Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The years of abundance in America began in 1950 with the defence expenditure triggered off by the Korean War , and the boom continued with only a hiccup or two of recession in 1954 and 1958 . |
| 2 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 3 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 4 | We needed a compass bearing to ensure we headed off in the right direction , a reminder that even a ‘ valley ’ walk can land the unwary in difficulties . |
| 5 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |
| 7 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 8 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 9 | The cart moved off along the bumpy road towards the rocky mountains in the distance . |
| 10 | A ministerial statement issued after the killings claimed that , on parking the car , the three moved off toward the Spanish border where they were challenged by the security forces . |
| 11 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 12 | Yet Lankester often ignored this warning in his own work , and suggested that all forms of life can be ranked into grades defined by the point at which they branched off from the main line of progress towards humankind . |
| 13 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 14 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 15 | From then there would be seven hours of golf , from the moment the first pro drove off till the final putt dropped on the 18th green . |
| 16 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 17 | It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw . |
| 18 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
| 19 | " I 'm off home , She waved and cycled off down the High Street . |
| 20 | With a winning smile at a rather bemused young man , she dragged him up to dance , and every time she saw Feargal she made off in the opposite direction . |
| 21 | Middlesbrough full back Gary Parkinson limped off in the final minute with an ankle injury . |
| 22 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 23 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 24 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 25 | Dyson got off on the wrong foot with Morris from the very beginning , even though Morris politely stopped writing while Bob introduced them , and sat back in his chair to look at Dyson . |
| 26 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 27 | That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot . |
| 28 | Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 . |
| 29 | If you 're looking for ground-breaking mayhem , you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop . |
| 30 | But this year it was Cairngorm , further east , which got off to the flying start . |