Example sentences of "[vb past] off at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 3 | If you 're looking for ground-breaking mayhem , you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop . |
| 4 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 5 | Ursula and Gianni got off at the next station but one , having brought their growing mutual admiration to a startling climax wedged solid among the rocking mass of sober commuters . |
| 6 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 7 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 8 | Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped |
| 9 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 10 | Elizabeth , knowing her mother was a bad sailor , cried off at the last moment , claiming she was tired — she was surprised at the laughter that raised — and as she expected , her mother took the chance to stay behind with her . |
| 11 | Another man who ran off at the same time , Stephen O'Mara , was yesterday still on the run . |
| 12 | ’ His voice faltered off at the frightened look on Maeve 's face . |
| 13 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |