Example sentences of "[vb base] off [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell you another thing , whatever the Spitting Images say about John he pays his money , he does n't grab his bermuda shorts and a wristwatch and fly off to the sunny islands . |
| 2 | To set your foundation and eliminate any shine , pat loose powder lightly all over your face and dust off with a big brush . |
| 3 | We all head off into the bloody storm , and then this whole horror comic gets sorted out when we 're back in the real world . |
| 4 | It 's not only the alcohol that 's suffered from self-enforced cutbacks : the Franks ( ironically enough ) used to be a Martini band — any gig , any town , any night , they 'd pack their guitars and socks and head off into the Tranzophobic sunset , until exhaustion fully reared its head and the heart decided that home was definitely the place to be . |
| 5 | There 's a rigourous routine of hard practice before the party from the Dragon School in Oxford head off for the African continent . |
| 6 | I sometimes head off to a certain place . |
| 7 | Two of London 's top match teams head off on a magic mystery tour this Sunday with the historic London AA Shield as their goal . |
| 8 | Top off with a concrete mix to fix the supports securely |
| 9 | To subscribe to ELT Journal , simply fill in the form on the back of this leaflet and send it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 10 | Make sure that you receive all four issues of the 1993 volume by filling out the form on the back of this leaflet and sending it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf , or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 11 | Instead , preceding even the title page is the injunction ‘ Immediately after buying this book , send off for the eight mail order catalogues listed on p.357 ’ . |
| 12 | You could tackle the island 's one and only hill south of Es Calo , stop off for a welcome break at El Mirador and as you cool off with an iced drink , take in the panoramic view . |
| 13 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 14 | At 11.15 a.m. the 29 enthusiastic players teed off from a few tees . |
| 15 | It is also taking a 49.9% stake in Swedish food company Bake Off for an undisclosed sum . |
| 16 | And you go out and do the same thing again and you 're getting le let off for the same thing all the time and you think you 're going to get away with it all the time . |
| 17 | They had organized a decoy system whereby Carolyn drove Diana 's car to entice her press pursuers away and then Diana would emerge from Coleherne Court and walk off in the other direction . |
| 18 | When nuclear family segments break off from the joint family for one reason or another , the values of the joint family nevertheless continue to plague them . |
| 19 | When trodden on , these spines puncture flesh and usually break off inside the resulting wounds , ensuring the prolonged insertion of the painful poisons . |
| 20 | Aid workers say Central Bosnia , cut off for the first time this Winter by the war between Croats and Muslims , is facing a humanitarian catastrophe . |
| 21 | Rescue services arrived to find the men had abandoned their boat which was sinking and were stranded on rocks cut off by a rising tide . |
| 22 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 23 | When I remarked on this to the doctor 's wife , she explained that the town was under virtual siege , cut off from the central government . |
| 24 | Cut off from the outside world , the Spaniard needed an intimate social life and the interest it supplied to conversation . |
| 25 | The two of us stand next to his second hole unable to distinguish sky and lake and cut off from the other pair . |
| 26 | The French soldiers , cut off from the other guests both linguistically and emotionally , spoke only amongst themselves , occasionally voluble , more often morose . |
| 27 | High among the bright snows of the Crystal Mountain , cut off from the immediate claims and responsibilities of life in time in the twentieth century , Matthiessen experiences a joy at the heart of the created order to which he belongs , a oneness with it . |
| 28 | On the one hand we can see it as a master stroke of the Devil : Christians and humans everywhere have been forced into private enclaves cut off from the public world and each other . |
| 29 | But when Neill rows to investigate , he is astonished to see his yacht , complete with his wife and dog , sail off in the opposite direction with the unhinged Zane at the wheel . |
| 30 | Now is the time to make a clean sweep of all the jobs you put off during the bad weather . |