Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It finally eases off on the very top of Rudland Rigg , a majestic shoulder of land running north to south , with views right across the moors . |
| 2 | This will be by far the longest record for any society , a record which now breaks off in the 1880s . |
| 3 | So at one extreme you 've got the explorer who simply goes off into the unknown . |
| 4 | The road for the tunnel here bears off to the left and rises up along the glorious valley of Aragnouet , half pasture , half pine woods , past a road leading off to another new ski station , at Piau-Engaly . |
| 5 | Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth . |
| 6 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |