Example sentences of "[v-ing] off [prep] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He denied UI would be doing this to appease SunSoft and others reportedly unhappy about the situation , and refuted suggestions that SunSoft wants UI 's commitment to use other suppliers and non-USL technologies as a pre-requisite for it signing off on the ABI effort . |
| 2 | The sound of wheels turned in her ears again as she thought of Maman driving off to the railway station as if on some brisk pursuit . |
| 3 | Get your playgroup involved by writing off for the Playweek kit , which contains all kinds of money-making ideas . |
| 4 | And after two or three years of ‘ what seemed like free fall ’ in the early 80s , there has been a significant levelling off in the sales graph and the cost base has been radically improved . |
| 5 | I kept to my itinerary , turning off along the Achiltibuie road , passing below the serrated skyline of Stac Polly , its upper rocks tinged pink as the sun rose over the horizon . |
| 6 | Turning off from the north-south highway some twelve miles north of the Makaa , the track leading to the cabin had been made first by loggers and then improved by a quarrying company some forty years ago . |
| 7 | Ramsay himself did not know this Ettrick Forest area so well as the main Middle and East Marches ; but from the route the usurper had taken from Moffat , it looked as though he was heading either for the mid-Tweed or Teviot dales — although he could have reached the former more easily by turning off in the Broughton area of Tweedsmuir . |
| 8 | The pops and bangs going off around the Porte de Versailles last week signalled a European industry in panic as the date for free access to the European market by the Japanese gets ever closer . |
| 9 | WHAT with car-jackings , smash-and-grab raids and bombs going off in the car park at the World Trade Centre , no wonder American motorists are turning to Bill O'Gara . |
| 10 | so they 're seriously looking to the trunk road network coming down bypass and then going off round the Caernarvon bypass ? |
| 11 | the fastest time down the hill at Eastnor for those that managed to stay on was about one minute. , .16 seconds … the top 16 will be racing off for the champions crown but win or lose … fast or slow … they all seem to enjoy themselves … so what 's the fun of it … |
| 12 | the fastest time down the hill at Eastnor for those that managed to stay on was about one minute. , .16 seconds … the top 16 will be racing off for the champions crown but win or lose … fast or slow … they all seem to enjoy themselves … so what 's the fun of it … |
| 13 | You can express your concerns before heading off to the pop concert . |
| 14 | The Lorrimores , followed by everyone still in the dining room , went dashing off into the dome car , but Emil and I looked at each other , and I said , ‘ How do we warn that train ? ’ |
| 15 | She was always rushing off to the Housing Applicant Office and the interviews took a long time . |
| 16 | Developments in antislavery — both the spread of local associations and the splitting off of the Agency campaign — were portrayed as only occurring when they were functionally necessary and productive of minimal conflict . |
| 17 | He caught a glimpse of Sheldukher who , with his usual instinct for self preservation , was scurrying off with the Cell case tucked under his arm . |
| 18 | I have to go round to the wife of a man — a man ! my best friend ! — whom I have just left trogging off to the tube station ; I have to go round to his wife of six weeks and tell her I love her . |
| 19 | If we 're doing add we 're just starting off with the counting numbers . |
| 20 | HE 'S been running off with the toilet rolls — and viewers ' affections — for 21 years . |
| 21 | Again the problem there is that you get the hot coals , if it 's a solid fuel fire , er dropping off onto the hearth setting fire to the hearth rug . |
| 22 | Perhaps it would have been better to use the subjects as springboards for complete fiction , leaving the pedantic detail — and the risk of libel suits — behind , and taking off into the story-telling stratosphere . |
| 23 | We wasted no time taking off over the rice paddies of Thailand . |
| 24 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 25 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 26 | Visitor numbers at the museum also saw a sharp falling off under the Fuchs administration : of the 200,000 expected in 1991 , only 124,000 materialised . |
| 27 | She saw old Diggory shuffling off to the back regions , the protesting Hector in tow . |
| 28 | She is one of three Guinness people who are setting off on the Raleigh scheme next year — the other two work at Guinness Ireland and at head office in Portman Square . |
| 29 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 30 | At Westons cidermill in Much Marcle , Herefordshire three hundred revellers are setting off for the apple orchards.They 're following in the footsteps of their pagan ancestors in the hopes of ensuring a bumper harvest . |