Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stage 4 is the familiar multiplier , only this time triggered off by a change in imports and exports . |
| 2 | The hard work payed off with a total of 36 units being sold . |
| 3 | Halema handed the incense pot to one of the maids , and the women moved off in a wave of black veiling . |
| 4 | Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea . |
| 5 | He talked about the murder victim sprawled across the pavement , and then wandered off into a conversation about a comedian called Ken Dodd . |
| 6 | The car drove off with a scream of tyres , and Fran shivered in sudden reaction as she watched him go . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd say he was a transit airline passenger on a refuelling stop who got off his aeroplane , changed into a pair of overalls in the toilet , drove off with a van-load of baggage , took what he wanted and was back on his plane well within the time his flight was called , to continue his journey without even going through customs . |
| 8 | Frankie arrived back by himself about an hour later and drove off without a word to anybody . |
| 9 | POLICE were today examining an arms find after a car turned back and drove off from a checkpoint on the outskirts of Belfast last night . |
| 10 | While Liz was nibbling pistachio nuts , surveying dominions , Shirley , hot , red and angry ( but not appearing to be angry ) was listening yet once more to her mother-in-law 's description of her digestive system and what the doctor had said about the swelling of her legs , a commentary which followed closely upon her complaints about the absence of her two older grandchildren who had ( in Shirley 's view very wisely ) buggered off to a disco at Maid Marian 's Nitespot . |
| 11 | Leith blanked off for a moment as , with sinking spirits , she felt it would be a wonder if Sebastian found himself free to return to pay something off his mortgage the Christmas after next , let alone this coming one . |
| 12 | after a swift , furtive glance at them , jumped the ditch on the other side of the lane and made off at a run over the fen . |
| 13 | Maggie was about to protest that talking to Roger and Luke did not qualify as lurking , but Roger made off with a bottle in each hand and Luke had vanished again . |
| 14 | I got off with a lot of things . |
| 15 | United got off to a flyer with Richard Hill giving them a lead after just eight minutes . |
| 16 | Oxford United got off to a flyer at Notts County thanks to a goal after only eight minutes from Nick Cusack … |
| 17 | In the 3rd division Hereford got off to a flyer against Chesterfield at Edgar Street . |
| 18 | Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away . |
| 19 | When James asked his brother Nicholas for-a turn on his new bike , Nicholas got off and helped James on to the bike — but his mother made no comment , and James rode off without a word of thanks . |
| 20 | She stalked off like a scarecrow in a rage . |
| 21 | nipples ripped off by a doberman on acid ? |
| 22 | Our official town doctor Rozanov , himself an accoucheur , declared quite positively that on one occasion when a patient in labour was screaming and calling on the name of the Almighty , a free-thinking sally fired off like a pistol-shot by Mrs Virginsky struck such fear into the patient that delivery was greatly accelerated . |
| 23 | On the last day of the Centenary Test of 1980 , Arlott signed off as a commentator in a much more formal setting . |
| 24 | Zooshing a citrus scent over an ultra-floral one finished off with a spritz of something exotic and musky before tonight 's hot date , may leave your man more bewildered than bewitched by clashing notes battling for supremacy behind your earlobes . |
| 25 | Mr Yeltsin secured the required number of votes in his third attempt in four days , just as President Gorbachov flew off for a visit to Canada prior to his summit with President Bush in America . |
| 26 | After a quick discussion on the phone with the participants , Kevin flew off in a helicopter to all corners of the country to cook miraculous meals . |
| 27 | First of all you started off with a reference to P P G twelve , and I fear my pen was n't fast enough to note down the paragraph number , perhaps you could remind me ? |
| 28 | They started off with a chain of accidents , then your dad — ‘ |
| 29 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 30 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |