Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply . |
| 2 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply or at the project 's on/off switch . |
| 3 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 4 | Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling . |
| 5 | Penry put out a hand , then dropped it , and with a strangled curse turned away to stride off over the cobbles of the arcade , an arresting figure in the autumn sunlight as he went out into the street without a backward glance for the girl watching him go . |
| 6 | And then I came back on the forth to start off with the stocktaking which is not on the agenda I think . |
| 7 | The vendor 's company may be able to carry earlier losses forward to set off against the gain or if the capital assets were bought by the company only within the past few years , it is possible that there may be a loss rather than a gain . |