Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hard work payed off with a total of 36 units being sold . |
| 2 | Halema handed the incense pot to one of the maids , and the women moved off in a wave of black veiling . |
| 3 | The car drove off with a scream of tyres , and Fran shivered in sudden reaction as she watched him go . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | I got off with a lot of things . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They started off with a chain of accidents , then your dad — ‘ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | Whitlock trailed off with a shake of his head . |
| 12 | But brightness was in short supply as his players trooped off to a crescendo of boos . |
| 13 | Robin Engelman , who coped patiently with the percussion part here , had a marginally less exciting time in Bruce Mather 's Gatinara , where easy-going alternations of viola and marimba once took off in a bout of vigorous hocketing , but not for long . |
| 14 | A shearwater skipped the surface almost under his nose and skittered off with a whip-whip-whip of wings . |
| 15 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 16 | Georgiades , vexed , went off on a search of his own . |
| 17 | The plastic went off with a smack of solid air that stabbed pain into his ears and moved the container next to him . |
| 18 | He went off with a list of ideas , and was later observed totally engrossed , having covered two sides of A4 . |
| 19 | Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around . |
| 20 | We used this door when a ghost came on or went off in a cloud of smoke . |
| 21 | I sneaked a look behind as we went off in a cloud of dust . |
| 22 | The Zeltweg race was , after all , on Niki 's home territory , and when Prost spun off on a patch of oil , the race took on a new perspective for Niki : he found himself in the lead , with Piquet behind him and no threat with badly worn tyres . |
| 23 | The whole thing kicked off with a state of the art video which introduced the T9000 as the ‘ next link in the chain for ranging from supercomputers to database managers , to switching and telecommunications systems , management systems for production lines and car engines . |
| 24 | The match kicked off with a parade of golfers , a display from the Red Arrows in the air and the playing of national anthems that included the German , Spanish , British and one for Uncle Sam . |
| 25 | Together , the three of them removed the boards which formed the trough and the natron ran off in a tide of white powder on to the floor . |
| 26 | She rose and flounced off in a swish of skirts and a whiff of fragrant perfume . |
| 27 | Having come very close to the heart of the matter , Bukharin then slid off into a discussion of the role of workers ’ consumption in the circulation of capital ; all of which is correct , but he failed to explicate the mechanism by which such a disproportionality comes about . |
| 28 | The next day we hired a Panda auto and nipped off for a game of golf , it had been rather warm and on returning Sonya suggested I remove my cerise tweeds and let my cornet Kascade down . |
| 29 | In the winter of 1979–80 the Trannon careered off on a course of its own . |
| 30 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |