Example sentences of "[vb base] off [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There 's a rigourous routine of hard practice before the party from the Dragon School in Oxford head off for the African continent . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Cut off from the outside world , the Spaniard needed an intimate social life and the interest it supplied to conversation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now is the time to make a clean sweep of all the jobs you put off during the bad weather . |
| 16 | These branch off from the main artery , called the aorta , and then divide into lots of smaller branches which are all over the surface of the heart . |
| 17 | Small wonder , then , that a lot of resentment and guilt rub off on the social worker himself or herself ; and that , when opportunity arises for public shouts of , " No better than we are ! " , it may be seized upon with a fine disregard for logic in expiation of sins which might be regarded in others as excusable . |
| 18 | They come close to enjoining all scientists to refuse to engage in military research but then back off at the last moment . |
| 19 | They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd . |
| 20 | I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground . |
| 21 | The double sweep 1 : both fighters square off in the right stance . |
| 22 | We kick off with the British Killifish Association . |
| 23 | unc Now finish off in the usual way . |
| 24 | There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure . |
| 25 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 26 | When the seeds drop off from the flowering spike , they should be left in the tank to float for a few days . |
| 27 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 28 | ‘ I would like to go back now , ’ she announced , and they set off down the grassy path in the scented April darkness , back to The Gantry . |
| 29 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 30 | She had no idea why she suddenly looked back , as they set off across the level turf that stretched above that mysterious underworld of brick-built labyrinths . |