Oxford , but their journeys turned out to be unrewarding . |
| 6 | Scamp maybe said something to himself then , like ‘ Damn ’ or even ‘ Blast ’ , the sort of thing you would say to yourself when you 'd just missed blowing a policeman 's goolies off with an illegal weapon . |
| 7 | The tournament gets the club 's 40th anniversary celebrations off to a flying start and , with the season just a week away , represents the last chance for the clubs to test their form . |
| 8 | At one gig in Melbourne the crowd invaded the stage in such numbers that LIAM had to stop the show and lead the uninvited participants off in an orderly line . |
| 9 | As well as Hitchcock and Flynn , Mark Gill weighed in with two and Tim McCann rounded things off with a glorious strike minutes from the end . |
| 10 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 11 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 12 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 13 | It would get things off to a good start . |
| 14 | I thought it would get things off to a good start . ’ |
| 15 | Halfway through his talk , the meeting was suddenly interrupted by a cadre of men dressed as prison guards ; these rather realistic toughs burst into the room , grabbed everybody there , and took them out to a set of waiting helicopters , which flew the bewildered executives off to a second meeting site . |
| 16 | Some of our competitors in the north have been er really struggling and erm offering four pounds off on a seven pound fifty entrance fee so bearing that in mind we 're v v very confident that we 've im improved our market share in that area too . |
| 17 | This has been done in a similar fashion to Martin 's approach , where the fret ends are chopped off square and then individually rounded , rather than by running a fret file down the sides of the neck and lopping all the ends off at a 45 degree angle . |
| 18 | one who pretends to have picked up an apparently valuable ( but actually worthless ) ring which he palms off on an unwary buyer . |
| 19 | Before you know it , you 're freezing your boots off in a Siberian labour camp . |
| 20 | Strewing guts about is the same as letting squibs off in a public venue , all comes under Fireworks byelaw . ’ |